Materials Forecasting Manager

Overview

As a Materials Forecasting Manager at Linesight, you will lead materials forecasting and supply planning activities, ensuring critical materials are available to support project delivery. Working closely with project teams, procurement and client stakeholders, you will proactively identify supply risks, develop mitigation strategies and provide data-driven insights that enable successful project outcomes.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Develop and maintain accurate material demand forecasts across large-scale construction programmes.
• Analyse project schedules, design information and construction plans to identify future material requirements.
• Identify long lead-time materials, supply constraints and emerging market risks.
• Partner with suppliers, procurement teams, project stakeholders and clients to validate forecasting assumptions.
• Monitor global supply chain trends and assess potential impacts on project delivery.
• Develop mitigation strategies to address material shortages, delivery delays and market volatility.
• Produce regular reporting on forecast accuracy, material availability and supply chain risks.
• Support strategic decision-making through data-driven forecasting, scenario planning and risk analysis.

What you'll bring:

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong commercial awareness and problem-solving ability.
• A proactive approach to identifying and managing supply chain risks.
• The ability to influence decision-making across multiple functions and levels.
• Experience working within complex construction, infrastructure, manufacturing or engineering environments.
• Confidence presenting forecasts, risks and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have proven experience in materials planning, forecasting, supply chain management or construction logistics.
• Demonstrate advanced forecasting, planning and analytical capabilities.
• Possess a strong understanding of supply chain risk management and mitigation strategies.
• Have experience managing long lead-time materials within large-scale construction, engineering or infrastructure projects.
• Are commercially astute with experience engaging and influencing suppliers.
• Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively across technical, operational and commercial teams.
• Can interpret complex data and translate insights into practical business decisions.
• Thrive in fast-paced, dynamic project environments where priorities and risks continually evolve.

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!  

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility   

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!