Supply Chain Lead

Overview

In this role you will architect and scale Bloom & Wild’s non-horticultural procurement and stock planning function. You will lead a growing team, partner with cross-functional peers, and build automated, scalable systems to support rapid range expansion while maintaining high availability and controlled costs. You will shape processes, KPIs, and supplier performance to drive inventory health and margin protection. This is a ground-up transformation with measurable impact on availability, efficiency and cash flow.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible working & work from abroad
• 25 days holiday + birthday + flexible bank holidays
• 1 Volunteering day each year
• Enhanced family leave and workplace nursery
• Flexible training framework
• Discounts on products, blooms & subscriptions

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale the non-horticultural stock planning function from scratch
• Lead multi-site stock availability, balancing availability with waste and cost
• Develop and automate supply chain tools and AI workflows to reduce manual work
• Establish standardized processes and weekly KPI reviews for proactive risk management
• Coach and develop a stock planning team, building succession and resilience
• De-risk new ranges by ensuring infrastructure supports higher SKU counts and inventory levels
• Collaborate with commercial to right-size inventory and manage excess via third-party relationships
• Provide operational support during peak periods and issues, and monitor 3PW SLA performance
• Improve supplier performance through internal reporting and initiatives

Key requirements

• Experience in procurement, purchasing, supply chain or supply planning with team leadership
• Proven track record in scaling supply chains to absorb growth using technology and automation
• Tech-savvy with ability to build automated tools using G-suite and other platforms, with AI-enabled approaches
• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities with stakeholder management
• Continuous improvement mindset and ability to establish feedback loops
• Proactive and hands-on, able to contribute directly during peak times
• commercially and data-driven with focus on margins and working capital

• leadership and mentorship
• stakeholder management
• continuous improvement mindset
• G-suite
• automation tooling
• AI workflows

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