Sales Internship Slough 2024

Would you like to develop your sales knowledge, harnessing your energy and desire to help grow the LEGO® brand?

The role

The LEGO Group is looking for a sales intern with a focused problem-solving mindset and can-do attitude to come and join our Sales team in a full-time role for 12 months. You will primarily support the Omnichannel team, which covers Grocery, Discounter & Toy Specialist retailers.

You will help facilitate commercial execution on one of the most beloved brands in the world, ultimately supporting our mission to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.

Core responsibilities

• Support the omnichannel sales team on vital retailer procedures that ensure execution of our products and themes in renowned omnichannel retailers in the UK & Ireland.
• Facilitate the retailer preview showcases, organising selling in materials and new products and liaising with marketing presenters to enable smooth delivery.
• Develop knowledge and use of tools and software packages to support account teams with retailer range and secondary space planograms.
• Manage retailer & licensor requests for product samples.
• Support the broader sales team to help enable the day-to-day operations, ensuring a smooth delivery of executions across the full sales team.
• Work with wider sales team to collate & track key data. Interpret and share this analysis with global, regional and local stakeholders.

Your role will be supporting the LEGO sales omnichannel team with key retailer setup processes, ensuring a first right time approach and eliminating friction for our products to end up in the hands of shoppers & consumers. You will also be an enabler for product portfolio presentation to retailers, as well as facilitating effective review of sales performance and strategy.

In return, we will empower you to succeed and develop in a wonderful team committed to bolstering business growth and ultimately to put phenomenal toys into the hands of happy children!

About you

• Working towards a Bachelor’s degree or similar qualification.
• Proven interest in sales, account management and wider retail landscape knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to analyse large data sets and distill insights.
• Impeccable attention to detail.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Tools.
• Business fluent English language.
• Ability to collaborate and work within a team.
• Can do attitude and ability to juggle multiple projects at once.
• Proactivity and confidence to make decisions, manage expectations and meet deadlines.

Please note Salary and benefits for interns will be discussed at interview stage.

What’s in it for you

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.