Supply Chain Apprentice

Overview

The Supply Chain is at the heart of every business - it is a system of organisations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in moving products or services from supplier to customer; a lot more than just moving parts from A to B! You will develop a comprehensive understanding of the entire supply chain, consider the effect of clear demand and specification management on each function, and strive to deliver the best value for the business.

Due to the high number of interactions across multiple functions within the business, you will need strong relationship building, influencing, stakeholder management and communication skills alongside sound analytical, information technology and numeracy skills, with an ability to work in a fast‑paced environment with frequently changing requirements. You will directly be adding performance to the car, by enabling a faster and more dynamic supply chain, leading to a higher rate of development and facilitates compressed build programmes.

Achieve more, in less time. Our apprentice programmes will commence in September 2026. While you will be a part of the Programme Management function, during the 3‑year scheme, you will also spend time getting hands on experience in other supply chain functions, to gain a full understanding and appreciation of the entire supply chain process. This will likely include, but not exclusive to, the following functions:

• Manufacturing Scheduling
• Purchasing
• Internal Logistics
• Programme Delivery
• Finance

• Develop a thorough and well‑rounded understanding of our Formula 1 supply chain, from design release through to component delivery, understanding the shortfalls and identifying opportunities for improvement
• Create and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across different areas of the business, including both Operations and Engineering functions.
• Demand forecasting: provide long term order strategies and coverage for the supply chain to manage
• Implementing Engineering change, ensuring the revised plan is clear to the supply chain
• Bill of Material control. Linked to the engineering change, making sure that the list we build from is calling for the correct parts and is constructed correctly.
• Financial transparency: clear segregation of source demand between programmes is critical, to optimise our effectiveness in a cost cap environment, ensuring we maximise the budget for adding performance
• Be the ambassador for enforcing supply chain best practices, creating a wider understanding of planning efficiency and adopting common approaches
• Control obsolescence; through heightened sensitivity to specification volatility, offering possible obsolescence and re‑use use‑up strategies
• Be able to develop our planning‑based tools and MRP system (SAP), creating bespoke code and transactions to implement automation opportunities, thus improving overall supply chain efficiency
• Implement cost‑effective shortage elimination strategies, especially for high‑consumption consumable items, whilst minimising the possible impact on obsolescence
• Responsiveness and willingness to change; demonstrates and encourages curiosity, to foster new ways of thinking and working, to ensure economic benefits are maximised
• Demonstrate exceptional levels of organisation, working at a significant pace, without compromising on outstanding attention to detail
• Pride in work; aims for excellence, extraordinary time management, adherence to deadlines
• Have courage/conviction in their decisions and demonstrates ownership of work
• Builds strong relationships with others, works collaboratively, contributes ideas and challenges appropriately, leads by example
• Tenacious approach to problem‑solving by working to identify and ensure root causes are resolved, to ensure supply chains remain flexible and agile
• Highly effective communicator, with all levels of stakeholders: always acting with integrity and respect

• Completing the Supply chain practitioner (fast‑moving consumer goods (FMCG)) level 3 qualification during the 3‑year scheme
• Modules include various Risk, Change and Project Management techniques to ensure a…