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  • About The Role

  • You’re experienced in supply chain planning and passionate about using data to optimise operations.  You enjoy problem-solving and working with cross-functional teams to ensure the right resources are in place.

    As Supply Chain Planning Specialist, you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining production plans at both regional and national levels. Your work will ensure the effective use of staff, volunteers, dogs, and properties, aligning resources with demand to support the organisation’s strategic goals.

    You’ll collaborate with operational managers to create and maintain production schedules, ensuring services run smoothly and efficiently. By developing capacity planning tools, you’ll optimise resource utilisation across a multi-skilled and multi-site workforce.

    Your role will involve working closely with dog supply, property, staffing, and volunteering teams to balance supply and demand, making data-driven recommendations to improve efficiency. You’ll conduct demand planning meetings, reviewing forecasts and identifying risks and opportunities, adjusting plans as needed.

    Using enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and other tools, you’ll analyse supply chain trends and provide clear, actionable reports. Your insights will support operational leaders in decision-making, helping to optimise outputs in line with strategic targets. You’ll also contribute to the continuous improvement of planning processes and data modelling, ensuring Guide Dogs operates effectively and sustainably.

    To be successful in this role, you’ll need demonstrable experience in operational delivery, supply chain, demand planning, or inventory management. You should have a strong background in data analysis and business operations, with the ability to translate complex data into clear, practical insights.

    A minimum of a Level 3 qualification in Supply Chain and Operations or equivalent relevant experience is required. Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and knowledge of ERP systems will be beneficial. Strong communication and problem-solving skills are essential, along with the ability to work across departments and influence decision-making.

    No two people with sight loss are the same, and none of our people are either. So, we are proud to offer a range of person-centred benefits that can support each member of staff in ways that really mean something to them – and show them how much they mean to us. We offer a flexible benefits package, discounts and cashback scheme, a generous holiday allowance and matched contributory pension scheme to care for our people.  

    We value in-person collaboration with our teams and those we support, so there will be occasional travel needed in this role for team meetings, site visits and training.  Although this is a home-based role, we support hybrid working arrangements, so you have flexibility to work in a way that’s best for you – whether that’s from home or your local site.  This is a full time position working 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

    Interviews for this role are planned to take place W/C 14 April 2025

  • About Us

  • How to apply 

    Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page.

    If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to [email protected].

    As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. You’ll also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions as part of this application process, so please be prepared to write your answers to these questions. 

    If you want to know more about the teams who work at Guide Dogs, you can find it on our Careers Page

    Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

    Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. 

    As a Disability Confident Employer, we are proud, whenever possible, to offer an interview to all candidates that meet our selection criteria, and who indicate they wish their application to be considered under our Disability Confident interview commitment. For more details, visit our careers site.

    If you are successful you’ll need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier; in addition, we cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

    Every day is different at Guide Dogs. And no person with sight loss is the same. We work side by side, on our sites and in the community, in schools and on our streets, supporting people to live the life they choose. Our staff therefore also work in different ways to support the delivery of our life changing work.

    Safeguarding

    Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.

    At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually, taking into account the nature of the offense, its relevance to the role, and the time that has passed since the incident. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.

    Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you’ll be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

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