Flow Room Manager Apprenticeship - (Days) - Level 6 BSc Supply Chain and Logistics
ROYAL MAIL GROUP LIMITED
Crick (NN6 7HQ)
Closes in 13 days (Tuesday 7 July 2026)
Posted on 24 June 2026
Contents
Summary
Join Royal Mail as a Flow Room Manager Apprentice at our Midlands Super Hub and learn how to help one of the UK’s most important logistics networks run safely, smoothly and on time.
You’ll work with live data, automated parcel sorting systems, and teams across the site to help keep parcels, trailers and automation moving.
- Wage
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£24,100 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
£24,100, rising to £28,300 years 1 to 4.
This apprenticeship is designed to prepare you to apply for management roles on site, currently starting from £36,353. - Training course
- Supply chain leadership professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Day shift, working patterns across a 7-day operation, generally between 07:00 and 19:00. Weekend working can be expected.
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 24 August 2026
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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3
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
The Flow Room is the place where live operational information comes together.
Duties will include:
- You’ll learn how to monitor parcel flow, spot bottlenecks, support decisions, coordinate responses to faults and work with teams across the site to keep the operation moving
- Monitor parcel flow through automated parcel sorting systems
- Use live data to identify issues and support quick decision-making
- Learn how to use systems such as SCADA, yard management systems, warehouse systems and Automated Guided Vehicle operating systems
- Work with operations, engineering, transport and control teams
- Help prioritise faults, blockages and system issues
- Support trailer and yard flow across the site
- Contribute to continuous improvement activity and better ways of working
Where you'll work
Royal Mail Midlands Super Hub
Dirft Drive
Crick
NN6 7HQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF WALES: TRINITY SAINT DAVID
Training course
Supply chain leadership professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
- As part of the apprenticeship, you’ll study online with University of Wales Trinity Saint David towards a BSc Supply Chain and Logistics qualification
- The programme runs over four academic years of part-time study and includes topics such as data analytics, lean thinking, organisational management, warehousing and inventory operations, capacity planning, logistics technologies, supply chain operations, supply chain technologies and risk management
- No regular travel is required for study
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A levels, BTEC or equivalent in:
GCSE or Essential Skills in:
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
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this employer
At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses. We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs. Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate. For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- This is a permanent apprenticeship designed to help you build the skills, confidence and experience needed for future management opportunities at Royal Mail
- On successful completion, you’ll be well placed to apply for management roles on site, which currently start from £36,353
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY OF WALES: TRINITY SAINT DAVID
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000038950.
Apply now
Closes in 13 days (Tuesday 7 July 2026)
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