Summary
Our supply chain teams are looking for enthusiastic, detail-oriented individuals to help keep our products consistently available to our valued supermarket customers. You’ll play a vital role in the planning and coordination that drives our supply chain, ensuring smooth product flow from our facilities to store shelves.
Annual wage
Competitive
Training course
Supply chain leadership professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours
Monday to Friday, shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date
Monday 1 September
Duration
4 years
Positions available
1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
As a Supply Chain Degree Apprentice, you’ll be part of a team dedicated to ensuring product availability through meticulous planning and proactive management. Key responsibilities include:
* Production Planning: Learn to forecast and plan production schedules to align with customer demand, optimising product availability and minimising delays.
* Inventory Control: Monitor and manage stock levels to ensure the right products are always available without overstocking or creating waste.
* Demand Forecasting: Support data-driven forecasting processes, helping the team to predict customer needs and respond to market trends.
* Collaboration with Stakeholders: Work closely with suppliers, production teams, and logistics to ensure seamless coordination and quick response to any supply challenges.
* Problem-Solving for Product Flow: Help troubleshoot any disruptions in the supply chain, focusing on maintaining continuous product supply to supermarket customers.
Where you’ll work
74 Helsinki Road
Sutton Fields Industrial Estate
Kingston Upon Hull
HU7 0YW
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
Your training course
Supply chain leadership professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Equal to degree
Course contents
* Determine benefits of insourcing, offshoring or outsourcing
* Gather, analyse, interpret and use data from across the supply chain to propose and make effective decisions
* Source and plan optimal transport solutions
* Actively integrate and use data across enterprise lines
* Develop differentiated supply chain strategies aligned to relevant business unit or function to achieve long-term sustainable growth
* Use end customer insight to design and evaluate end-to-end supply chain networks
* Use current market and product information to influence and challenge supply chain network design
* Leverage, and capitalise on, supply chain assets to deliver financial targets
* Drive cost efficiencies and service level improvements through the distribution network
* Practise in a sustainable and ethical way all sourcing and buying decisions
* Control information and material flow on-time and in-full
* Apply relevant inventory control techniques and tools
* Articulate ways to minimise costs and deploy Lean principles while optimising service
* Introduce strategies for managing inventory optimisation and rationalisation across the extended supply chain
* Implement change in the supply chain in response to changes in production, scheduling and demand
* Collaborate with manufacturing functions to meet criteria of quality, time and continuity
* Manage distribution and logistics networks, inbound and outbound
* Evolve alternative supply chains to ensure resilience and continuity of supply
* Design activities for receiving, put-away, storage, replenish, order-picking and dispatch
* Identify next-generation software and manage potentially disruptive technologies
* Match innovation in IT with business needs including global sourcing and the international trade context
* Meet the challenge of technology selection, development, implementation and application
* Give guidance on meeting environmental and legal requirements and maintain a high regard for risk identification and reduction, and safety management
* Articulate business purpose and values and establish key accountabilities for contract formation and negotiation
* Introduce innovative distribution, delivery and return methods while managing risk
* Implement the 7 "R's" of sustainability: remove, reduce, reuse, renew, recycle, revenue and read
* Maintain the competitiveness of the supply chain
* Agree, communicate, collaborate and coordinate supply chain and network imperatives with finance, HR, IT, sales and marketing functions and with key partners
* Initiate value-adding strategic and operational processes through effective project and task management
Your training plan
You will attend Sheffield Hallam University on a series of short study blocks.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
* Any subject (grade BBC / Distinction Merit Merit)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Problem solving skills
* Analytical skills
* Team working