Undergraduate Customs Assistant 
£23,400 plus great benefits (Work Level 6C)
Manchester city centre, in this role you’ll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and coming in the office at least once a week (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy). 

12-month work placement (starting June 2025) 

We’re looking for a driven and ambitious Undergraduate Customs Assistant to join our Supply Chain team in Manchester on a 12-month work placement. As an Undergraduate in our Supply Chain team, you’ll focus on a range of product areas, giving you the chance to learn about how Co-op identifies, develops, launches, and supplies products. You’ll work with our team spending time on key projects, including the movements of goods to Northern Ireland in the Windsor Framework project.  If you’re a great team player with a passion for growing your career, we can offer you an amazing opportunity to do just that with a business that always puts people at the heart of its strategy.

What you’ll do

• Embed into cross category teams engaging with Technical and Commercial teams along with Freight Forwarding, Route to Market and Logistics 
• Get involved with our Co-op networks and working groups across Supply Chain, looking at ways to improve experiences for all colleagues and support communities 
• Work with HMRC reporting to complete investigations and feedback on queries raised
• Be involved in compliance activity in areas such as EU deforestation regulations and other changes to export regulations impacting Northern Ireland 
• Support the Co-op manage regulatory change to make sure our customers in Northern Ireland continue to have choice in our stores 
• Play your part in keeping our product movements compliant 

This role would suit people who 

• Are currently in their second year of studying towards an undergraduate degree
• Have an interest in Supply Chain/Customs 
• Have good communication and relationship building skills 
• Have a solid understanding of Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Excel and PowerPoint)
• Are passionate about developing their career 

Why Co-op?

If you’ve got the skills and passion we’re looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities. 

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job. 

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. 

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate. 

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process. 

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. 

Please be aware we may close the application window for this role early