Are you curious, ambitious, and ready to start your career in a fast-paced, global environment?

This is your opportunity to earn a degree, gain hands-on experience, and help shape the future of aerospace supply chains—all while getting paid.

• Earn while you learn — a starting salary of £23,500 and no student debt!
• Fully funded degree with real-world supply chain experience
• Industry-leading pension (up to 20%) and life assurance (8x salary)

About the Role

As a Supply Chain Leadership Degree Apprentice, you will rotate across key areas including Projects, Planning, Logistics, and Customer & Part Management.

During the programme, you will:

• Support production planning and scheduling, ensuring materials and resources meet delivery requirements
• Assist with demand forecasting, inventory planning, and capacity management
• Work with logistics teams to manage inbound and outbound flows, including transport and warehouse operations
• Support customer and part management, resolving shortages and supply chain disruptions
• Analyse supply chain performance data to identify trends and improvement opportunities
• Contribute to continuous improvement and transformation projects
• Collaborate with Procurement, Operations, and Quality to solve cross-functional challenges
• Maintain accurate data within systems such as ERP/SAP
• Develop a strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain operations

You’ll build knowledge and capability in:

• End-to-end supply chain planning and operations
• Demand forecasting, inventory optimisation, and capacity management
• Logistics and global material flow management
• Data analysis and ERP systems (e.g. SAP)
• Continuous improvement approaches such as Lean principles
• How supply chains enable on-time delivery and customer satisfaction
• The importance of collaboration, quality, and operational performance

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training Details

• Training provider: LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY
• Training course: Supply chain leadership professional (integrated degree) (level 6)

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What you'll learn

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