Supply Chain Apprentice

Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive company in England seeks apprentices for their Supply Chain program, commencing in September 2026. This 3-year program offers hands-on experience across various supply chain functions, focusing on key responsibilities like demand forecasting and developing stakeholder relationships. Ideal candidates should have 5 GCSEs at grades C or above and possess strong analytical and communication skills. A starting salary of £21,000, along with performance bonuses and benefits, is offered.

Benefits

Starting salary of £21,000

Performance bonus

Podium bonus based on F1 results

36 days annual leave

Private healthcare and pension scheme

Staff discounts

Qualifications

• Understanding the entire supply chain process.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing requirements.
• Goal-setting in performance and time management.

Responsibilities

• Develop a thorough understanding of the Formula 1 supply chain.
• Create and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Demand forecasting for long-term order strategies.
• Implement Engineering changes clearly to the supply chain.
• Ensure Bill of Material control.

Skills

Strong relationship building

Influencing skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Information technology skills

Numeracy skills

Education

5 GCSEs at grades C or above

Level 2 functional skills in Maths, Science & English

Tools

SAP

Job description

Background on the role

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.

Key Functions

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

As an apprentice in the business you will be working towards and completing the Supply chain practitioner (fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)) level 3 qualification. Further details of the specific modules that will be studied as part of the qualification are detailed below. This qualification will also link in various Risk, Change and Project Management techniques to ensure the apprentice has a well-rounded knowledge base for any potential future role in the Programme Management function.

You will also be added to the 3 day Professional Foundation Qualification in Programme Management as part of your development.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Key Behaviours

• 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

Our Benefit Package Includes

• A starting salary of £21,000 increasing periodically dependant on performance.
• Performance bonus,
• Podium bonus based on F1 results
• 36 days annual leave
• Access to private healthcare and generous pension scheme
• A variety of other benefits and staff discounts.

Prior Qualifications

• For you to have achieved 5 GCSE’s at grades equivalent to a C or above (4 - 9) in Maths and English
• Level 2 functional skills in Maths, Science & English are desirable

The Application Process

• Submit your on-line application, CV and covering letter
  • Within this we would like to learn as much about you as possible. Tell us about your hobbies and passions; related and unrelated to the scheme or degree you are studying as this will help you stand out against candidates that may have the same qualifications and grades as you.
  • Please remember to list the grades you have achieved against the respective qualifications, employment and project experience.
  • As part of our Diversity and Inclusion policy please do not put a photo of yourself on your CV.
• Your application will be screened by HR and the hiring manager
• If successful you will be invited to attend an Assessment Centre which will take place between February – April 2026
• If successful your scheme will start September 2026

We recognise that the ideal candidate for this role may not meet every requirement in this advert and understand that some applicants are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Here at Mercedes AMG HPP our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring are critical to our success. HPP does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status or group or class protected by any local law and we encourage applications from any background.

During your application process we are committed to providing additional support where it may be needed. If you need additional financial support to help attend Assessment Centres and Interviews you can apply to be considered to receive our Interview Travel Bursary which will provide full reimbursement for any travel expenses incurred. At the point of a successful invitation to interview please raise this with your Recruitment contact at HPP.

Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, there may be periods of time where you don’t hear anything from us. Don’t worry! We will advise you of the outcome of your application regardless of the result so please bear with us. Please be advised that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to applicants, apologies for any inconvenience.