Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Europe Campaign supply chain intelligence, including supplier long lists, market assessments, and opportunity specific partner strategies.
• Lead engagement with prospective suppliers and supply chain partners in target markets, including arranging introductory discussions, capability reviews, and follow-up actions.
• Advise campaign leadership on market entry considerations for Poland, Germany, and other relevant European markets, including local delivery models, partnering options, and risk considerations.
• Work closely with bid, commercial, legal, programme, and operational colleagues to translate market intelligence into competitive and deliverable bid strategies.
• Support the development of Day 1 and longer-term delivery approaches, ensuring supply chain considerations are built into both mobilisation and future state operating models.
• Produce concise briefings, recommendation papers, supplier summaries, and decision support material for senior stakeholders.
• Assess supplier capability, compliance, resilience, and strategic fit, and recommend priority partners for further pursuit activity.
• Contribute to the development of commercial models and go-to-market approaches that improve competitiveness while maintaining delivery confidence.
• Track and manage supply chain actions across 6–9 month workstreams, ensuring progress is visible and aligned to campaign priorities.
• Represent supply chain input in campaign reviews, gate meetings, and internal planning sessions as required.

Your Deliverables

• Develop a Europe Campaign supply chain and partner landscape covering priority markets and opportunity areas.
• Delivery supplier and partner engagement plans for key pursuits, including target lists, status tracking, and recommendations.
• Shape market entry support for Poland and Germany, including options appraisal and local partner intelligence.
• Provide bid ready supply chain inputs, including strategy, supply chain solutions, partner recommendations, and commercial considerations.
• Regular stakeholder updates summarising supply chain insights, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.

The Candidate We are Hoping to Find

• Strong experience in supply chain, strategic sourcing, procurement, or commercial roles, ideally within defence, government services, logistics, infrastructure, or complex bid environments.
• Proven ability to conduct market analysis, identify and qualify suppliers, and translate insights into practical sourcing or partnering strategies.
• Experience supporting bids, business development campaigns, or market entry activity in new or developing markets.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across campaign, commercial, legal, operational, and leadership teams.
• Commercially aware, with the ability to assess delivery models, partner propositions, and competitive positioning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear executive-level summaries and recommendations.
• Experience of supplier segmentation, category management, or strategic portfolio tools such as Kraljic analysis would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of European supply markets, particularly Poland and/or Germany, would be beneficial.
• CIPS qualification or equivalent professional experience desirable.
• Degree-level qualification in supply chain, business, engineering, commercial management, or a related field desirable.

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