Haven Procurement Internship

About the Internship

An internship program is a structured, temporary work experience offered to current students, recent graduates, or individuals looking to gain practical experience in a specific field. It serves as a bridge between academic education and the professional world, allowing participants to apply what they've learned in real-world settings.

This role will rotate across the Procurement team during the 12 months placement to allow the intern to gain experience across the procurement buying life cycle.

The intern will need to work cross functionally across various Haven teams to support the delivery of the agreed supplier and category strategies to ensure we maximize commercial value where relevant, whilst driving service, safety & security, innovation and guest/ team experience.

The intern will support the team managing the supplier systems used to onboard new suppliers, manage key catalogues and also support the supplier management of some key accounts. They will identify opportunities to rationalise and consolidate the supply base to drive efficiencies for the brand. This may require running small tenders, benchmarking exercises or direct supplier negotiations.

In the final rotation of the placement, the intern will move to one of the category managed areas to support with running a supplier tender end to end process.

Essential skills

• This role needs to have the ability to work with the key relationships above and to influence across a range of levels up to Head of Department as well as director/ board level stakeholders.
  
• This role will be working with a varied range of stakeholders to deliver and embed procurement best practice within the brand.
  
• This role will need to work closely with the other Procurement team members but also be able to work independently.
  
• Problem solving skills.
  
• High commercial acumen.
  
• Understand operational impact of change on guest and team.
  
• High attention to detail, highly organised and great time management skills. Be able to juggle multiple projects at any one time.
  
• Will require strategic thinking along with tactical decision making.
  
• The role requires the individual to support stakeholders to manage their P&L effectively.
  
• Successfully completed 1 or ideally 2 years of a degree which ideally involves a business-related degree ideally.
  
• No direct reports but responsible for influencing team at all levels with the brand. Needs to have the interpersonal skills and
• judgement to be able to adapt approach.
  
• Has good personal time management.
  
• Has the desire and capability to learn.
  
• Demonstrates a high level of attention to detail.
  
• Displays an enthusiastic can-do attitude.
  
• Is curious and willing to ask questions – willing to challenge the status quo and be creative in approach.
  
• Demonstrates a high level of commercial acumen.