Industrial Placement – Supply Chain Analyst

Our Industrial Placement Programme within Supply Chain Planning will make you see retail in a new light. Our unique Partnership difference and approach to business will enable you to get the most out of your placement year. Our placements combine hands on experience with real projects. You will also receive relevant on the job training.
Within the Supply Chain Analyst role, you will create accurate and high quality planning and performance insight and modeling from multiple inputs and complex data streams to support choices about how best to utilise our Supply Chain network. As well as decision making across a range of activity and timescales, both within Supply Chain and in Trading and Retail. You will engage with multiple directorates to help understand and articulate the trade-offs and decisions to progress plans effectively and efficiently.

In addition to your contractual pay, any time worked between 22:00 - 06:00 will attract Night Premium at a rate of £3.50 per hour. This will also apply to existing Partners who have enrolled onto Enhanced Hours Premium arrangements.

• Salary: Up to £24,000. Please note from 1st April 2026, the salary range for this role will be £26,500

• Contract type: This position is a Fixed Term contract for an Industrial Placement (typically 12 months).

• Proposed Start Date : July 2026 

• Working pattern/flexible working - The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The team aim for 2-3 days per week in the office with Wednesday being the team's day in the office to connect.

• Location - Bracknell

Key responsibilities

• Working across the supply chain analyst community to diagnose issues and identify opportunities for improvement

• synthesise complex data into well-communicated insight to drive action

• Preparing planning & scenario based models

• Applying operational knowledge of certain areas of Supply Chain operation to the data

• Translating business needs into supply chain implications

• Working with ‘Big Data’ and using complex data mining techniques.

Essential skills/experience you’ll need

• As part of your degree, be able to take a year out in industry commencing July 2026

• You will currently be studying a degree with a significant Mathematical, Science,Analytical or IT/Computing component.

• You will hold a passion for applied data and analytics and a strong interest in Supply Chain, Merchandising or retail operations

• You explain and articulate your thoughts and ideas, both clearly and effectively

Please Note:

• Interviews will take place in March 2026.

• The placement will start July 2026

• We will only accept one application for any of the Partnership Industrial Placement schemes. If you apply for more than one scheme, we will take the first application we receive. You will then receive an email notifying you of the withdrawal of any subsequent applications.

• Please print off the job description now, as you will be unable to view it once the vacancy has closed.

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We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.  

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.   

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect. 

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective. 

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.  

Important points to note:  

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.  

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications, and therefore, we recommend you apply early. If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability which means you may need longer to complete your application please contact us as soon as possible.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview. 

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