Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Operations - Manufacturing

Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Operations - Manufacturing

Location:

London

Other locations:

Anywhere in Country

Salary:

Competitive

Date:

Mar 20, 2026

Job description

Requisition ID:

1692854

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Senior Manager, Supply Chain and Operations - Manufacturing

Take your career to the next level and join a high performing and inclusive team, working collaboratively with some of the most significant organisations in the world as they seek to strengthen strategic performance and resilience of their supply chains and manufacturing operations.
 

The opportunity
 
Leverage and expand your experience in manufacturing operational performance improvement, innovation and technology to be at the forefront of shaping our clients’ manufacturing practices and leading their leading their strategy, manufacturing excellence, digital, automation & AI journey. Develop and impart your experience on those you work with to help create the next generation of supply chain leaders.
 
We value curious thinkers who have the courage to lead, great communicators who do not take themselves too seriously, flexible collaborators who build relationships based on doing the right thing and innovative problem-solvers who use their experience to find a better way to support and bring value to our clients.

EY has two key service offerings within our manufacturing practice:

1. Manufacturing Excellence; comprised of the following elements
   1. Revolutionise manufacturing practices through our EY operating manufacturing methodology
   2. Coaching and training core manufacturing clients in new ways of working
   3. Digitising manufacturing daily management systems to improve factory performance

1. Digital Manufacturing; comprised of the following elements:
   1. Building digital roadmaps and business cases
   2. Programme management and system integration roles within large digital transformations
   3. Advising clients on leading digital practices
   4. Develop manufacturing solution playbooks to enable clients to deliver digital transformation

Your key responsibilities
 
Our clients place considerable trust in us and our advice. People who are passionate, go above and beyond to improve our working world, unifies us as a team. This is crucial in enabling us to consistently deliver or exceed on our commitments.
 
As a Senior Manager, you’ll balance client work, business development support, operational and people development as part of your day job. You will advise and support global Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Technology leaders to define and deliver breakthroughs in performance through manufacturing excellence and Industry 4.0 digital manufacturing programmes. It is required that you have a deep expertise in one of the two service offerings and a light understanding of the other one. Key responsibilities include:
 

• Managing complete programme governance; strategy, framework, and standard development
• Own financials and resource staffing for complex programmes or several different client programmes
• Able to advise clients of the leading practice in this field ensuring that we build credibility and deep relationships
• Identifying, perusing and closing opportunities within all programmes/clients to grow the business
• Management, creation, and execution of client RfP responses e.g., manufacturing transformations / architecture designs and diagnostics
• Model detailed business cases across clients’ networks to justify investing in manufacturing excellence and digital deployment
• Advising clients on top stops, loss analysis and countermeasures to reduce critical losses
• Deep understanding of manufacturing excellence practices; IWS / RTT methodology and coaching plant teams to improve operational performance
• Develop technical requirements, use cases, reference architectures and translate into specifications for manufacturing solutions to ensure a consistent approach as well as tangible value delivery
• Coordinate proof of values/concepts and efforts for digitally enabled manufacturing excellence use cases demonstrating tangible manufacturing loss reduction
• Manage stakeholder engagement and drive global solution adoption
• Manage alignment between digital solution and traditional production excellence methods and develop global, regional and factory roadmaps and deployment plans

Focus on our clients

• Build, maintain and strengthen relationships and be a trusted advisor in Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Operations
• Be adept at problem-solving with clients and project teams, leveraging your skills to help manage projects to completion
• Develop experience and relationships across several clients over time often as part of a team from different parts of EY, whilst being able to maintain focus on current project delivery

 
Develop our business

• Contribute to the development of proposals to showcase our leading practices and credentials
• Engage the market with thought leadership and public profile and contribute to enhancing our methodologies
• Work across our internal sector fields of play account teams to develop your network, bringing expertise to bear

 
Drive operational excellence

• Support successful delivery of projects and workstreams as forecast to time and budget
• Help ensure the quality of our delivery exceeds client expectations by effectively managing activities and deliverables within your remit

 
Develop our people

• Manage and nurture those who work with you and undertake career counselling responsibilities
• Increasingly become an inclusive leader capable of forming diverse high performing teams that are enjoyable to be part of and help our consultant and client teams to develop and realise their potential
   

Your experience

• Senior Managers must bring practical experience of 6-10 years from both professional services / advisory / consulting and industry knowledge where you have developed your manufacturing experience (including Lean), project and programme management from significant exposure to working within manufacturing environments
• You will have a proven track record of eliminating manufacturing losses applying lean manufacturing excellence principles
• You will understand modern digital manufacturing systems and technology standards in a typical factory and bring experience of leading digital technologies such as: Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES); Connected Workforce Platform (CWP); Condition Monitoring Systems (CMS); Machine Vision Systems (MVS); Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS), Control Tower (CT)
• You must have delivered transformational project(s) or tech-enabled project(s), in a previous role and understand all the commercials and governance activities to successfully deliver for the client
• You will be able to communicate designs and decisions effectively verbally to peers, clients and management and engage internal and external stakeholders
• Your written communication will be second to none, being able to easily convey messages and distil client discussions/ideas/concepts into a clear and simple document

What we offer

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Plus, we offer:

•    Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next. 
•    Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
•    Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
•    Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build. 

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Please note: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. 

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