Supply Chain Apprentice at Mettler-Toledo Ltd

Summary

We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join Mettler-Toledo Ltd, an international company that values innovation and diversity, by kickstarting your career with a Supply Chain apprenticeship.

Annual wage: £17,000 a year
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Training course: Procurement and supply assistant (level 3)
Hours: Monday - Friday, shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date: Thursday 2 January
Duration: 1 year 6 months
Positions available: 1

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

You will be developed into a Material Controller to ensure timely delivery of materials to support our production and spare part delivery schedules. Beyond this you will also be involved in the purchase to pay process, chair team meetings, and develop and expand stakeholder engagement with a focus on communication skills.

If you have strong organisational and analytics skills, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!

The apprentice will report to the Purchasing Manager and sit within the Supply Chain department with day-to-day contact with the Technical Buyer/ Purchasing Manager.

Key responsibilities:

Regularly review suppliers’ delivery schedules and expedite materials to ensure timely on-time delivery of materials.
Review material requirement planning software and act on exception messages to balance demand and supply by rescheduling line items where necessary.
Proactively communicate supply or supplier risks to the planning team and work with different stakeholders to develop mitigation plans for supply risks.
Champion the supplier management policy, ensuring that reasons for late deliveries are recorded and work with the procurement team to ensure delivery performance is managed in line with supplier management policy.
Work with cross-functional teams to manage material master data to ensure accuracy.
Prepare and lead the Purchasing Daily Meeting to review material shortages and late deliveries against expected targets.
Process vendor's return orders and communicate with the logistics team the urgency of these so that they can be returned promptly.

Where you’ll work

Mettler Toledo Safeline X-Ray Ltd, Greenfield

Royston

SG8 5HN

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

THE WKCIC GROUP

Your training course

Procurement and supply assistant (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Monitor and order products, stock, equipment and services at appropriate times using the appropriate procurement method.
Communicate to procurement's internal stakeholders, suppliers and other stakeholders in order to develop effective relationships and networks
Create, maintain and amend purchase order and contract records.
Interpret, evaluate and compare procurement information such as historical spend and usage using databases and spreadsheets.
Present findings and data in all formats e.g. mathematically, written and oral.
Determine value for money (VFM) and added value through the use of Total Cost of Ownership during the evaluation process, and apply the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT) criteria to the evaluation of quotes and tenders to support the recommendation at award. This may include the inclusion of green, low carbon, sustainability, and ethical criteria.
Utilise relevant Procurement computer systems or internal databases.
Select the supplier of the most appropriate products and services for purchases within their remit and place purchase order.
Undertake appraisal of adhoc and low spend suppliers including setting them up on the purchasing system.
Effectively research and analyse demand, spend, trends, potential suppliers and industries utilising qualitative and quantitative methods.
Develop specifications of requirements and requests for quotes/tenders in line with organisational requirements.
Apply considerations of responsible procurement in evaluating potential suppliers, quotes and tenders.
Investigate and resolve purchase order, delivery and invoice queries.
Own low risk value projects such as supply contracts for stationery, personal protective equipment (PPE) or other consumables, and contribute to higher risk activities such as contracts for building services or machinery, and track, log, expedite and review outstanding orders and stock availability where applicable.
Maintain knowledge on all open orders and their status' and provide assistance to all purchasing staff e.g. expediting and feeding information back to the relevant stakeholders.
Able to consider the impact of the decision making process when interacting with the supply chain.
Able to support the contract negotiations and mini competitions with suppliers.
Monitor and order products, stock, equipment and services at appropriate times using the appropriate procurement method.
Communicate to procurement's internal stakeholders, suppliers and other stakeholders in order to develop effective relationships and networks
Create, maintain and amend purchase order and contract records.
Interpret, evaluate and compare procurement information such as historical spend and usage using databases and spreadsheets.
Present findings and data in all formats e.g. mathematically, written and oral.
Determine value for money (VFM) and added value through the use of Total Cost of Ownership during the evaluation process, and apply the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT) criteria to the evaluation of quotes and tenders to support the recommendation at award. This may include the inclusion of green, low carbon, sustainability, and ethical criteria.
Utilise relevant Procurement computer systems or internal databases.
Select the supplier of the most appropriate products and services for purchases within their remit and place purchase order.
Undertake appraisal of adhoc and low spend suppliers including setting them up on the purchasing system.
Effectively research and analyse demand, spend, trends, potential suppliers and industries utilising qualitative and quantitative methods.
Develop specifications of requirements and requests for quotes/tenders in line with organisational requirements.
Apply considerations of responsible procurement in evaluating potential suppliers, quotes and tenders.
Investigate and resolve purchase order, delivery and invoice queries.
Own low risk value projects such as supply contracts for stationery, personal protective equipment (PPE) or other consumables, and contribute to higher risk activities such as contracts for building services or machinery, and track, log, expedite and review outstanding orders and stock availability where applicable.
Maintain knowledge on all open orders and their status' and provide assistance to all purchasing staff e.g. expediting and feeding information back to the relevant stakeholders.
Able to consider the impact of the decision making process when interacting with the supply chain.
Able to support the contract negotiations and mini competitions with suppliers.

Your training plan

Commercial Procurement and Supply Level 3
Training schedule has yet to be agreed. Details will be made available at a later date.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (grade 4)

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

Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills

Other requirements

Mettler-Toledo headquarters is located in Switzerland. SLXR manufacturing site is located in Royston, UK. Production core working hours from 9am – 2pm need to be covered. First relationships will be with internal stakeholders and then move to a combination of internal and external. Pay: Annual base min £17,000, Annual base max £23,000

About this company

SLXR is part of the production inspection division of Mettler-Toledo. At Royston we manufacture engineered to order and standard configured machines for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical manufacturers worldwide. METTLER TOLEDO Safeline x-ray inspection systems offer safety and quality assurance at every stage of the production process for raw, bulk-flow (loose), pumped and packaged products.

After this apprenticeship

You can progress onto a Junior Buyer, or lateral movements are possible.

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