Supply Chain Leadership Apprentice
FENTON PACKAGING LTD
Leeds (LS9 0SH)
Closes in 10 days (Thursday 7 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 22 July 2025
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Summary
Join Fenton Packaging Limited and kickstart your career in supply chain leadership. You’ll gain a Bachelor’s degree while earning, develop in a supportive and fast-paced business, and get hands-on experience across logistics, procurement, and planning.
- Wage
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£15,213.25 to £24,603.15, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Supply chain leadership professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday
Shifts to be confirmed
38 hours and 45 Minutes per week
38 hours 45 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Working closely with the Assistant Head of Supply Chain and senior colleagues, the apprentice will:
- Assist with forecasting, planning, and ordering stock using our inventory systems
- Collaborate with warehouse, sales, and supplier teams to ensure timely and cost-effective operations
- Support data analysis and reporting to improve stock efficiency and supply chain performance
- Contribute to project work and procurement initiatives across the business
Where you'll work
Unit 1, Kinetic 45
New Market Lane
Leeds
LS9 0SH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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
Training schedule
Requirements
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
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this employer
Fenton Packaging Limited specialise in sourcing and supplying a wide range of products. We have a long history of supplying packaging to UK industry sectors, including food, dairy, pharmaceutical, and chemicals. Established in 1945, originally as a metal packaging manufacturer, we have transitioned over time into the business we are today. In 1922, the Company rebranded, changed our logo, and moved to our current home in Leeds.
After this apprenticeship
- A successful Apprentice may have the opportunity to progress into a senior leadership role within Fenton Packaging and its supply chain team
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY
Karen Kaye
karenkaye@fentonpackaging.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332890.
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Closes in 10 days (Thursday 7 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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