Commercial Development Placement

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Commercial Development Placement

Here at VWFS we're passionate about developing the best ideas, products and experiences to help our customers every day. The Commercial Development Undergraduate will support the Commercial Development team in ensuring that any of those new ideas, products and experiences are launched and changed through the relevant channels ensuring the right outcomes are delivered for our customers. This role offers access to a huge variety of departments and stakeholders across the business. You are sure to come away from your placement year with a broader and in depth knowledge as to how commercial businesses operate.

You will have the opportunity to define this role yourself, depending on your own passions and skillsets you can bring to the role the team will help support and drive you forward with those. Whether that be a particular passion for reporting and numbers, or creativity and marketing. This unique placement may be hard to describe but it is endless in the experience it will give you for a future in business.

This is what you could be doing:

• Provide support to Marketing/Product activities and projects i.e. market insight, user testing
• Support Commercial Development Managers with product and channel analysis and the ability to make recommendations as a result of that analysis
• Support the Commercial Development team in building and maintaining a set of reusable governance tools and templates
• Responsible for the collation of information from all Product teams for monthly Board reporting, ensuring these are appropriately aligned formatted and presented accordingly.
• Escalate risks and issues via Governance framework, identifying effective solutions and recommendations to support future mitigation.
• Opportunity to lead cross functional Projects to support business objectives
• Utilise your visibility of business performance/market insight to provide commercial support to CDM’s. You will then communicate those outputs to relevant stakeholders
• Building and sharing data driven stories to report business channel and customer insight; supporting CDM and Product Team initiatives
• Support CDM’s with commercial and customer driven benefits realisation for our digital products and channels
• Opportunity to create, manage, and communicate product specific commercial and customer forecasting

About you:

• Studying towards a Business, Marketing, Design or International Business related degree
• A keen interest in Digital, Technology and creative approaches
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal skills, as you will need to interact with co-workers and build strong relationships across internal and external stakeholder groups
• Good problem solving skills to find creative solutions to complex problems
• Strong work ethic and willingness to take ownership for wide-ranging responsibilities
• Creative expertise using multiple tools – mainly MS Office
• Emotionally intelligent, resilient and energetic
• Drive and ability to work under tight timelines
• A willingness to learn and develop new skills

What you’ll get: (apart from a wealth of experience for the future…)

• Earn whilst you learn and receive a competitive salary of £17,500 per annum plus discretionary bonus and access to company pension scheme
• A fun and sociable workplace to start your career. You’ll be joining a cohort of around 50 undergraduates so you’ll have a large group of colleagues so that you can support each other throughout your placement year.
• Participate in Lifeskills workshops, designed specifically for our Undergraduates
• Access to a discounted loan car scheme which means driving 2 brand new vehicles during your placement (a great way to make your mates jealous when you visit them at Uni)
• Chance to make a difference in the local community with various volunteering opportunities
• Onsite wellbeing centre – think lunchtime massages, onsite HIIT classes and health check-ups
• There will be a hybrid blend of working in our office based in Milton Keynes and working from home.

Volkswagen Financial Services is an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from everyone.

About Volkswagen Financial Services

Here at VWFS, we provide finance and insurance services to customers across the entire Volkswagen Group in the United Kingdom. The Group includes some of the world’s most iconic automotive brands, like: Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Volkswagen, Bentley, Lamborghini, Porsche, Bugatti, Ducati, Scania and MAN.

We strongly advise that you do not apply for more than one placement role to ensure that you are considered for the placement that you are more interested in and your skills are aligned to.

How to apply

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Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.