Supply Chain apprentice (GSC) - Pfizer
Cogent Ssc Limited
Kent (CT13 9ND)
Closes on Friday 20 March 2026
Posted on 15 January 2026
Contents
Summary
Pfizer is looking to recruit a Supply Chain apprentice to help support the interaction between all Pharma Business Units (BU’s) and the suppliers of their medicines through Pfizer Global Supply and Pfizer Global Supply Chain.
- Wage
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£20,500 a year
- Training course
- Supply chain leadership professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Thursday, 9am - 5.25pm. Fridays, 9am - 4.05pm
12pm - 12.45pm lunch break
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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3 years 6 months
- 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
- Leverage digital technologies to perform thorough data analysis to provide value to the business and support commercial strategies - visibility of accurate market inventory, sales and forecast information through the established replenishment systems and the tracking of all goods in-transit to ensure a timely delivery to market and accurate reflection within systems
- Product change management - ensuring critical regulatory changes to artworks are in production through Pfizer systems to meet with required implementation conditions in the market
- Supply assurance in collaboration with the Above Market Planning Hub and special project management. - ensuring out of stock and short stock incidents are well managed, communicated and mitigated as much as possible
- Inventory planning - ensuring that financial reporting of inventory provisions is accurate
- Meeting targets and metrics set globally and analysing deviations
- Responsible for demand forecasting - Planning and executing demand and supply strategies and tactics in partnership with commercial team
- Ensure compliance with Good Distribution Practice (GDP) regulations, to maintain the quality of the products and integrity of the distribution chain
Where you'll work
Discovery Park
Ramsgate Road
Sandwich
Kent
CT13 9ND
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SUPPLY CHAIN ACADEMY LIMITED
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
- Supply Chain Leadership Professional (integrated degree) Level 6
- Training for this apprenticeship will be a mixture of both online and in person learning
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
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
About this employer
As the specialists in skills for science and technology, our purpose is to make sure your business; your people and our industry are future ready. We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation with a family of commercially focused companies committed to supporting the skills, needs and ambitions across the UK science and technology sector.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be eligible to apply for other positions within the business.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SUPPLY CHAIN ACADEMY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000009045.
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Closes on Friday 20 March 2026
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