Graduate Supply Chain Jobs
Supply Chain is a pivotal function within Nestlé and has been for more than a decade. Our role is to work closely with our customers and our internal colleagues to not only efficiently deliver product on time but to forecast our short and longer term business plans, purchase sustainable solutions competitively, collaborate with customers to create shared value, and help the community. We’re heavily involved in initiatives such as working with Fairshare and leading the way with targeted road mile reduction; whether that's vehicles delivering supplies to us or products from us to our customers. Apply for our Graduate Supply Chain Jobs.
Our Supply Chain graduates have both responsibility and opportunity from the onset. After a really comprehensive induction which ranges from spending time with Paul Grimwood, our CEO, to jumping on a lorry and spending a day with a delivery driver, our graduates are appointed to the first of their three six-month placements. Here you will start to gain an insight into the running of our business whilst doing a "real" job.
Typical roles could include:
- A Demand Planner in the Confectionery division based in York, working with the rest of the business to predict demand; essential in providing best in class customer service whilst enabling us to reduce our inventory
- Being involved in taking orders from customers; perhaps working with them to phase seasonal confectionery deliveries
- Running a warehouse shift, ensuring a hundred vehicles a day go out on time day in day out
- Being part of our Ensure Supply Team in York or Croydon who work with factories across Europe or co-packers across the UK
- Joining one of our Purchasing teams.
Whichever your role or wherever your location, you’ll become actively involved in NCE – Nestlé Continuous Excellence - which is an exciting new way of doing things, aligning our business goals and rolling out Lean Enterprise thinking throughout the Nestlé globe. Supply Chain and Manufacturing Operations are pioneering this in the UK
Throughout the placements, as you change roles and probably location, we work hard to settle our graduates into a role with on the job training and a buddy for day to day support as well as giving you clear objectives and support throughout the placement. There is a strong network with graduates across other elements of the business and there's plenty of networking opportunity on a broader basis, both in the UK, across Europe and the rest of the world. One thing they can be sure of is that a world of opportunity is there for the taking. Our Supply Chain Directors for Nestlé Canada and Nestlé Australia both came through the graduate programme, as did the UK Nespresso Supply Chain Manager!
