Supply Management Intern Review

Analyse and evaluate products and suppliers to determine the most cost-efficient options, focusing on maximising savings while maintaining quality and value – use benchmarking and tendering.
BirchStreet - eProcurement & purchasing system:Manage new product uploads from suppliers. Create seasonal order guides for our managed estates stand-alone Taste Republic, OXBO etc.
Pull valuable data – Annual/Monthly purchase volumes of products (Used to calculate savings for benchmarks)
Manage external communications to hotels
Create and distribute a bi-weekly newsletter to hotels detailing supplier information such as price changes & discontinued products etc.
Create and distribute various other stand-alone communications throughout the week upon Category Management’s request.
Manage customer contacts on salesforce – new addictions/removals.

Yes I was responsible for a variety of different tasks and projects throughout my placement

Better Software skills: become comfortable using Excel and valuable formulas (e.g. Xlookup, Pivot Tables)
Learnt how to effectively communicate internally and externally in a corporate environment and work collaboratively in a team and with customers
Time Management & Prioritisation

There was always support and guidance available when needed however as the placement progressed and I got more confident the support was less needed

Very friendly and supportive

I thoroughly enjoyed my placement

Yes