Supply Chain Lead - (South West)

Job Role

We're hiring for a Supply Chain Lead to join our Youth Job Guarantee programme in the South West. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced partnership and performance management professional who is passionate about helping young people progress into sustainable employment.

In this role, you'll manage a network of delivery partners, ensuring high quality services, strong performance and positive outcomes for participants. You'll build collaborative relationships with subcontractors, monitor contract performance, drive continuous improvement and ensure compliance with contractual and quality standards.

Working closely with internal teams and external partners, you'll use performance data and insight to improve delivery, share best practice and help achieve contract targets while ensuring services meet the needs of local young people and employers.

Our ideal candidate will have experience in supply chain, contract or partnership management within a target driven environment, with a proven ability to drive performance, maintain quality standards and build effective stakeholder relationships. You'll be confident using performance data to identify improvements, highly proficient in Microsoft 365 applications and possess excellent communication and organisational skills. Experience within employability, skills or welfare-to-work services, along with knowledge of the employability sector and local labour markets, would be advantageous.

In return, you'll join an organisation committed to transforming lives and strengthening communities, where your contribution will have a direct impact on the success of the Youth Job Guarantee programme and the young people we support.

For your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we’re offering a competitive salary range £51,000 per annum (dependent on experience) with these great benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy additional days)
• 2 Volunteer Days
• Pension - 5% Employee 5% Employer
• Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
• Annual Salary Review
• Refer A Friend Scheme
• Free access to BenefitHub - an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, cycle to work scheme and additional voluntary benefits

Seetec Group is an employee-owned organisation and we continually pride ourselves on our sense of community, both in the incredible work we do throughout UK and Ireland, and internally with our employee-owners. People are at the front, centre and heart of every service we provide and each decision we make.

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Location: South West

Hours: 37 hours a week. Monday to Thursday 8.30 am to 5pm, Friday 8.30 am to 4.30pm

Closing Date: 15 October 2026

Contract Type: Permanent

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support a network of subcontracted delivery partners, ensuring contractual targets, quality standards and KPIs are achieved.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with subcontractors to drive performance and positive outcomes for young people.
• Use a balanced approach of challenge and support to help partners successfully deliver all aspects of their contract.
• Monitor and analyse performance data, identifying trends, risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Conduct regular contract review meetings and performance discussions with delivery partners across the region.
• Develop and implement performance improvement plans to address delivery gaps and maximise contract outcomes.
• Work closely with Quality, Compliance, Commercial and Finance teams to ensure effective contract delivery and partner compliance.
• Support continuous improvement by sharing best practice, encouraging innovation and identifying new approaches to delivery.
• Ensure subcontractors maintain robust safeguarding, Prevent, Equality, Diversity and Health & Safety policies and practices.
• Establish effective operational delivery plans and support partners in developing capability and achieving sustainable success.

Skills and Experience

• Proven ability to manage supply chains and delivery partner networks.
• Strong background in target-focused performance management and quality assurance.
• Ability to thrive in a high-performance, target-driven environment.
• Fully IT literate, with proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications and digital technologies, including Microsoft Teams.
• Demonstrable success in delivering services against contractual and quality standards.

Desirable

• CIPS qualified.
• Knowledge of the employability industry.
• Ability to identify, manage and mitigate operational risks.
• Understanding of applying continuous improvement methodologies.
• Knowledge of the local labour market and the challenges of the job market.
• Full driving licence to enable deployment across a specified geographical

Additional Information

Seetec is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values.

Dependent on the role applying to you may be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS/DS) check. Seetec support the recruitment of ex- offenders and will not discriminate in any way. Our full policy statement of Ex-Offenders can be found on our website under About us .

Seetec is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

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