Head of Supply Chain Planning

Job summary

This is a national vacancy, the successful candidate may be based at any of our main centres in the UK, final location to be agreed at interview. Job Summary Leading the Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Session Planning and Stock and Distribution Planning teams, you will oversee the end-to-end supply and delivery of all blood components. Creating both short and long-term demand plans, you will use statistical modelling techniques and tools, plus hospital usage data and commercial and clinical intelligence to ensure that these plans are accurate, thereby helping us meet demand. With the ability to work flexibly, you will review your plans at regular intervals, and you will work collaboratively with clinicians, customer service colleagues and wider stakeholders to coordinate activities to ensure that hospital supplies are not disrupted. Driving great results from each of your teams, you will support the needs of 250 hospital customers, seeing to it that blood components are where they need to be, at the time that they are needed. We are all focused on minimising waste, so you will also ensure over-production is avoided, and you will make plans for clinically-suitable alternative products if necessary. As an inspirational leader to a large team, you will have the capacity to communicate complex ideas in a way that is appropriate for that particular audience, and you will inspire a working culture of continuous improvement.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for planning the end-to-end supply of all blood components to hospital customers in England and collaborating with operational colleagues to achieve those plans, adapting to changing circumstances as required. Your responsibilities will include: Leading the Demand Planning team, working in partnership with clinicians and customer service colleagues to produce accurate short and long-term demand plans for all blood components and utilising a range of tools and statistical modelling techniques to ensure that the demand plans are data driven and as accurate as possible, reviewing at appropriate intervals. Ensuring blood collection and production plans are sufficient to fulfil forecast demand by working with the Supply Planning and Session Planning teams and colleagues in donor experience, blood collection and manufacturing departments Coordinating activity to ensure hospital supply is not disrupted and over-production is avoided, making provision for clinically suitable alternative products where necessary Working with the Stock and Distribution Planning team and our Hospital Services and Logistics colleagues, to ensure that stocks are held in the right place at the right time to fulfil demand from over 250 hospital customers Influencing the strategic direction of NHSBT, at all times advocating for a safe, efficient and resilient supply of blood components

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.