OUR PLACEMENTS

Placement summary

Enterprise Foods has an exciting placement for a graduate focusing on their Supply Chain management. This will be an excellent development opportunity for the sucesssful candidate who will manage sales, pricing and customer requests whilst learning about the business. This is a 12 month placement with view to permanent hire, based in East Kilbride.

Job description

Project Description

Project Description

We are an industry leader in the supply of local foods and operate a unique business model and supply chain within both Food Service and Convenience Retail markets.

Dynamic growth and a continually evolving operational environment means that the opportunity now exists for the right candidate to join the team responsible for managing all supply chain activities.

Liaising directly with both suppliers and customers and reporting to the Supply Chain Manager, this is a demanding role that will provide excellent opportunities for development. You will need to be proactive, meet deadlines, have the ability to communicate with people across a broad business environment and possess the drive and flexibility to work both independently and as part of a team.

Placement Objectives

Role Description:

The main objectives of this role are to:

• Keeping the invoice queue to a minimum by analysing and solving invoice issues
• Addition of new products using generic templates
• Adding, blocking and re-working of price sheet lines
• Running sales, purchase, finance reports
• Dealing with the request of the ROMS and Sales team
• Replying to customer requests ranging from item pricing to annual reports
• Dealing direct with customers and assisting with their requests and issues
• Accessing and navigating multiple ordering sites
• Negotiating prices with customers and suppliers
• Dealing with annual price increase.

Qualifications

Essential

Graduate from an HNC, HND, Undergraduate or Postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline.

Ideal

Due to the day-to-day tasks revolving around prices and percentages, a background in economics or finance would be preferable.

Skills / Experience

Essential Skills

The successful candidate will:

• Be highly numerate
• Possess good oral and written communication skills
• Have an aptitude for investigation and problem solving
• Possess the drive and flexibility to work both independently and as part of a team
• Have proactive organisational skills to meet deadlines
• Have a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Benefits

Company benefits

As part of the ScotGrad Graduate Placement Programme, the candidate will benefit from ongoing support from the ScotGrad team and may have access to training.

Placement benefits

As part of ScotGrad Graduate Placement Programme, the successful candidate will have access to a free two day business and employability skills residential course and also benefit from ongoing support from the ScotGrad team throughout the duration of the placement. 

Additional information

Location: East Kilbride

This placement may result in a permanent employment afterwards

Preferred start date: 11/12/2013

Company information

Enterprise Foods Ltd is an industry leader in the supply of local foods within both Food Service and Convenience Retail markets. We have developed a unique supply chain concept for the bakery sector and worked hard to become an industry leader. We bring the largest selection of bakery products to our customers and cover the length and breadth of the UK in our delivery capabilities.

Enterprise Foods offers a multitude of services to both its supply base and its customers. We offer services in Category Management, Technical, Innovation, Marketing, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management .

Company sector: Food and Drink

Company website: http://www.enterprisefoods.co.uk/