Plan, source, make & deliver
In a global company producing 150 million branded items every day, Supply Chain makes a massive impact on our success. All around the world, we face tough issues like transporting ice-lollies in China, transforming the world’s largest spreads factory or bringing an innovative new product to life. So, our Supply Chain function manages all stages of the process known as 'plan, source, make and deliver' – everything from sourcing raw materials to ensuring products reach the shelf.
Supply management
Supply Management involves astute sourcing of materials and goods – a process which can greatly reduce our costs whilst maintaining our responsiveness. Here, you’ll be working closely with our suppliers, liasing and building partnerships between them and our business, and getting involved in new product roll-outs.
Manufacturing
In Manufacturing, you'll help us uphold our great reputation - some of our factories are considered the best in their country. So your challenge here will be to ensure products are made as efficiently as possible, and help factories adapt to changing consumer needs. You'll be responsible for teams running production lines, getting them to focus on quality, output and costs, and you might also spend time in Engineering, where you'll be responsible for designing, building and maintaining high-speed production lines.
Deliver
In Deliver you may be working in warehousing and distribution where you'll play a lead role in ensuring the finished products are delivered to our retailers, while consistently promoting great customer service. Alternatively you may be part of the customer supply chain team responsible for working with our customers to deliver excellent customer service day in day out whilst also collaborating on supply chain initiatives which will improve the performance of the supply chain into the future and drive advances through the industry.
Plan
In Plan this all gets pulled together to ensure we have a responsive, cohesive, well oiled supply chain doing the rights things at the right time to drive customer service excellence. We use thousands of materials to make thousands of products – all of which have to be delivered to the right place in the right quantity. You’ll be responsible for developing plans and working as a central part of an extended team to make this happen, using the most advanced technology.
What will you do?
Over four placements, you'll gain exposure to several production sites and head office operations. These could include project engineering, planning, buying, customer supply chain innovation and a team leadership role at a factory. You could also have the opportunity to work internationally. During your career you’re likely to work in most areas of the Supply Chain as well as related areas like Quality Assurance, Product and Process Technology and Safety, Health and Environment. In time your career could take you to any of our international operations in roles with an operational or strategic focus.
Engineering graduates – chartered engineer status
Whichever engineering institution you want to join - the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Electrical Engineers or Mechanical Engineers - we'll fully support you in gaining chartered status through our accredited training scheme. When you join us you'll be assigned a mentor who is already a Chartered Engineer, whose role will be to guide you through your training and experience plan.
Other externally recognised qualifications
Training and development is a key part of the UGLP. Not only will you get this on the job, but there is also a vast array of e-learning material and internal courses available to support your development. In addition to this there are options to gain externally recognised qualification through bodies such as APICS and Institute of Transport and Logistics.
What have recent trainees done?
- worked as a Team Leader responsible for 60 people in the production unit of our Colman's factory
- worked as a demand planner forecasting the sales of one of our product portfolios
- worked as a Project Engineer at the world's largest margarine factory
- worked in Germany to improve the line efficiencies in one of our Laundry product factories.
- worked with a major supermarket managing a project to improve On Shelf availability of our products using TPM techniques
- acting as the supply chain coordinator to bring the Wallace and Grommit mugs to market
- been involved in a major transformation project at one of Europe's largest ice-cream factory
- worked in Belgium to recommend optimum stock levels which reduced costs whilst improving customer service
Who is it for?
We have a strong preference for a degree or masters in Engineering, Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations Management, Maths, Science, Finance or Business Administration. In addition a second language or a willingness to learn one would be an advantage. You'll also need to be passionate about delivering for the business, have clear thinking which will guide you to make sound decisions, have an ability to work with a real cross section of people and have a desire to develop your potential as a future leader in Unilever’s supply chain. Could that be you?
Could this be you?
- do you often see ways of doing things better? And can you then take action and influence others to make these ideas happen?
- would you get a buzz out of seeing the results of your hard work on the supermarket shelf?
- can you analyse facts and come to important decisions based on them? And can you stand by those decisions?
- are you a natural leader, able to work with people at all levels in a business and build relationships across departments and countries?
- would you enjoy doing a range of jobs - such as leading a team of people on night shift or planning the launch of a new product?
If your answer is yes to the above, please click on the link to apply!
