Supply Chain Degree Apprenticeship
Job Description
JDE is looking for talented and confident individuals with collaborative and entrepreneurial approach who will join our supply chain team from our North Oxfordshire, Banbury site to make a real impact with our customers. The Apprenticeship Programme is an exciting opportunity to shape your career and help you reach your full potential. We do this by offering exposure to a breadth of experiences including data analysis, root causing, customer forecasting, service reporting & driving collaboration with our Commercial contacts. Your responsibilities will evolve over the course of your apprenticeship.
Responsibilities: The apprenticeship programme
- As is common practise with apprenticeships, you will the majority of your time gaining experience within roles across the supply chain functions and 6 hours a week studying, self-learning or with our partner university.
- This study time will primarily be online from home, with block release for in person lectures and workshops roughly once per quarter. All travel & accommodation is covered by JDE.
- In your first year you will learn the principles of supply chain including finance, operations, planning, forecasting and demand management.
- Starting in Customer Service and gaining critical experience and/or rotating into key Supply Chain areas including: Demand Planning, Logistics, Material Planning and Co-Pack in order to set you up as a fully rounded supply chain expert!
- At the conclusion of the course you will have reached the required standard to receive a full Bachelors degree from a UK University in addition to membership of a professional body.
- Further information on the apprenticeship standard is available here: https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/supply-chain-leadership-professional-degree/
Qualifications
In order to be eligible to apply for this apprenticeship, you must have or be predicted to achieve 3 A Levels A-C in any subject or a BTEC with Distinction, Merit, Merit (or equivalent).
You must also have a /GCSE qualification at grade 4/C or above in both Maths and English.
- Excellent people skills and the ability to influence.
- Quick learner who is able to build relationships
- Confidence to share new ideas and create change
- People who thrive on challenges with good organisational skills
- Motivation: A passion and drive to achieve results with bags of energy
- Tenacity: Focused on achieving personal and business goals.
- A flexible approach with the ability to work with a demanding agenda and prioritise tasks
- High personal standards and constantly looking for improvements and a better way forward
- A team player who can look at the whole picture and seek to positively influence it
- Good numerical ability
Additional Information
We are interested in candidates for a January 2023 Start date at this time. We will open applications for a September 2023 start date in early January
For more than 265 years, JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS (JDE) is inspired by its belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee or tea. We are fuelled by our purpose of unleashing the possibilities of coffee and tea to create a better future. Today, our coffee & tea portfolio is available in more than 100 developed and emerging markets, through a portfolio of over 50 brands that collectively cover the entire category landscape led by leading household names such as L’OR, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, Old Town, Super, Pickwick and Moccona.
JDE is part of JDE Peet’s, the world’s largest pure-play coffee and tea company, headquartered in The Netherlands.
What’s it like to work at JDE?
We are proud of our passionate, driven associates that challenge the status quo and pursue mastery in everything they do. Our goal is simple and ambitious – JDE: A coffee & tea for every cup.
At JDE, we're Made to Stand Out. Every day we are progressive in outlook, ambitious in nature, resourceful in action and decisive in approach, bringing coffee and tea moments to everyone around the world.