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    4. Commercial Planning Space & Assortment Industrial Placement 2022
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    Our Industrial Placement Programme with Waitrose & Partners will make you see retail in a new light. Our unique Partnership difference and approach to business will enable you to get the most out of your placement year. Our placements combine hands-on experience with real projects. You will also receive relevant on the job training.
     
    Within the Commercial Planning and Space & Assortment team, you will gain exposure to a variety of critical commercial functions across the Space & Assortment, and Commercial Planning departments. Including bringing your own insight and ideas for current and future commercial projects and seasonal events, analytical reporting and the delivery of first class communication ensuring that queries, change processes, projects and requests are all actioned efficiently and effectively.

    This is an opportunity to influence projects and seasonal events in store and online at Waitrose & Partners; working in and exposure to a broad range of areas such as Marketing, supply chain, product development and own brand. Previously, our placement students have worked on projects such as Brexit, and the high fat & salt legislation.

    The role

    • Delivery of Commercial projects, applying your academic studies into solving complex business problems. Presenting key findings to senior leaders and stakeholders.
    • Develop an understanding of the processes required for the routine running of the Space and Commercial Planning departments within the Commercial directorate and the relationships with other key directorates
    • Gaining a technical knowledge and supporting key projects within the Commercial Planning and Space teams
    • Supporting the Commercial Planner with the trade planning process across Commercial
    • Supporting the Secondary Space Performance and Planning Manager with key seasonal and promotional events
    • Helping to develop business processes, frameworks and tools within your area, continuously improving them to drive efficiency and effectiveness

    About you 

    To be eligible for this role, you must be studying an undergraduate degree at university. As part of your degree, you will be taking a year out in industry commencing July 2022.

    You will currently be studying a degree in business or other numerate subjects e.g. economics, maths, statistics, sciences, geography.

    Applications 

    • Interviews will take place at the beginning of November.

    • The placement will start on Monday 18th July 2022.
    • We will only accept one application for any of the Partnership Industrial Placement schemes. If you apply for more than one scheme, we will take the first application we receive. You will then receive an email notifying you of the withdrawal of any subsequent applications.
    • Please print off the job outline now, as you will be unable to view it once the vacancy has closed.
    • We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early ​

    The application form consists of a CV upload, an online test followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. 

    As a business we encourage flexible working. We have a number of different ways to work flexibly, so at your interview feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you. There are no guarantees, however, examples of how our Partners already work flexibly include part-time, job share, home working and compressed hours.