What will you be doing?
Only by recruiting and retaining the best talent will we achieve our business ambitions in the highly competitive and fast-moving UK automotive industry. You will support our employees to develop and grow to achieve their personal and professional ambitions. Working as the first point of contact for the business, you will be advising our managers on a range of queries and policies to ensure the smooth running of day-to-day operation.
What's in it for you?
As an undergraduate on one of our placements, you'll receive a £21,200 salary, as well as a new car every six months (as long as you have a full, clean UK driving licence). You'll also receive 27 days' holiday – plus bank holidays – a discretionary bonus, an award-winning pension scheme, employee well-being support, an on-site restaurant and shopping discounts.
What do you need?
To be successful in this role you'll need to be a strong team player with the ability to adapt and analyse information to make sound recommendations. You'll be pro-active, positive and delivery focused, with effective communication skills both verbally and in writing.
Our placement is open to any university student who is eligible to work full-time in the UK for twelve months from June/July 2024. You should be on a sandwich degree or course which offers a one-year industrial placement. We have a duty of care to our people and wouldn't want you to spend a large amount of time commuting, so we require our undergraduates to be based within a reasonable radius of our Milton Keynes head office.
What's the assessment process?
Once you have hit the apply button, you will be asked to complete numerical assessment and situational judgement assessments. Upon successful completion of these, we will invite you to complete an online video interview so that we have a chance to get to know you a little more about you.
Our final step in the journey would be for you to attend a face-to-face assessment centre, where you will take part in a range of activities based on real life tasks. You will also have a chance to meet some of our managers and also the existing student placement cohort to find out more about them and the scheme.
This process is designed to help us both work out if a placement here is the right step for you. Successful candidates will be offered a place soon after the assessment centre.
Who are we?
Six different automotive brands. Group Functions. Trade specialists.
Volkswagen Group is one of the most successful automotive manufacturers in the world, with some of the most iconic brands that the industry has ever seen. But we're also a great Sales, Marketing and Digital operation in our own right. Last year over 350,000 cars and vans were registered from the Volkswagen Group UK brands, achieving a passenger car market share of 20.1% and confirming our position as the leading automotive company in the UK.
With a global target to be balance-sheet CO2 neutral by the year 2050, we are leading the automotive transition to zero emission battery electric vehicles. We're focusing on key strategic initiatives to help us become the leading provider of mobility services in the UK, digital sales, the next generation of aftersales and new efficient distribution structures to name a few.
We have a unique culture, built on difference and a friendly rivalry that inspires us all. Across our business, we learn from each other, encourage each other and regularly challenge each other to think differently adding value to our cultural agenda. Our people have a true passion for what they do, a genuine desire to go further for customers and to give their own careers real momentum at the same time.