Business Solutions Industrial Placement Scheme

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Business Solutions Industrial Placement Scheme

WHAT TO EXPECT
Grab the opportunity to gain on-the-job experience and a strong start to your future career with our Business Solutions Industrial Placement Scheme.

• As a Business Solutions Industrial Placement student you will work within our Consulting, Project Management and Business Analysis teams, based within our Head Office in Basingstoke.
• The Business Solutions department is a team of innovative and strategic experts who work with current or potential customers to transform their supply chains, using cutting-edge technology and solutions. The result for our customers includes reducing costs, improving the efficiency of their operations, which often leads to better environmental performance.
• Your role will be to support the wider team with data analysis, for example analysing customer driver patterns, delivery windows or order peaks. The type of work you would be involved in would vary from project to project, but would mainly focus on extracting and collating data to support the design process of part or all of the suggested supply chain solution.

WHAT YOU NEED

Are you looking for a placement as part of your four or five year sandwich-degree course? If you’re a driven and engaging penultimate-year university student and fit the following criteria, you’re perfect for this scheme:

• The job is not 9-5 and won’t be repetitive – you will be out and about, getting involved and really making an impact on the way we do things to constantly improve our performance.
• You are on track to achieving a 2:1 (a maths-related discipline is preferable but not essential)
• You thrive in fast paced and challenging environments, which will see you succeed when pushed out of your comfort zone
• You are a credible, engaging and a driven natural leader who is able to take a team on a journey with a shared goal
• You proactively look to transform, adapt and improve things around you. You want to exceed expectations
• Change isn’t a scary word for you. You thrive on new challenges, new people and pick things up quickly and effectively
• People are your focus and you roll your sleeves up when a team needs to come together
• You hold a full UK driving license by the start date of the scheme

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Throughout your time with Gist you will receive training and development in order to set you up for success. The programmes are designed to equip you with the knowledge, best practice, skills and techniques to develop your capabilities. This will be delivered in conjunction with your regular progress meetings to ensure you are working towards a career plan that meets your needs and aspirations.

• You will receive a salary of £19,000
• If you have a successful year with us, you will have the opportunity to join us on one of our Graduate Schemes
• You will be allocated a mentor who will be a senior manager in our business and will offer support and guidance on your career within Gist
• We know that moving can be worrying and stressful– we give you time to find the right place and pay for up to two weeks in a hotel near your new site
• Whether it’s personal or professional, the Employee Assistance Helpline offers counselling, financial and legal advice as well as an online health portal
• 25 days holiday
• Discretionary performance-related bonus scheme
• Pension scheme
• Healthcare
• My Benefits – offering great discounts across retail and leisure outlets

ABOUT GIST

At Gist, we pride ourselves in transforming supply chains, with a proven track record spanning 50 years. Our vision is to deliver industry leading logistics and supply chain transformation for the benefit of our customers and shareholders. Our customers include Starbucks, Marks and Spencer, Tesco and 2 Sisters Food Group. With people and safety at the heart of everything we do, we are; progressive, accountable, collaborative and ethical.

We are always focused on developing our people to enable them to reach their full potential and our Early Careers Schemes are designed to create our future business leaders. If you have the drive, aspiration and flexibility required, we can offer excellent development opportunities to ensure you build a successful and rewarding career with Gist.

“The Gist Graduate and Industrial Placement schemes are designed for high calibre, ambitious individuals who are serious about rapid career development. The schemes enable people to experience working for a wide range of our customers, whilst developing their business and people management skills within a structured development scheme.”
Michael Chambers, CEO.

READY TO APPLY?

We are keen to ensure our selection process gives you a clear insight into our business, and most importantly offers you a good understanding of what life is like on the Industrial Placement Scheme at Gist.

1. Press the apply button and complete our online application form
2. If successful you will then complete a 20 minute video interview where we will get to know you, understand why you’re interested in Gist and hear about why you’d be a great fit for us
3. Following a successful video interview, we will invite you to one of our virtual insight days where you will get the opportunity to learn more about Gist, meet our people and complete some interactive assessments
4. If we think you show potential, you will be invited to our final stage assessment centre at one of our depots. Throughout this day, you’ll show us why you should be on one of our schemes
Please be aware that in order to be successful you need to be available for one of the virtual insight days (taking place in November, January and February) and one of our assessment centres on-site (taking place in November, February and March) and be able to start the role in September 2022.

Deadline for applications: Monday 14th February 2022

Gist is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage a diverse workforce and aim to provide a selection process that allows candidates to demonstrate their full potential. If you require a particular adjustment to be made to allow you to fully participate in our recruitment process, please contact our Graduate Recruitment team at graduates@gistworld.com

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