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Are you practical, eager to learn, and looking for a career with real progression opportunities? We're looking for a motivated Supply chain practitioner to join our growing team.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
The following is what you would be expected to cover to fulfil your role:
- Customer service
- Costings
- Procurement
- Legislation
- Policies & procedures
- Planning and organisation
- Communicating with Production Manager and other members of the team
- Interpersonal skills
- Continuous improvement
- Problem solving
Where you'll work
UNIT 19
HOBLEY DRIVE
STRATTON
SWINDON
SN3 4NS
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPIF TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Supply chain practitioner (fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)) (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Manage the flow of fast-moving consumer goods products or services based on evolving and changing information.
- Use standard operating procedures.
- Support customers with supply chain enquiries.
- Use IT systems for the supply chain; Company and customer systems. Applies cyber security and GDPR regulations and policies.
- Use continuous improvement techniques in the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain.
- Lead and participate in problem solving activities: 5 whys, fishbone analysis.
- Use capacity planning to inform fast-moving consumer goods supply chain processes.
- Apply team working principles.
- Escalate issues and tasks.
- Analyse data against supply chain key performance indicators to identify trends and themes that affect the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain.
- Plan and adhere to customer lead times.
- Use data analysis outcomes to inform decision making in the supply chain function.
- Develop and implement a supply plan, for example, supply planning, production planning, demand planning, operations planning - logistics, commercial planning.
- Use order management tools to capture customer orders.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, colleagues and stakeholders.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
- Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, standards, and guidance.
- Follow equity, diversity, and inclusion principles.
- Apply quality assurance procedures.
- Identify and document hazards and risks in the workplace. Apply control measures.
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic; risk assessments, handover documents, work sheets, checklists, and any legal reporting requirements.
- Comply with sustainability principles and regulations including efficient use of resources, recycling, reuse and safe disposal of waste.
- Identify, organise and use resources, including team members, to plan and complete tasks, with consideration for cost and quality.
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Training schedule
Throughout your apprenticeship you will be supported by experienced staff at Eclipse Labels Limited and BPIF Training. Your training will be delivered through onsite and remote sessions at our established plant in Swindon, Wiltshire.
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Positive attitude
- Good time keeping
- Enthusiasm
- Working using own initiative
Eclipse Labels is a leading UK label printer, and we aim to offer our customers a quality product with excellent service with our flexibility and professional standards underpinning our quality and service.
We offer both Flexo Print and digital inkjet print using our latest high specification digital inkjet label press. This new technology supports our quality product offering our customers the best in look, feel, quality and price.
Our aims are to:
- Offer a professional and exemplary service to our customers with a high level of customer focus.
- Offer a fast turnaround service to ensure our client’s delivery needs are met.
- Offer excellence in everything we do.
- Create a work environment where each person is value and respected.
- Continue to build on our business to maintain and develop our position as a market leader.
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Delivering customer value and a first rate service to customers are two of our core aims and it reflects our business purpose and philosophy. It underpins our objective to be recognised as a leader in our market and shapes our behaviour and is the basis of our business culture.
We achieve our aims and objectives by:
- Empowering our employees by recognising that every employee can contribute to improving our business performance and aim to fulfil their own potential through training and experience.
- Continuous improvement in quality of our products, services and processes.
- Expanding our customer base, broadening our range of products and services and by driving increased productivity and efficiency in our operations through training and investment in technology.
- Complying with statutory, regulatory and other industry requirements.
- Ensuring the health, safety and welfare of all our employees by providing the resources necessary to safeguard the working environment to prevent injury and ill health.
We will use our management review process to ensure that our progress and drive for improvement and our business objectives are monitored and reviewed.
https://eclipselabels.com/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Private Health care – (after 4 years of service)
- Contributions towards Gym membership
- Onsite Parking
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
After successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be offered a full-time permanent position within the company.
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPIF TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000049672.
Closes in 23 days (Friday 18 September 2026 at 11:59pm)
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