Inmarsat has been at the forefront of global mobile satellite communications for over thirty years, and is the market leading provider of voice and high-speed data communications for users on land, at sea and in the air through its constellation of 13 geostationary satellites.  Inmarsat plc is a FTSE listed company with a profitable track record and significant growth aspirations. This is represented by more than 55 nationalities in the workforce, reflecting the global and dynamic nature of the business. With an investment of over $3 billion in its latest network infrastructure, Inmarsat is at the forefront of global mobile communications innovation.

Chief Operations Office 

Inmarsat’s Chief Operations Office (COO) plays a vital role managing the services that keep our business running and delivering to our customers. COO consists of 9 functions from Satellite Operations to Customer Service and Service Delivery, Network Operations and Service Assurance to Group IT, One IT, Cyber Security and the Digital office.

Primary role purpose:

Inmarsat is operating across 5 business units; Maritime, Enterprise, Global Government, and Aviation. We have a wide product portfolio across these, which require a robust and quality assured assessment to understand current and future requirement. This role will play a key role in maintaining the plans to fulfil all requirements for deliverables across all business units and the entire equipment portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

• Preparation of order proposals to meet known or forecast demands for equipment for installations, upgrades, or spares while assessing risks and inventory implications. This means processing of approx. requirements raised from approx. 150 roles in the organization and consolidate and process this in one plan.
• A key role in ensure all requirements globally across all business units are properly scheduled and aligned. Entails keeping track of approx 6000 active transaction on average across in excess of 10 000 unique SKU’s in multiple variants globally and a monthly COGS in excess of £10M on average.
• Evaluating the impact of scheduled orders on the key drivers for Planning & Control and preparation of a response to satisfy them. Includes leading and integrating inputs of others, herein playing a key role in ensuring alignment and understanding of impact across the whole value chain. MRP recommendations is a key element in this.
• Processing of adhoc requests escalated to planning team for mitigation and expediting of deliveries to meet urgent customer requirements.
• Ensure alignment of all elements in the operational plan including sales requirements, scheduling and forecast inputs from the schedulers, project progress for deliveries in managed services
• Assessment of the risk, inventory, capacity and financial implications of plans. Risk assessment to include the ability to implement the plan, acquire material and compress lead-time as required. Evaluation of potential mitigations to avoid unacceptable risks and prepare alternative solutions
• Obtain and review external and internal capacities & capabilities to meet requirements and in case of misalignment take an active role in owning the mitigation solution to, within proper process and escalation paths, ensure a consolidated solution is reached including prioritisation of customer accounts, mitigations of resource availabilities, and other escalation/expediting actions taken.
• Plan and manage stock across the supply chain ensuring specified levels are maintained and is used in the appropriate order and time frame while optimizing working capital. Herein taking a active role in analysing, reviewing and proactively taking actions to enhance
• Support new product introduction activities with internal & external supply chain to mitigate risks and delivery issues
• Manage and coordinate delivery issues, i.e. shortages, schedule conflicts and contribute to arrange recovery plans
• Monitoring of metrics and performance data
• Maintenance of planning data to enable cascade of demand throughout the supply chain
• Contribute in development of tools and processes to support these activities

Essential Knowledge and Skills:

• Minimum bachelor degree in supply chain or logistics, preferably MSc or equivalent
• Minimum 3-5 years of planning & control or supply chain experience required
• Proficiency in MS office applications, and SAP or equivalent ERP systems required
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Proficiency in ERP scheduling and planning processes as well as financial implications of such
• Follow and issue verbal and written instructions and to direct the work of others to meet customer needs
• Handle a high degree of ambiguity in the inputs received and demonstrate the ability to consolidate and mitigate a common plan, herein processing a large volume of inputs and problem solving to get alignment
• Influence others actively to enable solutions and agreements to a consolidated plan
• Work well under pressure and juggle multiple and changing deadlines in a fast paced environment
• Reliability and willingness to work extra hours to meet deadlines and support regions
• Ability to build strong internal relationships with other departments
• Ability and willingness to take initiative
• Strong and effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent English skills, both orally and in writing
• Excellent communication skills

You must be eligible to work in this location advertised.

Inmarsat Values: 

Our values define Inmarsat’s culture and represent what we believe in. Inmarsat employees aspire to certain behaviours which support our corporate values, they create a stronger working environment and lie at the heart of our continued success as an organisation.

·       Accountability – taking ownership, getting results and keeping our promises

·       Respect – collaborating, embracing diversity and valuing differences

·       Excellence – creating bold solutions for our customers and putting quality at the heart of everything we do