McCormick UK Graduate Programme - Supply Chain
McCormick
- Haddenham, Cambridgeshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Immersive Rotations: Gain exposure to diverse departments
- Mentorship: Receive one-on-one guidance from top-tier professionals
- Real-World Challenges: Tackle projects that have a global impact
- Networking: Build connections with a global community of future leaders
- Accelerated Growth: Fast-track your career with a structured development plan
- Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary and fantastic benefits
- Strong Technical or Commercial degree preferred - predicted 2:1 or above
- Demonstration of commercial acumen, desire to work in an international business and corporate environment
- Leadership potential: we are looking for talented future leaders who want to and can make a big difference to McCormick
- Able to analyse and present accurate basic statistical data to a broad range of individuals
- A strong team player, able to build effective, collaborative relationships
- A highly driven individual, with strong learning agility, open to new challenges and happy to work with cross functional teams and cultures
- A vibrant individual, who is capable of quick decision-making, with the confidence and drive to make a positive difference to their work environment
- Be adaptable, open to change, and ready to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Fluent English speaker and a second language would be advantageous
- Interested in a career in the food industry
- Directly owning spend categories to create a sourcing strategy and drive value
- Working with Category Heads to drive Strategy in the region by engaging stakeholders and owning key elements of the strategy delivery
- Working with stakeholders across multiple functions to make a positive difference to procurement's value add to the business - e.g., operations, logistics, marketing, finance, to influence and drive positive changes and decisions
- Owning change projects with our supply base that will make a big difference to how we manage our external spend, increasing efficiency and/or reduce complexity
- Working with the Operations Management team, to develop key operational and best-practice skills within the food manufacturing environment
- Experiencing the role of Team Leader from time-to-time, to help you develop and grow as an individual and attain the skills required for the next level of management
- Supporting the Team Leader in prioritizing the activities of the team, driving Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Identifying Continuous Improvement projects and working with cross-functional teams using best-practice manufacturing techniques such as LEAN, Kaizen and SMED techniques
- Adhering to Health & Safety practices, using our behavioural safety programme 'Dupont Safestart', and ensuring your team operates within our 'safe systems of work'
- Full ownership and management of a small portfolio of finished goods or materials including planning, communication and issue resolution with supply chain, operations, procurement, suppliers, and the customer in a timely and accurate manner.
- Manage a supply chain project working cross functionally to deliver a cost/ time benefit to the business.
- Learn and explore new systems / reports to leverage new information for the planning team
- Undertake an end to end value stream mapping of the co-packing supply chain initially focused on the UK market with the potential to extend across Europe.
- Identify opportunities to optimise the supply chain from a cost, service and agility perspective. The scope includes NPD, promotions and standard skus with product supply from France, Poland, UK and external co-manufacturing.
- Assess the opportunities and make recommendations for eliminating co-packing activities - examples may be ensuring the product is made in the factories shelf ready, in-housing the external co-packing activities, etc.
- Development of a small scale CCI/ Quality improvement project
- Supporting ongoing commissioning activities of process / packaging lines on site
- Coordination of x-functional teams on project execution for small scale projects/ tests/ trials
- Rotations will also offer the opportunity to experience routine maintenance in a plant environment