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Our engineering clients based close to Winchester have an exciting opportunity for a Supply Chain Manager to join their growing team. The Supply Chain Manager will define and execute the supply chain strategy, ensuring reliable customer service, secure material availability, competitive total cost and disciplined working-capital performance. Lead Procurement, Demand Management, Customer Service, UK planning and ordering, while developing a resilient, data-driven supply chain organisation. Duties & Responsibilities: - Lead the regional Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, ensuring one reliable demand, supply and inventory plan, and prepare and present S&OP data to senior management on a monthly basis. - Lead the Procurement and Purchasing function, including purchasing requirements for Joysticks, Indicators, Keypads and Moulding, and ensure day-to-day purchasing and data administration responsibilities are completed effectively. - Develop category strategies, sourcing road maps and negotiation plans that balance cost, quality, delivery, innovation and risk. - Lead supplier selection, contracting, performance reviews and corrective-action plans, improving supplier OTD, lead-time reliability, capacity visibility and resilience. - Drive year-on-year productivity through price, specification, value analysis/value engineering, localisation, resourcing and total-cost initiatives. - Ensure material availability and production capacity to maintain operational continuity across Winchester, relevant EMEA operations, and oversees. - Maintain full control of strategic components and other supply risks that could affect business continuity; identify and mitigate single-source, geopolitical, financial and continuity risks. - Own the regional demand-management process and consolidate forecasts, orders, market intelligence and customer priorities. - Lead Customer Service and Order Administration activities from order entry and confirmation through delivery and issue resolution, including management of backlogs, allocation decisions, expedites and customer escalations. - Drive reduction of excess, obsolete and slow-moving inventory and maintain accurate inventory through stock controls, cycle counting, transaction discipline and corrective actions. - Work with Engineering, Stores, Quality, Production, Sales, Finance, Operations, IT, HR and Group Supply Chain to ensure the information and support required to complete supply-chain activities without delay. - Build, coach and develop the EMEA supply chain team, clarify accountability, support succession planning and develop competencies. - Lead transformation projects, process harmonisation, continuous improvement, digitalisation and change management across countries and sites. Required skills & Experience: Proven experience managing & leading within a similar environment Supply chain experience with strong understanding of planning, inventory management, and stock level optimisation Planning & S&OP experience Continuous Improvement Stakeholder management

Job description: Ready to deliver change that genuinely lands? Want to drive measurable outcomes across multiple teams and sites? Looking for a Project Manager role where your planning, leadership and stakeholder skills are truly valued? We are currently looking for a Project Manager to join our busy team and help turn ambitious plans into real results across our K & Ireland business. About Us: Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we're the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses. We provide global access to an unrivalled range of over 750,000 stocked industrial products. Each day our team of experts deliver solutions to resolve our customer's challenges across design, procurement, inventory and maintenance. We consistently strive to deliver the best possible service to all of our customers and challenge ourselves to provide a seamless procurement experience. We are one team. We deliver brilliantly. We do the right thing. We make every day better. These are our values. They unite our c.9,000 global colleagues and differentiate us from our competition. They are a mix of how we work today and how we must step up for the future. Most importantly, it is one set of values shaped by our people, for our people. RS Group is organised into three regions: EMEA, APAC and the Americas. The UK & Ireland is the largest market within the EMEA region, and we have created business plans to grow from £700m of revenues to £1.5bn over the next 5 years through both organic and inorganic means. BPX is a leading automation and control specialists in the UK & Ireland, operating through a network of locations across the UK and Ireland. The Group brings together complementary businesses including BPX, Control Components Anglia (CCA), Control and Drives Limited (CDL) and Leicester Switch & Controls (LSC). Across these businesses BPX Group offers field services and specialist support to help customers improve productivity, efficiency and resilience across a wide range of industrial sectors. As part of RS Group, BPX offers the agility, entrepreneurial culture and customer focus of a specialist business alongside the scale, investment and career opportunities of a global organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to influence culture, develop talent and support a growing multi-site business through its next phase of growth and transformation while preserving the strong identity and values that have made BPX successful. Main Duties: You will drive the successful delivery of strategic and operational priorities within BPX, ensuring alignment with the wider market Value Driver Framework and our strategic objectives. Working closely with the Head of PMO, you'll provide the structure, coordination and execution discipline needed to convert plans into measurable outcomes. This involved leading cross-functional initiatives, monitoring progress against key objectives, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring agreed deliverables are delivered on time and to the required standard - while keeping delivery firmly connected to business, market and customer priorities. Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience: Proven project management experience delivering complex cross-functional initiatives. Demonstrable experience of supporting the people and adoption elements of business change, including stakeholder impact assessment, communications, training and transition into business as usual Strong planning, organisation, and prioritisation skills. Experience creating and managing project plans, timelines, and governance processes. Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and competing priorities. Strong problem-solving and risk management capability. Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills. Ability to influence stakeholders and drive accountability without direct authority. Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and monitor performance. Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail. Self-starter with the resilience and tenacity to drive actions through to completion. Results-focused mindset with a strong commitment to delivery. Experience working in fast-paced and changing environments. Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills. Comfortable working across a decentralised, multi-site organisation and able to build credibility with operational, commercial and functional teams at every level. Desirable Skills and Experience: Experience supporting acquisition integration, transformation, or change programmes. Knowledge of project governance and portfolio management practices. Experience within a matrix organisation. Familiarity with benefits realisation and performance tracking methodologies. Experience developing executive-level reporting and dashboards. Financial tracking, budgeting, or business case support experience. Professional project management qualifications (PRINCE2, MSP, PMP, Agile or equivalent). Experience working within industrial, distribution, manufacturing, or commercial environments. BPX offers great benefits such as: Minimum of 31 days annual leave including bank holidays (increasing with length of service) Access to our training and development platform Friendly and supportive work environment Dress down Fridays Access to the Employee Assistance Programme Recruitment referral bonus Opportunities for career progression Cycle 2 Work scheme Ability to carry forward unused holiday Option to purchase additional annual leave Free onsite parking Emergency loans BPX remains a financially secure business, offering the chance to work within a happy, friendly company with some wonderful and talented people. If you like a challenge and believe you are the right person to join our team, please click apply and upload your CV, we look forward to hearing from you! We reserve the right to close the advert early when a suitable candidate is found. No Agencies, please.

Practice Group / Department: EMEA IT Applications Job Description Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm with more than 3,000 lawyers advising clients across locations in the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. We provide a full scope of legal services to the world's preeminent corporations and financial institutions. Our vision is to be a world class business, profitable, ambitious, cooperative and considerate, supporting our clients and people through our global business principles of Quality, Unity and Integrity. With over 7,000 employees worldwide, our culture is the thread that connects us. Our strategy and culture are closed connected - defined by shared ambition, global collaboration and a one-team mindset. We believe pioneering work happens when people are empowered to think beyond boundaries, explore new opportunities and grow through diverse experiences. Alongside the right skills and experience, we are looking for people who are innovative, commercially minded, and motivated by the impact of the work they do - ready to share in our ambition and help shape what comes next. Because while individuals can do well, together we achieve something extraordinary. The Role The Data Platform Engineer will ensure Norton Rose Fulbright's enterprise data platform is a stable, secure and supportable IT service. The platform is built on Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and associated Azure services, supports the firm's strategic data capability across EMEA and EMEAPAC, and is governed through Terraform, Azure DevOps and a standardised deployment framework. The role is hands-on and service-focused. It provides the operational foundation needed to keep the platform reliable, observable, governed and ready for controlled production use. Its emphasis is on platform health, support processes, quality assurance, release readiness, incident response and continual service improvement. The successful candidate will work closely with Architecture, Information Security, Service Delivery, Infrastructure, suppliers and consuming business teams to ensure platform changes are deployed safely through established CI/CD processes, supported by appropriate monitoring, operational controls, documentation and governance standards. Key Responsibilities Provide L2/L3 operational support for Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, and associated Azure services. Maintain platform health, availability, resilience, and supportability across the data platform estate. Perform routine platform administration, operational checks, and capacity and utilisation monitoring. Monitor platform performance, identify optimisation opportunities, and maintain cost awareness. Troubleshoot issues across platform, identity, networking, storage, security, and integration layers. Manage incidents, problems, and service requests in line with established ITSM processes. Investigate and resolve operational issues, ensuring timely restoration of service. Support major incident response activities where platform services are impacted. Contribute to root cause analysis and implement actions to improve platform stability and reduce issue recurrence. Collaborate with internal teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to deliver effective operational support. Support change, release, and environment management activities across the platform estate. Maintain release readiness checklists and operational acceptance