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Pilgrim's Food Masters Graduate Programme

Successful candidates will join the Pilgrims Food Masters graduate programme, which offers fantastic development opportunities for the right candidates to grow their careers in a fast paced and innovative industry. We are looking for talented, ambitious and forward-thinking employees to join our team and help shape the future of Pilgrims Food Masters.

Click here to learn more about the Pilgrim's Food Masters graduate programme

Location(s): Dublin,Staines and Flexible

Key Responsibilities

  • As a Commercial Graduate, you will rotate roles across the 3 disciplines of Brand Marketing, Category Management and Sales
  • Direct responsibility early in your role for a customer, a category or an element of brand management for one of our leading brands
  • Gather insights on your customer, category or brand and develop a customer plan, a brand plan or category plan based on those insights that drives growth
  • Manage budgets to agreed levels to deliver your plan
  • Support research projects as required
  • Present proposals or insight to customers to help drive mutual growth
  • Manage day to day priorities for customers, brands or category needs

What You’ll Need

  • Business related Degree preferred - 2.1 or above
  • Strong motivation to progress within a commercial organisation
  • Ability to collaborate well within supportive team environment
  • Structured, proactive thinking with communication skills to verbalise clearly & concisely
  • Commercially savvy with good analytical, numeracy and excel skills
  • Self-starter with strong decision-making ability to prioritise & get things done
  • Ability to demonstrate Pilgrim’s Food Masters values of Determination, Ownership, Sincerity, Simplicity, Humility, Availability and Discipline

Why Join Pilgrim’s Food Masters 

Successful applicants will join Pilgrims Food Masters at our offices in Staines or Dublin in a Commercial Graduate position in September 2022. For office-based roles, flexible working to blend the benefits of focussing at home and collaborating together is encouraged.

Backed by a broad onboarding programme and with a strong support network behind you, you will be directly involved in a Commercial Role from when you join. Learning the core of our business is a critical foundational experience and you will get stuck into everything from managing a problem with a customer delivery to developing a new brand marketing campaign.

Our strength comes from our diversity and we believe that everyone deserves a chance to shine. From day 1 your manager will help you craft and work on a development plan designed to help you drive your career forward as well as providing feedback to help you further develop and grow.  Each of our associates has different needs and we believe a personalised approach to learning and development produces the best results.

Our values are at the heart of our business and drive everything we do. Availability is key as we are receptive and open and prepared to take on new challenges. Humility is important to us as we listen and respect each other and value opinions of others. Discipline is vital to fulfil commitment internally and externally. We need to be truthful to each other and respectful of other opinions, so Sincerity drives us. At Pilgrim’s Food Masters we focus on what’s practical and important so through Simplicity, Ownership and Determination brings success.

All these core values culminate into our vision which is: To be the best and most respected company in our industry, creating the opportunity of a better future for our team members.

Benefits & Rewards

All employees at Pilgrim’s Food Masters receive a multitude of great benefits and rewards which include:

  • Pension contribution (4% - 10%)
  • 25 days holiday including Bank Holiday (unless stated otherwise)
  • Life Assurance
  • Discounts and big savings from brands you love, including Apple, ASOS, Tesco and Nike!

Process

  1. Apply online - We would love to hear more about you and why you are interested in working within the food manufacturing industry
  2. Video interview - Your chance to tell us more about yourself and why you're a strong candidate
  3. Successful applicants from the video interview stage will then be invited to attend an assessment centre in May 2022
  4. Successful candidates will then start in September 2022