2025 Early Careers - Procurement and Supply Chain Graduate

Early Careers 

Whether you join THG as a graduate, intern, or apprentice, you can shape your future. Each role comes with real responsibilities, giving you the unique opportunity to make an impact from day one. We're committed to supporting your personal and professional development, and strongly believe that giving you the freedom to manage your career will help you to thrive at THG. Our Early Careers team will be on hand to support you every step of the way, creating exciting learning opportunities to help you reach your full potential. We'll give you the tools, advice, and support you need to succeed, and empower you to take your career to the next level. 

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Why be a Procurement and Supply Chain Graduate at THG?  

We are recruiting a graduate to undertake a 12-month graduate scheme with three rotations within the Direct & Indirect Procurement Teams and the Supply Chain team. This is an exciting opportunity where you will be managing and negotiating spend for these areas. You will be required to deliver innovation from the supply base, reduce costs where possible and learn how to develop and manage contracts. The successful candidate will have a strong interest in developing a career within Procurement and / or Supply Chain and be able to demonstrate natural commercial awareness.  

As a Procurement Graduate you’ll:  

Indirect Procurement:

• Work on supporting & developing a procurement strategy for a category of spend
• Negotiate and award contracts
• Develop THG’s perffered supplier list / market options
• Manage existing contracts maximising value
• Be able to communicate cross-functionally across our key divsions and supporting functions such as Legal and Finance
• Support best Procurement practice and policies to be embedded throughout the business
• Managing supplier approval process and working with the relevant teams; Finance & Info Sec to faciltate approval process

Nutrition Direct Procurement:

• Work with NPD Team and support with Procurement requirements for NPD projects across Nutrition division
• Communicate with our suppliers regularly to schedule product into our network, considering any capacity/delivery challenges that may put our online or offline trading plans at risk
• Generate production plans for one of THG’s manufacturing sites considering prioritisation of sales streams, raw material allocation & efficiency
• Reporting on KPI’s such as spend, savings, payment terms, availability, intake budgets & production plan attainment

Beauty Direct Procurement:

• Work with NPD Team and support with Procurement requirements for NPD projects across Beauty Division.
• Communicate with our suppliers regularly in development of packaging projects, understanding restrictions and opportunities to deliver high quality products.
• Identifying new suppliers who align with our T&C’s and supplier specification to deliver further benefit to our supply chain.
• Projects to deliver results to meet procurement strategy 

What skills and experience do I need for this role? 

• A graduate looking to start work after Graduation in Summer 2025
• Graduating with a degree in Business, Finance, or a related subject would be an advantage.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Commercial awareness and the capability to make relevant recommendations off the back of commercial summaries and input this into the relevant category strategy
• Strong communication skills
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office to a high standard, particularly Excel
• If you have any Procurement, Supply Chain or Operations experience this would be an advantage

What’s in it for me? 

Career Development 

• Access to bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team. 

• Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider. 

Enhanced Leave 

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. 

• Don’t want to work on your birthday? We don’t either! Enjoy your day off on us! 

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.  

• Up to 10 days compassionate leave. 

• Buy back up to 3 days each year. 

• Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12-months. 

Wellbeing Support 

• Access face-to-face and virtual appointments with our in-house GP. 

• Access our in-house CBT therapist. 

• Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.  

• State-of-the-art on-site gym. 

• Access to our on-site physio. 

Other Perks 

• Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme. 

• Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.  

• Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands. 

• On-site staff shop. 

• Access to on-site barber. 

• Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation. 

• Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service. 

We are an equal opportunities employer. 

We’re committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that allows everyone to thrive, and strongly encourage all candidates from all backgrounds and identities to apply. 

 

Please email talent@thg.com if you require any additional support or need to make any adjustments to our recruitment process. You don’t need to disclose your disability or condition, you just need to let us know what support you need or changes you need to make. If you’re not sure, we can work with you to explore the available options.  

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