Pricing & Operations Industrial Placement

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Pricing & Operations Industrial Placement

3M is seeking a Sales & Marketing Services Industrial Placement Student for their Business Services Team located in Bracknell, Berkshire. Ready to be part of what's next?

Location: Mainly Bracknell based but some travel to Loughborough should be expected

Key Benefits Include:

• 25 days paid annual holiday, plus Bank Holidays.
• Contributory Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance Scheme 4 x salary
• General Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Discount on 3M products
• Reduced subscriptions on various insurance schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme

The role

Learn what life is like within a global corporate company and how it approaches sales and marketing across its 5 business groups. As well as exposure to big name 3M brands such as Post-It and Scotch this role will give you experience of the SAP systems used by many global companies and an appreciation of how a business goes about many of its sales and marketing processes.

This is an opportunity to join a broad service organisation undergoing a period of intense change. The successful candidate will be exposed to a number of areas within the Sales and Marketing Service groups, within Business Services, through a rolling programme of activity.

Teams are:

• Pricing Administration and Analytics
• Business Reporting & Data Analysis
• Financial Administration of Customer Incentive Plans
• Financial Administration of Sales Incentive Plans
• Customer Samples Provision
• Customer Data Administration
• Point of Sale Data Management

Individuals will be assigned on a project basis to work closely with each team to support the high level of activity which will be required by the Business Transformation process. Depending on business needs, capability and preferences, individuals will have the opportunity to move frequently amongst the groups to get the widest exposure and learning experience or remain in a particular role to develop a more in-depth knowledge of an area.

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Effective communication skills
• Good problem solving skills
• IT literate (proficient in Microsoft Office applications including Excel)
• Experience of learning new technologies quickly

Personal Attributes

• Flexible to changing circumstances and environment
• Organised - ability to take ownership of projects and drive results
• Self-starting, pro-active approach
• Team player
• Ability to engage with lots of different people and form relationships quickly
• Ability to translate complexity into key points
• Analytical, logical, data literate

Requirements

• Right to live and work in the UK
• Predicted a minimum 2:1 degree in an IT or business related course
• 120 UCAS points at A-Level or equivalent qualification (300 UCAS points based on previous UCAS points system)
• Valid UK driving license is preferred, but not essential

Training and Development

The successful candidate will join our Sales and Marketing Services team straight away and initially undergo a period of intense training to enable their contribution to the team. They will deal with real business scenarios from day one as this is the best way to quickly build a robust knowledge base. We operate in a highly collaborative environment so placement students can rely on plenty of support from colleagues to help them get started and this will continue throughout their time at 3M.

About 3M

3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products.

Our culture of creative collaboration inspires a never-ending stream of powerful technologies that make life better. 3M is the innovation company that never stops inventing.

With $30 billion in sales, 3M employs 90,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 70 countries. The UK and Ireland is home to one of the largest 3M subsidiaries outside the USA, employing 3,000 people across 17 locations, including 10 manufacturing sites.

Products manufactured in the UK include coated abrasives, personal safety equipment, adhesive tapes, industrial microbiology products, drug delivery systems, high-performance coatings, secure documents, passport readers and imaging systems.

Working at 3M

Unleash your potential.
Our success depends on the energy of our employees and the high quality of their leadership. Most of all it depends on their continuous improvement.

Move forward.
From sales to manufacturing to marketing to engineering, if you're committed to expanding your knowledge and gaining leading-edge skills, this is the place to do it. Professional development at 3M includes excellent training, continuing educational support, mentorship from smart, experienced people and more.

Move up - or move in new directions.
You'll find a strong promote-from-within culture here; it's an important aspect of our emphasis on learning and professional growth. You may also move between business units or even, potentially, to different locations around the world. That's one of the many advantages of our diverse business model and global reach.

How to apply

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