Supply Chain Coordinator

Supply Chain Coordinator
Hybrid working

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. 

We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries, and provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked engineering products to more than 1.2 million customers. 

About the role:

As part of our EMEA Supply Chain team, you will be working with suppliers to ensure that we have everything in stock that we need to keep our 1.2 million customers happy!  You'll be following up on missing orders, ensuring purchase orders are up to date and reflect what our suppliers are delivering against, and working with our category management teams across Europe to maintain and update our inventory plan.

You'll be working with great people, in our modern business shared service centre in Riga, collaborating with an international team, who are all looking to make amazing happen for our people and our customers!

What you will be doing:

• Oversee arrears management, ensuring all systems reflect accurate delivery dates and include clear explanatory notes.
• Manage the Supply Plan in alignment with Category and Cell Inventory Strategies, ensuring accurate updates in SAP/Blue Yonder systems.
• Act as the primary interface for vendor-related supply planning queries, supporting both external suppliers and internal stakeholders such as Sales Liaison, Inventory Control, Demand Planning, Product, and Operations.
• Liaise with warehouse teams to resolve supplier delivery queries.
• Serve as the first point of contact and escalation for late purchase orders.
• Maintain and update the Supply Plan in line with Category and Cell Inventory Strategies, ensuring accuracy in SAP/JDA systems.
• Oversee arrears management, ensuring systems reflect correct delivery dates with clear explanatory notes.
• Act as a key interface for vendor-related supply planning queries, supporting both external vendors and internal stakeholders including Inventory Control, Demand Planning, Product, and Operations.

What we are looking for from you:

• Great communication skills and experience working with suppliers to solve problems.
• An understanding of purchasing, inventory or supply chain processes - e.g. Purchase Orders
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, data analysis).
• Experience with supply chain planning tools (Blue Yonder/JDA, SAP APO, or similar).
• Understanding of logistics and transportation planning.
• Familiarity with data visualisation tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) for reporting.
• Diversity and inclusiveness awareness 
• Fluent in English language 
• Open, honest & trustworthy 
• Good challenging, collaboration and influencing skills. 

We are RS Group.

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.  
Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.  

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.  

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.  

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. 

Come and join us and over 9000 employees worldwide – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.

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