Supply Chain apprentice

Notjustlabcoats; Redditch; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical organization in the UK is seeking a Supply Chain Apprentice to support various functions within the supply chain. Responsibilities include leveraging digital tools for data analysis, demand forecasting, and ensuring compliance with Good Distribution Practice regulations. Applicants should have GCSEs in Maths and English and three A Levels. This apprenticeship lasts 42 months, offering a competitive salary of £20,500 along with various benefits such as holiday allowance and flexible working hours.

Benefits

25.5 Days Holiday Allowance

Employee Pension Scheme (5% employee, 3% employer)

Flexible Working Hours

Casual Dress Policy

Employee Discount Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Onsite Canteen

Onsite Parking

Employee Recognition/Awards

Qualifications

• Must have GCSE Maths and English at Grade 4/C or Level 2 equivalent.
• Must have three A Levels at CCC or above or equivalent Btec.

Responsibilities

• Leverage digital technologies for data analysis to support commercial strategies.
• Conduct product change management and ensure compliance with regulatory changes.
• Collaborate on inventory planning and demand forecasting.
• Ensure compliance with Good Distribution Practice regulations.

Skills

Teamwork

Fast learner

Self-starter

Creativity

Digitally literate

Good communicator

Education

At least Grade 4 or C GCSE Maths and English or Level 2 equivalent

Three A Levels at CCC or above, or equivalent Btec

Tools

SAP

IBP

SupplyIQ

Job description

Pfizer Supply Chain Apprentice

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.

Qualification Requirements

• At least Grade 4 or C GCSE Maths and English or Level 2 equivalent plus
• Three A Levels at CCC or above, or equivalent Btec.

Salary – £20,500 per annum

Benefits

• Holiday Allowance – 25.5 Days Holiday Allowance, plus Bank Holidays
• Pension – Employee 5%, Employer 3%
• Flexible Working Hours
• Casual Dress
• Discount Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Onsite Canteen
• Onsite Parking
• Employee Recognition/Awards

Location – Pfizer Ltd, Discovery Park House, Ramsgate Road, Sandwich, Kent, CT13 9NJ

Working Hours
Monday to Thursday, 9am – 5.25pm. Fridays, 9am – 4.05pm
12pm - 12.45pm lunch break

Duration – 42 months

Start Date – 1st September 2026

Interview Date – The assessment centre for this role will be held on 14th April 2026

Closing Date for Applications – 20th March 2026

To Apply

To apply, please click the Apply Now button and complete the form. If you are having difficulty in completing this, please contact recruitment on [e-mail] for assistance.

Next Steps

Successful candidates will be progressed to a one‑way video interview, invites will be sent via email. The video interview will be reviewed by the Hiring Manager.

Job Description

Pfizer Global Supply Chain (GSC), part of the Global Supply organization (PGS), is a source of competitive advantage for Pfizer, driven by patient needs, and enabled through integrated, digitised, and autonomous platforms. PGS is on a mission to be the premier, innovative, biopharmaceutical global supply organisation, delivering value.

Our purpose is to supply high‑quality breakthrough products to patients that significantly improve their lives. Our objective, is to ensure continued strength of PGS’s value proposition, increase flexibility, build ability to adapt over time, and enhance capabilities to deliver recognised value and transform into a world‑class supply organisation. Our aspiration is quality/compliance/safety, and we never compromise them as we work to achieve supply reliability. Ensuring quality of our products, compliance of our actions and operations and safety of our colleagues and communities always comes first!

Job Responsibilities

• 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.

Key Accountabilities

• 1. Key accountability – Forecasting
  • Support the local S&OP process for medium to large size markets with medium to advanced portfolio complexity with cross‑functional team participation to ensure mutual accountability, visibility and alignment on key decisions to ensure supply continuity.
  • Generate optimum demand forecast for assigned product portfolio using commercial insights, over multiple time horizons.
  • Update the forecast as frequently as required within the month, with a deadline of each month end for submission to the manufacturing site. Utilise statistical forecast modelling to automate demand planning where possible in collaboration with the Above Market Forecasting teams.
  • Key user of the SAP IBP forecasting system.
  • Maintain regular contact with key stakeholders and contributors to the forecast, including Marketing, Commercial, European Trade Group, Supply Policy Team, Sales, Replenishment Centre and Customer Services. Travel to other Pfizer locations will be required.
  • Attend Tender Review meetings and review tender submissions and documentation in a timely manner. Co‑ordinate with supplying plants to ensure ability to meet additional demands and increase forecasts as necessary. Highlight any barriers or delays.
  • Use sales history reports to pro‑actively address items with forecast error above GSC benchmark.
  • Perform a quarterly comparison of forecast against financial forecasts to understand and document significant differences. Partner with commercial and finance teams to align unit and financial forecasts and ensure clear rationalisation for gaps.
  • Performance measures: monthly forecast review meetings, forecast error and bias targets, quarterly analysis against financial forecasts, investigation of significant gaps.
• 2. Key accountability – Supply Planning and Inventory Management
  • Ensures visibility of accurate market inventory, sale and forecast information through the established replenishment systems (SAP, IBP and SupplyIQ).
  • Monitors inventory levels. Follows up on delivery plans and product release, coordinating with Plants, Supply Points, market Qualified Persons, Replenishment Centre and Distribution.
  • Manages and communicates short supply situations to minimise service issues. Works closely with Customer Services and Replenishment teams to generate the best possible management plan to cover the shortage period.
  • Tracks expiry dating of plant/market inventory and defines actions to avoid obsolete inventory. Estimates the potential for possible obsolescence and coordinates appropriate financial provisions.
  • Coordinates, to maintain supply in regulatory compliance, implementation of critical artwork changes with supplying plants. Plans and coordinates changes in packaging or re‑labelling of existing inventory in coordination with Regulatory Affairs/Artwork Officers, Marketing, Plants, Replenishment Centre and Distribution.
  • Prepares and disseminates weekly stock availability and other management reports (e.g., short, dated stock).
  • Performance measures: data integrity between SAP and edge systems, resolution of stock issues, stock reports, weekly updates, adherence to regulatory artwork compliance.
• 3. Key accountability – Continuous Improvement
  • Monitors performance through the established Global Supply Chain metrics and supports continuous improvement in those metrics and the data collection for those metrics (Forecast Error/Bias, Inventory $/MOH, write‑offs, statistical forecast adherence, etc).
  • Supports business change initiatives as appropriate.
  • Performance measure: monitor KPIs, identify improvement areas, keep SOPs current, maintain relationships across the business.

Candidate Requirements

Skills

• Teamwork: you will be joining an established and experienced team, sharing information and supporting other team members will be key, as will not being afraid to speak up, ask difficult questions and politely challenge the status quo.
• Fast learner: easily learning new concepts and ways of working in unfamiliar environments.
• Self‑starter: able to gain independence with limited guidance.
• Creative: has the ability to come up with novel ideas.
• Digitally literate: comfortable with common digital communication tools/systems and quick to learn how to use new digital tools.
• Good communicator: capable of interacting with stakeholders at different levels of seniority in a clear, concise, and specific manner.

Competencies

• Seizes Accountability – Takes personal responsibility for getting things done and leads others by example. Encourages others when times are tough and is willing to proactively support an idea or position.
• Acts Decisively – Confident to make decisions in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight timelines, using a mixture of analysis and experience.
• Self‑Awareness – Understands the impact of their interpersonal and managerial behaviour and quickly recognises when to use different styles.
• Peer Relationship and Teamwork – Can represent his/her own interests and yet be fair to other groups and quickly find common ground, encouraging collaboration to solve problems with peers. Is seen as a team player and easily gains trust and support of peers.

Training To Be Delivered

• Qualification to be delivered: Level 6 BSc (Hons) Professional Practice in Supply Chain Leadership.
• Apprenticeship Standard: Supply Chain Leadership Professional.
• Training Provider: Supply Chain Academy.
• Delivery model: This apprenticeship will be delivered in a blended mix of online and in‑person learning.

Future Prospects

Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will be eligible to apply for other positions within the business.

Things To Be Considered

The apprentice must be able to demonstrate the required attitudes, behaviours and interpersonal skills associated with the professional workplace. The apprentice must be willing to commit an amount of personal time to study. Please ensure you check out travel options to be able to commute to the workplace.

About Pfizer

You’re the future. Your ambition, talents, ideas and unique way of looking at the world will help us drive innovation in every part of our business.

At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of health‑care products, including innovative medicines and vaccines. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time.

We need people with a hugely diverse range of talents. “Love Science? Want to work on the business side? Get stuck into an apprenticeship to launch your career.”

Pfizer’s apprenticeship scheme, run in partnership with Cogent Skills, offers the best of both worlds. You’ll work with world‑leaders in your field, from researchers to business gurus. You’ll study towards a nationally recognised academic or professional qualification. And all the time, you’ll be earning a highly competitive salary.

Looking for an alternative to college or university, where you can earn while you learn, and build experience with a global leader? Find it at Pfizer.