Junior Commercial Strategy Analyst Placement

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Deadline: 12th January 2018
Salary: £17,500
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Aeronautical & Aerospace Engineering, Data Science, Business Management, Financial Management
Location: South East
City: Fareham, Hampshire

About NATS

Nats is the leading Air Navigation Service Provider in the UK, providing air traffic control services for more than 6000 movements a day in the UK airspace and North Atlantic.

People working at NATS have long and rewarding careers. You can benefit from top of the range training and training facilities and advanced technology, along with a great benefits and an open collaborative working environment. We are also a friendly bunch, You can enjoy a wide variety of sports and social clubs, discounts on events ranging from air shows to theatre, and we encourage our people to network and get together whenever possible. There is even an on-site gym at our larger sites and subsidised canteen.

Junior Commercial Strategy Analyst Placement

The Team

Underpinning our objective to win and retain commercial business, the principal functions of the Commercial Strategy team are to develop strategic and business plans, identify market opportunities and threats and monitor the commercial business progress against short and medium-term objectives.



The Commercial Strategy team is comprised of both a Strategy Development function and a Commercial Planning and Performance function, whose primary responsibilities are to:



  • Create an overarching Commercial Strategy and lead the development of a set of underlying, customer-centric strategies (e.g. market, service/product, stakeholder engagement) 


  • Create and run a commercial performance framework that provides the Commercial Leadership Team with assurance that all aspects of the commercial portfolio are proceeding to plan 


About the role

During your time with us, you will support both the Strategy Development and Commercial Planning and Performance teams through carrying out responsibilities such as:



  • Preparing and providing input to regular market intelligence and business performance reports for senior management


  • Supporting the development of commercial strategy and business plans through trend and data analysis


  • Performing research and providing analysis and insights on our customers and competitors to support business development and bids for major contracts 


  • Reviewing key business databases and documents to help ensure information management is efficient, effective and appropriately controlled


  • Supporting the use and improvement of key business processes and tools to ensure accurate and up to date information is available for analysis

Qualifications and Skills

We look for applicants who are studying for a business, finance or marketing related degree and are competent in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications together with the ability to utilise internet tools for research activities. 


Our ideal candidate will be enthusiastic and creative, combining excellent literacy and numeracy skills with self-confidence, and the ability to both work as part of a team and to communicate effectively at all levels. To succeed you need to be well organised, self-motivated and able to take responsibility for your own workload, including planning and prioritising to meet deadlines.

Although no specific experience is required, please provide details of any work experience you have to date, together with the relevant personal qualities you have developed through extra-curricular activities.

Questions

    Q1. What are your long term career aspirations and how does this placement fit into these? 

    Q2. What do you think a good strategy should contain? 

    Q3. What would you do to help your team to constantly succeed in their work?



Please submit your answers to these questions as part of your cover letter, using examples to support your answers, where possible.

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