Planning & Delivery Leader

Job Description Planning & Delivery Leader - Solihull Full Time Solihull/Hybrid working Why join Rolls-Royce? At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture. Position Summary In this role you will manage the planning and on-time delivery of a defined portfolio of parts across the full product lifecycle, including NPI, production, transfers, and supply chain design. You will serve as the primary contact for both external suppliers and internal stakeholders, ensuring strong relationship management and timely delivery performance. This role also involves driving adherence to supplier commitments, resolving risks to delivery and inventory, and maintaining SAP data integrity in line with ERP processes. What you will be doing As a Planning & Delivery Leader you’ll be responsible for ensuring the planning and on time delivery of a defined portfolio of components across the full product lifecycle. This will include: Demand flow down Review and maintain the planning parameters of all the parts in your portfolio to ensure the MRP run generates a demand signal that is in line with suppliers’ capacity. Manage the demand flow down to suppliers, ensuring suppliers receive weekly orderbooks that are reflective of RR needs, including exceptions highlighted by the RR ERP system that need to be reviewed and addressed by the suppliers. Manage the requisitions for un-sourced parts to ensure buyers can source the parts in a timely manner Supplier Management: Lead regular reviews with suppliers to ensure the demand flowed down by RR is loaded into the supplier’s system, resolve the Exception management messages, understand production progress against commitments, highlight any issues and ensure treatment plans are in place and monitored to recover any potential delay or excess inventory. Ensure any changes to the suppliers’ production plans and commitments are reflected in RR ERP systems. Lead regular supplier reviews (Delivery reviews and orderbook reviews) in line with the agreed supplier engagement plan (remotely or on site at supplier) to review suppliers’ performance across all agreed KPIs, review load and capacity plan and ensure it supports RR demand, to review all risks and issues and ensure each have a treatment/mitigation plan to resolve/mitigate in a timely manner. Work with your suppliers to create and execute arrears recovery plans for parts/suppliers who are behind plan, utilising an appropriate suite of planning and control tools Drive suppliers to be compliant with their buffer stock requirements/agreements. Stakeholder management Where performance diverges from the plan, identify and prioritise delivery issues whilst assisting the mitigation and resolution. Escalate delivery issues accordingly to drive timely resolution of issues Manage communication with stakeholders for shortages and excess inventory, communicate clearly the issue, demonstrating control by providing plans to resolve issues and provide frequent updates. Work with other functions to ensure items which could impact on a supplier’s ability to deliver are resolved, including but not limited to invoice clearance, commercial disputes, technical/quality queries or insufficient purchase order coverage ERP compliance: Review all KPIs that are used within the Supplier management team and present progress and actions to be compliant during Weekly ERP compliance reviews Work with suppliers, and internally, to resolve any delivery issues not directly linked to the suppliers (e.g. stock in transit, GRIP, NCR stock, etc) Work in line with the Procurement Production System and support its development and improvement activities to continuously improve the way we operate. Position qualifications Being a part of Rolls-Royce you’ll know we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do.  These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. Educated to degree level in a numerate or business discipline or will have equivalent business experience within planning, manufacturing or supply chain Membership of a relevant professional body or institute would be desirable e.g., APICS CPIM. You will be a proficient user of Microsoft Office applications (Excel is essential) with working knowledge of an ERP system, preferably SAP MRP, Production Planning & Material Management An understanding of load and capacity planning Data analysis and decision-making skills, comfortable dealing with ambiguity. The ability to communicate with all parts of the business including internal and external stakeholders Regional Benefits Generous Annual Leave Retirement Savings Group Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die whilst employed by Rolls-Royce Group Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury Your Shares: Matched is a simple way to own Rolls-Royce shares and invest in our future, together. Buy one share, get one free! Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too. Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive Closing date: 13th September 2026 As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided. Job Category Supply Chain Planning & Control Posting Date 03 Sept 2026; 00:09 Posting End Date 13 Sept 2026