Customer Service Apprentice - Supply Chain Ocean Imports

CCT WORLDWIDE LTD

Rochester, ME2 4FA

Closes in 16 days (Friday 11 October)

Posted on 25 September 2024

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Summary

The candidate will work within our customer service, ocean freight departments alongside their studies. You will learn the basics of the international supply chain business and will directly utilise that learning daily. You will gain experience as a logistics professional trained in ocean freight supply chain management.

Annual wage
£23,000 a year

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Training course
Supply chain leadership professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours
Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm

40 hours a week

Possible start date

Wednesday 1 January

Duration

4 Years

Positions available

2

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

  • Undertake daily communication with CCT overseas offices in Asia
  • Undertake daily communication with UK client base regarding live ocean import shipments
  • Explore and present cost effective ocean import solutions, both internally and to clients
  • Attend department meetings in person with CCT UK team and managers

Where you’ll work

Unit 13, Ashford House

Beaufort Court, Sir Thomas Longley Road

Rochester

ME2 4FA

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

ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION

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

    • BSc (Hons) Supply Chain Management
    • This is a part-time, blended, block release programme. Apprentices have a week's block teaching at the beginning of every trimester Anglia Ruskins Peterborough campus, and then fortnightly timetabled online webinars (three hours long) where apprentices are supported with their application of learning to the workplace, and their assessments.

    Requirements

    Essential qualifications

    GCSE in:

    • English and Maths (grade C/4)

    Desirable qualifications

    A Level in:

    • Any (grade 96 UCAS Points (CCC))
    • Any (grade 96 UCAS Points (MMM))

    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
    • Team working
    • Initiative

    Other requirements

    TO APPY - please send a CV and cover letter to johnd@cctworldwideltd.com We are looking for well rounded applicants, any evidence of additional skills or experiences, with or without awards achieved, would be reviewed favourably. Please note there will be a 2 round interview.

    About this company

    CCT Worldwide UK Ltd is the global HQ for the CCT Worldwide group, comprising companies in Asia and Europe as well as the UK. CCT is engaged in international supply chain management and transportation via modes ocean, air, road, and rail. Warehousing and fulfilment activities together with 3PL services comprise an important part of what CCT offers.

    https://cctworldwidelogistics.com/ (opens in new tab)

    After this apprenticeship

    Global secondment and UK leadership opportunities

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION

    John

    johnd@cctworldwideltd.com

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000279093.

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    Closes in 16 days (Friday 11 October)

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