Senior Material Planning & Controller

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

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