Overview
Position Title: SOURCING STUDENT
Company: Gymshark
Location: Portsmouth, UK
Job Description:
We are looking for an undergraduate to join our Sourcing function for an exciting 13-month placement starting in July 2022. This placement year will allow personal growth and understanding of Gymshark’s sustainable supply chain.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in the onboarding and exiting of vendors
- Learn how to keep administrative and information systems up to date, creating reports and collating data from multiple sources
- Assist with planning for travel, meetings, workshops/training sessions and other events run by the team
- Contributing ideas and feedback to support continuous development of the team
- Support on the maintenance of the new vendors sample library
- Assist with research and learn how to maintain reports on external influence that could affect Sourcing regions and interrupt Gymshark’s global Supply Chain
- Support the sourcing team in ensuring on time delivery of the global sourcing strategy.
- Build and maintain close relationships within our global regional sourcing offices and other product teams such as Sustainability, Materials, Product Development, Product Management
- Support the sourcing team in investigating new potential vendors and sourcing regions
- Learn and develop an understanding the commercial impact of sourcing decisions made within the critical path
- Develop confidence in decision making
Requirements:
- Confident working with high volumes of data
- Strong attention to detail
- An experienced and highly competent user of Microsoft Excel, able to use advanced formulas, lookups, and pivot tables for reporting
- Someone eager to commence a career in sourcing
- Able to cope with the pressures of working within a fast-paced environment
- A great communicator who is comfortable liaising with various departments and colleagues
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to work independently and in team environment
- Ability to plan and manage time effectively
About Gymshark
Gymshark is one of the fastest growing and most recognisable fitness apparel and accessories brands, supported by over 5 million highly engaged social media followers and customers in 100’s of countries.