Supply Chain Operations Manager

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Supply Chain Operations Manager at Siemens Energy, your day will revolve around ensuring goods and services are delivered on time, every time. You’ll work directly with suppliers to monitor delivery schedules, solve issues quickly, and support performance improvement. Collaborating across Procurement, Engineering, and Quality, you’ll play a key role in keeping our supply chain efficient and reliable. You’ll also use project management tools to track progress, identify risks, and manage delivery priorities for critical orders.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Manage and drive supplier delivery performance, proactively addressing risks to ensure critical goods and services arrive on time and in full.
• Build strong, trust-based relationships with key suppliers, influencing at senior levels to secure commitments and deliver sustained performance improvements.
• Lead assertive, solution-focused discussions with suppliers to resolve delivery delays, implementing agreed recovery plans and holding all parties accountable.
• Apply project management and planning tools – such as Gantt charts, manufacturing plans, and critical path analysis – to shape and execute effective delivery strategies.
• Direct the prioritisation and expediting of urgent orders, managing both parallel and sequential activities to protect programme timelines.
• Monitor and analyse supplier KPIs, initiating targeted improvement plans to address underperformance and deliver measurable results.
• Partner with Procurement, Quality, Engineering, and Commodity Management teams to remove bottlenecks, resolve conflicts, and ensure swift resolution of high-priority issues.
• Lead root cause investigations into delivery failures, implementing corrective actions and embedding contingency measures to protect future performance.
  
  
  

What You Bring

• Proven experience in leading supply chain management, logistics, or manufacturing, ideally within aerospace, gas turbines, or other complex, high-value engineered products.
• A track record of managing and improving supplier performance, with the ability to influence at senior levels and secure results under challenging circumstances.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with a proactive and continuous improvement attitude.
• The ability to think clearly and act decisively under pressure, applying a structured, solution-driven approach to complex challenges.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence to lead challenging conversations and negotiate effectively.
• Proficiency in project management tools and planning techniques, with experience translating plans into tangible delivery improvements.
• A collaborative leadership style with the interpersonal skills to influence both suppliers and cross-functional internal partners.
  
  
  

About The Team

Our Gas Services division offers Low-emission power generation through service and decarbonization. Zero or low emission power generation and all gas turbines under one roof, steam turbines and generators. Decarbonization opportunities through service offerings, modernization, and digitalization of the fleet.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• 26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served.
• Access to a flexible benefits portal, including private medical cover and cycle-to-work schemes.
• A class-leading adjustable pension scheme.
• Career development and continuous learning opportunities.
• The chance to work on innovative projects shaping the future of energy.