Supply Chain Manager Review

My role involves managing our Suppliers performance against the contract we have in place with them. The work is really varied and rarely the same day to day. Due to all the different commodities, you get to learn different areas which is really interesting.

This role was completely new to me when I moved into it. I'd worked alongside the Supply Chain team in a previous role, but never undertaken Supplier Management which is why I started the apprenticeship. I've been able to learn the theory behind the practice, understand why we do things, and think differently. There's so much to procurement and the skills are really transferrable.

Really enjoyed the actual qualification. The apprenticeship at times felt like duplication from the qualification and lots of 'red tape'. Overall though, it's been invaluable.

Good!

An abundance, RSA really supports it's staff members to further their own development and my studies have always been supported by direct leaders.

Really good. The trainers have a huge amount of real life experiences to help you cement your learning.

Very much so, I'm a better Supply Chain Manager for completing my qualification. I naturally think more broadly and certain pieces of work have included a layer that I wouldn't have perhaps understood as much before completing the training.

Yes

Really supportive company to work for!

Go for it, there's a huge amount of opportunity within RSA. I'd have never known this was the job i'd wanted to do before working for RSA!