Chartered Management Degree Apprentice
AMAZON UK SERVICES LTD.
Ipswich (IP1 5BL)
Closes on Saturday 28 February 2026
Posted on 7 November 2025
Contents
Summary
Do you have the passion to inspire teams while shaping business success? Join Amazon as a Chartered Management Degree Apprentice and turn your leadership potential into real-world impact - all while earning a fully funded degree.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Working week Sunday - Wednesday or Wednesday - Saturday. May work night shift, day shift or evening shifts. Shifts TBC
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 21 September 2026
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- Positions available
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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
This role is the perfect way to embark on your career as a Chartered Manager. You’ll take on diverse responsibilities that develop your ability to make strategic decisions, collaborate effectively, and motivate teams to deliver results. With every challenge you tackle, you’ll refine your skills in communication, management, and the art of inspiring others.
You’ll work towards becoming a professional manager capable of handling complexity and delivering impact at both strategic and operational levels - mastering the intricacies of project management, financial acumen, innovation, and risk management. Most importantly, you’ll forge strong relationships with stakeholders, building your presence as a trusted and influential leader.
As a Chartered Management Degree Apprentice, you’ll take on a supervisory role from day one, gaining hands-on experience leading teams, managing operations, and making decisions that drive results. You’ll combine your academic learning with practical management experience, ensuring you can apply what you study directly in the workplace.
You’ll develop skills in leadership, communication, strategic planning, and business improvement - becoming a confident and capable manager ready to make a positive impact.
During Your Apprenticeship, You’ll Learn How To:
- Lead and supervise teams, overseeing day-to-day operations
- Support and develop team members through training, coaching, and mentoring
- Manage projects to achieve defined objectives and timelines
- Analyse business data to inform decisions and drive improvement
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders and build cross-functional relationships
- Develop and implement strategic plans aligned with business goals
- Identify and manage risks to ensure successful delivery
- Foster an inclusive, ethical, and high-performing work environment
A day in the life may include:
- Managing and supporting a team to deliver daily performance goals
- Coaching team members and conducting development discussions
- Analysing data to identify trends and inform operational improvements
- Participating in planning meetings to align goals and priorities
- Managing workflow, resource planning, and time-critical projects
- Supporting strategic initiatives to enhance customer experience and efficiency
- Collaborating with other managers to share best practices and drive innovation
- Balancing your studies with real-world application, dedicating 20% of your time to degree learning
- Applying new management theories to solve everyday operational challenges
Where you'll work
Amazon DIP1
Plot 16 Sproughton Enterprise Park
Ipswich
IP1 5BL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Training course
Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Support the development of organisational strategies and plans. Develop and deliver operational plans; being able to set targets and KPIs, manage resources, and monitor and measure outcomes to establish operational effectiveness, efficiencies and excellence. Produce reports that clearly present information and data, using a range of interpretation and analytical processes. Gain wide support to deliver successful outcomes
- Plan, organise and manage resources in order to achieve organisational goals. Identify key outcomes, develop and implement plans and monitor progress, and provide reports as required. Proactively identify risk and create plans for their mitigation. Able to initiate, lead and drive change within the organisation, identifying barriers/challenges and how to overcome them. Ability to use widely recognised project management tools
- Managing budgets, controlling expenditure and production of financial reports
- Use of customer insight and analysis of data to determine and drive customer service outcomes and improve customer relationships. Creative approaches to developing solutions to meet customer need
- Able to identify service/organisational improvements and opportunities for innovation and growth, using qualitative and quantitative analysis of information and data and benchmarking against others
- Communicate clearly, effectively and regularly using oral, written and digital channels and platforms. Use active listening and open questioning to structure conversations and discussions, and able to challenge when appropriate. Manage and chair meetings and clearly present actions and outcomes. Ability to apply influencing and persuading skills, to the dynamics and politics of personal interactions
- Able to articulate organisational purpose and values. Support the creation of an inclusive, high performance work culture. Enable others to achieve by developing and supporting them through coaching and mentoring
- Able to build teams, empower and motivate others to improve performance or achieve outcomes. Able to delegate to others, provide clear guidance and monitor progress. Ability to set goals and accountabilities
- Able to build rapport and trust, develop networks and maintain relationships with people from a range of cultures, backgrounds and levels. Able to contribute within a team environment. Effectively influence and negotiate, being able to have challenging conversations and give constructive feedback. Work collaboratively with internal and external customers and suppliers
- Able to reflect on own performance, identifying and acting on learning and development needs. Ability to understand impact on others. Can manage stress and personal well-being, and confident in knowing core values and drivers
- Able to create personal development plan, and use widely recognised tools and techniques to ensure the management of time and pressure effectively, and prioritisation and strategic alignment of activities
- Use evidence-based tools and ethical approaches to undertake problem solving and critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation to support decision making
Training schedule
At Amazon, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. You’ll learn by doing, applying new knowledge every day while supported by expert mentors and experienced project professionals.
This 42-month programme, starting in September 2026, combines on-the-job learning with structured study time, allowing you to work towards your L5 Operations Manager apprenticeship followed by Level 6 Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship and gain a BA (Hons) Business Management Professional Degree or BSc (Hons) Responsible Business Management
You’ll spend 80% of your time working in your business area and 20% on dedicated learning, which may include travel to a training centre depending on your provider’s location.
Our first-class coaching, tailored development opportunities, and challenging, rewarding work will empower you to reach new heights.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
A Level 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
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
Other requirements
The apprenticeship will involve working across different shifts over the course of 3 years to give apprentices a solid understanding of the business. Flexibility with working routines is desirable.
About this employer
Amazon offers a range of opportunities to suit candidates with different backgrounds, qualifications and career aspirations. That is why we believe it is the perfect place to learn new skills. We believe that building a culture that is welcoming and inclusive is integral to people doing their best work and is essential to what we can achieve as a company. We take steps to ensure our colleagues have a sense of belonging, value, and opportunity.
After this apprenticeship
Successful apprentices will go on to take up shift manager roles and progress quickly into more senior management within delivery stations.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000350402.
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Closes on Saturday 28 February 2026
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