criteria. Validate platform changes prior to production deployment to ensure supportability and risk controls are in place. Support the management of Development, Test, and Production environments. Ensure configuration consistency across environments and platform services. Contribute to CI/CD, version control, and release automation practices for platform assets. Promote operational excellence through continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and robust documentation. Quality, Monitoring and Governance A key part of the role is to define and execute operational QA checks for platform changes, integrations and supplier-delivered components. The engineer will verify that monitoring, alerting, logging, access controls, runbooks, escalation routes and support processes are in place before production release. They will support service acceptance and transition activity, assessing readiness against availability, recoverability, supportability, security and control requirements. The role will implement and maintain monitoring, alerting and observability across Fabric, Databricks and Azure services. It will develop service health reporting, operational dashboards and exception monitoring, and maintain runbooks, known error records, support documentation and knowledge articles. The engineer will contribute to service reviews, operational assurance and continual improvement. The role will support governance, security and compliance by assisting with access control, role management, privileged access processes, audit evidence, metadata, lineage, auditability

The Permanent Division of Robert Half is currently recruiting for an Export Compliance Manager on behalf of a specialist Manufacturing business with offices in Bedford. The Role As Export Compliance Manager you will be the regional subject matter expert for export controls, classifications, sanctions compliance and licensing for the business covering sales across EMEA, India and the US. Day to day duties will consist of: Lead and support the regional export controls and sanctions compliance program for 37 legal entities in EMEA and India, including support in daily queries Perform and lead military, dual-use, ECCN, and SCOMET classifications Provide technical guidance to engineering and product teams on export control requirements Drive continuous improvement of Internal Compliance Programs (ICP) Conduct and lead compliance audits, risk assessments, and corrective action programs Engage with local authorities on export compliance related topics, including regular audits and disclosures Manage export control training program for legal entities Strategize regulatory developments and assess business impacts Support automation and digital transformation initiatives, including Global Trade Management (GTM) projects Partner with stakeholders to ensure compliant and business-friendly processes Your Profile You will be knowledgeable across Exports, Imports and Trade Compliance across Europe and ideally further afield and ideally have worked within Engineering or Manufacturing industries. In addition you will have the ability to influence cross-functional teams in a global environment and will have a strong leadership personality with effective communication towards executive and site leadership. In all this is an excellent role for an individual who combines a strong technical or engineering background with deep export controls expertise, outstanding leadership skills, and the ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical business solutions. Salary and Benefits Role of Export Compliance Manager is working Mainly remote with some travel needed from time to time to Bedford and other group sites and is offering a salary of £70-80K + Bonus + Benefits Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data:

Your new company A leading global organisation operating within the nuclear energy and advanced engineering sector is looking to appoint an EMEA Tax Manager to its established international tax team. This business plays a critical role in supporting essential infrastructure projects worldwide and has built a strong reputation for innovation, technical excellence, and long-term investment in its people. This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly visible tax function, working closely with senior finance stakeholders and gaining exposure to complex international tax matters across the EMEA region. Your new role Reporting directly to the EMEA Tax Director, you will take responsibility for a broad range of corporate tax activities across multiple jurisdictions. Your responsibilities will include: Leading the quarterly and year-end group tax reporting process, ensuring accurate and timely tax provisions under US GAAP Managing the relationship with external advisers and overseeing the delivery of corporate tax compliance obligations across the EMEA region Supporting and managing tax audits, enquiries and correspondence with tax authorities Overseeing withholding tax compliance and ensuring adherence to local regulations Partnering with finance teams and wider business stakeholders to provide tax advice on a range of commercial matters, including transfer pricing, international projects, contract reviews, permanent establishment risks and global mobility Supporting the enhancement of tax processes, controls and governance frameworks within a listed company environment What you'll need to succeed To be successful in this position, you will be a qualified tax or finance professional with strong corporate tax experience gained either within practice or industry. You will ideally possess: ACA, ACCA, CTA or equivalent professional qualification Approximately five years' post-qualified experience within a Big 4, Top 20 practice or large multinational organisation Strong corporate tax compliance and tax reporting experience Experience working within or advising multinational groups What you'll get in return In return, you will join a highly respected global organisation offering a competitive salary and benefits package alongside excellent career development opportunities. What you need to do now If you're interested in this EMEA Tax Manager role in Leeds, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk