AddressSupply Chain Intern
Location: Bournemouth / Hybrid
Internship date: 1st July to 23rd August 2024
Salary: £11.50 per hour
About the Role
We are seeking a commercially minded and analytical intern to join our Supply Chain team on an 8-week summer internship programme.
McCarthy Stone’s internship programme will provide you with an excellent experience where you will gain industry and field-related skills, and experience, while earning a competitive salary. Taking part in our programme will boost your CV and will ensure you have a deep understanding of our business, the industry that we operate in and an insight into our customers.
The Supply Chain team manage a £60m spend across multiple categories. These categories include Catering, Utilities, and a wide range of building maintenance services such as lifts, doors and fire systems. The Supply Chain consists of almost 2700 national and local suppliers. To better manage our Supply Chain, we are looking to reduce the number of suppliers and benefit from economies of scale.
We are looking for a motivated individual to carry out a research project around supplier consolidation and rationalisation. The project will involve researching supplier consolidation strategies as well as talking with potential suppliers to understand their capabilities.
Alongside your role, you will be part of a cohort of interns which will instantly enable you to start building your internal network at McCarthy Stone. There will also be a series of Learning & Development opportunities to get involved in throughout your journey with us including insight and skills sessions and lunch and learns on key business topics.
Please note that this role will require working from our Bournemouth office on a hybrid basis.
About You
Education and Qualifications
- Studying towards a degree in a business-related subject, on target for a minimum of a 2:2 – classification
Personal Attributes
- Interested in a career within Supply Chain or business
- Organised and works well to deadlines.
- Able to multitask and prioritise.
- Communicates clearly, both written and verbally, with confidence to speak with external suppliers
- Shows a good level of attention to detail.
- Works well within a team, but equally on their own.
- Good at building working relationships
- Has a flexible, positive and can-do attitude
- Computer literate and has experience in Microsoft Office software, particularly MS Excel and MS Powerpoint
At McCarthy Stone, we believe that later life is filled with possibilities. We create warm and supportive retirement communities that bring people together to make lives more fulfilling. Everyone at McCarthy Stone is passionate about championing the role, wellbeing, and happiness of older people in society.
We aim to create a better understanding and appreciation of older people by playing our part in helping them to live happy and healthy lives. From senior executive positions to front-line colleagues, we have a shared vision of creating a thriving retirement community, built with innovation and heart, that celebrates later life.
We are delighted to be accredited as a Great Place to Work, and this reflects the evolving culture of excellence and inclusivity in our organisation, and the passion from our teams for what they do.
We recognise the successes, promotions, and achievements of everyone in our business and provide extensive Learning & Development opportunities to support and further you in your career.
McCarthy Stone celebrate diversity and promote equality and inclusion amongst our colleagues. We welcome applications from all, regardless of personal characteristics or background.
As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.
We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.
We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list!
