About the Company:

JDE is a €5 billion global business with around 15,000 associates based in 28 different countries, selling their brands in over 100 different countries around the world. Formed in 2015, JDE retains a start-up feel containing some of the leading brands in the Coffee and Tea industry including – Kenco, L’OR, Tassimo and Douwe Egberts to name a few. JDE UK is headquartered in Banbury, Oxfordshire, which is one of JDE’s global ‘Power Plants’ responsible for producing 20,000 tonnes of coffee per year across 9 production lines. The UK represents a top 5 global market for JDE and continues to be a growth engine for the category, driving premiumisation by leading the single-serve partition with the Tassimo brand and premiumising the instant coffee segment through Kenco, L’OR and the Douwe Egberts brands. JDE believes amazing things can happen over a cup of coffee and with values including Entrepreneurship, Solidarity, Accountability, Simplicity and Discipline working at JDE offers you an exciting opportunity to make an impact in the world’s largest pure play coffee company. JDE’s goal is simple but ambitious: a coffee for every cup.

About the Role:

Placements in Manufacturing Planning will sit within the Planning and Procurement team who work closely with JDE’s manufacturing and logistics team. Your role will be to ensure the smooth planning of materials in and out of the Banbury manufacturing site as well as production planning to deliver customer requirements. You will be involved in a wide variety of activities from working with commercial teams to ensure the manufacturing operation is planned to deliver the volume of products JDE’s customers require, through to supporting raw material planning (e.g. ensuring they have enough green coffee beans, glass jars, plastic caps etc.) to then deliver those customer requirements.

Requirements:

• For these roles we’re looking for applications from supply chain, logistics, operations management or business degree backgrounds.
• You should have keen attention to detail and be focused on organisation and planning in a prompt and accurate fashion.
• You will need strong numerical skills and be proactive and results orientated.
• You must be an undergraduate looking for a 12-month Year in Industry placement from July 2019 to July 2020.

How to Apply:

For more information and to apply please click here: https://www.sanctuarygraduates.co.uk/jde-planning-19/?ref=DEPT