Overview
In this role you will own and optimise delivery schedules to support series and development programs, balancing demand with supply while keeping inventory within targets. You will lead a team in a high-pressured environment, driving governance, lean practices, and on-time delivery. You will collaborate with purchasing, material planning, and manufacturing to mitigate risks and implement cost-saving process improvements. This position offers a chance to scale logistics capabilities as McLaren expands its programs and volumes. You will operate with strategic focus while delivering tangible improvements to production readiness and supply stability.
Pay / Benefits
- Structured career development framework
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- Enhanced company pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Private medical insurance and health plan
- Life assurance benefit/policy,
Responsibilities
- Drive business cases to implement new processes and own their implementation with metrics
- Provide total ownership of planning activities and deliver performance reporting
- Identify and drive cost-reduction opportunities in daily operations
- Support and develop SAP system enhancements and deployments
- Improve business plans to achieve leading KPIs
- Lead continual improvements and lean practices across the team
- Act as main contact for supplier schedules, engineering changes, and booking inquiries
- Use MRP to balance demand and supply and keep inventory within targets
- Identify and escalate risks to production, lead times, and capacity
- Support Engineering in new parts rollout and stock ramp-up to minimise obsolescence
- Conduct scenario modelling to optimise demand-supply plans
- Own MRP parameter data to ensure correct inventory levels
- Manage schedule adherence data and KPI targets related to materials planning
- Provide logistical support for new model projects or option introductions when needed
Key requirements
- Previous experience in senior stakeholder management
- Team management and coaching experience
- Strong governance and process-orientation
- Familiarity with operating metrics to drive performance
- Confident in presenting strategies with analysis and business cases
- Ability to work across purchasing, material planning and manufacturing
- SAP experience
- Understanding of Automotive OEM supply chains and supplier processes
- Strong Excel and data interpretation skills
- Comprehensive planning principles and decision-making ability
- Structured and organised approach
- Leadership and team coaching
- Stakeholder management
- Effective communication
- SAP
- MRP
- Excel
Senior Material Planning & Controller in Woking employer: McLaren Group
McLaren Automotive is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic and fast-paced work environment in Woking, where innovation meets collaboration. With a strong focus on employee growth, we provide structured career development, generous benefits including enhanced pension schemes and flexible lifestyle options, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion that fosters a supportive culture. Join our high-performing team and be part of a community dedicated to pushing the boundaries of automotive excellence.
