Supply Chain Rotational Development Program, New College Grad- Bachelor's (Gloucester, MA)

Program Overview

Through the 30-month Supply Chain Undergraduate Rotational Development Program, you will rotate through positions in Purchasing, Sourcing, and Commodity Management over the course of 18 months, then apply your learnings to a final placement role for an additional 12 months. In the program, participants develop and refine the technical and business skills required to be successful in the Supply Chain organization. You will experience a blended learning environment which includes mentorship, job shadowing, and expanded networking opportunities with leaders and within our Employee Resource Groups such as the Young Professionals Network (YPN). Participants will have the opportunity to gain high level visibility and create significant impact within a global manufacturing organization.

Position Details

During a series of rotations, participants will take on full-time responsibility of their functional role, which includes:

• Issuing RFQs, analyzing proposals, negotiating prices, executing orders, and ensuring delivery in support of volume manufacturing requirements.
• Developing strategies to procure components at the lowest cost consistent with consideration of quality, reliability of source, and urgency of need.
• Assisting with development, alignment, and implementation of commodity strategies across Applied Business Units.
• Driving resolution to systematic supply chain issues affecting quality, cost, delivery or lead-time.
• Assisting in developing and presenting high-level cost reduction opportunities.
• Presenting sourcing, cost, lead time reduction, capacity initiatives to key stakeholders.
• Forecasting and communicating engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers.
• Providing critical input to outsourcing decisions by performing Make vs. Buy analysis.

• Graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Distribution, Industrial Engineering, Management Information Systems, Business Analytics or related field
• Good academic standing with a preferred GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale
• Proficiency in developing effective executive reports and presentations
• Proficiency in Microsoft office tools
• Excellent listening, writing, quantitative, qualitative and oral communication skills
• Ability to handle multiple assignments concurrently
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact cross-organizationally
• Ability to problem-solve creatively and analytically
• Commitment to quality and customer satisfaction
• Detail-oriented; ability to multi-task; deadline-oriented
• Flexible and adaptable mindset
• Thrive in a results-driven culture
• Nice to have technical skills: Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, R, SAS, SQL, Python
• Commitment to completing the 30-month program before pursuing other roles within Applied