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Supply Chain Leadership Degree Apprenticeship

Employer
Wincanton Group Ltd
Location
Customer Contact Centre, Supply & Transport Store, Burton Road, Burton-on-Trent, DE14 3FN
Salary
£18,000.00 annually
Closing date
9 Aug 2019

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Specialism
Operations
Sector
Unspecified
Role Type
Apprenticeship, Degree
Start Date
October
Duration
Permanent
This is a great opportunity to earn money while showing your potential to a great organisation. We really value our people and we think our apprenticeship programme is the best alternative to university.

Supply chain leadership professionals are involved in procuring, producing, moving and delivering a product or service from a supplier to a customer or end-user. They have an important role in integrating the functions and processes of customers, distributors, manufacturers, partners, regulators, sub-suppliers and suppliers within and across companies, cities, towns and countries to form an effective and efficient end-to-end supply chain.

Main duties include organisation of a company's supply chain network of product and service delivery across the key operational functions ofplan, source, make, deliver, return and enable.All tasks aim to add value to the customer and end-to-end supply chain.

Tasks mayinclude:
  • Design and implement solutions to source and deliver materials into a production facility or of manufactured products to consumers
  • Explore multi-modal transport and cost-effective storage solutions
  • Decide where to invest in research and knowledge exchange to bring improvements to supply chain continuity
  • Optimise assets in the supply chain through continuous improvement
  • Relationship manage suppliers, intermediaries, third-party service providers and customers

We really value our people and offer a friendly working environment, a focus on developing your skills and a competitive salary. Benefits include a starting salary of £18,000per annum, 25 day's holiday (+8 days Bank Holiday), access to a company pension scheme with employer contributions and other optional schemes you may wish to join.

Requirements and prospects

Desired skills

  • Good communicator
  • Organised


Personal qualities

We are looking for bright, inquisitive candidates that demonstrate the following characteristics:
  • Enthusiastic
  • Self-motivated
  • Team worker
  • Passion for learning
  • Problem solver


Desired qualifications

  • Have achieved a minimum 2 GCSEs at grade A*-C (9-4) or equivalent in maths and English Language
  • Have achieved a minimum of 2 A-levelsgrades A-C or equivalent


Future prospects

Full timeemployment with further opportunities for development.

Things to consider

We will be holding assessment centres during the week commencing 12th August.

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