Supply Chain and Operations student opportunities

In our Supply Chain and Operations team, you’ll play a role in helping clients transform their supply chains to deliver cost savings, increase resilience, improve sustainability, and drive value in their organisations all while building your career.
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What is Supply Chain and Operations?

The Supply Chain and Operations team work across a variety of supply chain domains including:

• Supply chain strategy, end-to-end transformation and visibility
• Supply chain planning transformation
• Procurement transformation
• Logistics and fulfilment transformation
• Manufacturing transformation
• Enterprise asset management
• Intelligent operations

We work with clients across all industries (except Financial Services) ranging from small and local businesses to large multi-national conglomerates.

At our core we are an issues-based consulting team; meaning we assess EY clients’ problems, identify potential solutions that will solve the problem, and then work with EY clients to deliver those solutions to improve operational and financial results. In many instances our clients’ problems are large and complex and require transformational solutions to overcome.

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What could you be doing?

  • Get to know EY clients, their businesses and how they work
  • Work on a variety of EY clients across all major industries (except Financial Services)
  • Work collaboratively with the team to help increase clients’ supply chain and operational performance and results
  • Liaise with clients to understand their issues, obtain relevant information, analyse data, and collaboratively develop and deliver solutions
  • Attend meetings and present insights and findings to clients
  • Leverage the EY network and collective knowledge base to support delivery
  • Support internal team activities and meetings

What will you bring to the team?

  • Problem solving skills and adaptability
  • Critical thinking and a data-led approach to solving problems
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • The ability to synthesise large amounts of information into a cohesive and succinct story
  • Collaborate effectively in a team environment
  • Resilience and curiousity
  • Pro-activeness and initiative to drive and improve project outcomes
  • A basic understanding of current supply chain or operations issues

Your career journey in Supply Chain and Operations

As a graduate, you’ll be part of our 12-month graduate development program that has been developed for graduates in all service lines, and is focused on connection, learning and celebration.

The program will provide you with the opportunity to network with your peers from other service lines and geographies. Running in parallel to your technical learning, you will develop leadership skills to become a successful graduate, and as you grow as a transformative leader.

As a Supply Chain and Operations graduate, you’ll take part in:-

  • A week-long core consulting training course to learn tools and techniques to support client project work while networking with your peers
  • Online learning opportunities including specific supply chain and operations modules as part of the graduate learning map
  • Attend regular “lunch and learn” sessions on hot topics

As a vacationer, after our company induction, you’ll start developing an understanding of how our Supply Chain and Operations teams work and will be ready to work alongside teams on real client projects. You’ll meet other new vacationers from your office.

Your buddy and your counsellor will help you learn your way around the organisation, set your goals and plan your development while you’re here. You'll be well looked after with ongoing learning throughout the Vacationer Program with sessions facilitated by our Learning and Development team, Campus Recruitment team and service line specific training. The Vacationer Program is a great way to gain valuable audit experience, skills and networks to start building your career.

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