Business Graduate Programme Reading 2023

Start your career with Three.

At Three we’ve been shaking things up since 2003 and we’re still boldly going where no network has gone before. We put our core network in the cloud, we’re building the UK’s fastest 5G and we’re always looking for new ways to innovate with cool and cutting-edge technology. It’s all about giving better connectivity, every day, for every customer. It’s why we exist.

We love fresh thinking and new ideas here. Our 2 year Graduate Scheme let’s you shine and get creative, tackling real-life business challenges with your grad community, while supporting you to learn and grow as you develop your skills and knowledge through rotations in the area of our business that excites you most. You’ll even get international exposure to our sister company in Ireland and meet our CEO, Robert, who leads both businesses.

Excited yet? There’s more! Our grads join us on a 2 year Fixed Term Contract starting in September 2023 and:

• Earn a competitive salary plus benefits
• Are rewarded for great performance with a potential annual 5% bonus
• Get more paid holidays than you can shake a stick at: 28 days + 8 public holidays + 3 personal days. You can buy more (hey jetsetter) or sell up to 5 days back to us for cash.
• Choose from a new phone or handset allowance with a paid unlimited plan
• Enjoy flexibility with our hybrid virtual/office working approach. Work from home for part of the week, then come together with your peers to collaborate in our amazing brand-new office in Green Park, Reading.

Job Context

Three Business is a newly created unit within Three UK, providing mobile solutions to the UK’s business market, all 6 million of them from sole traders right up to large corporates.

In the 2 years since our inception, we’ve overachieved even our own ambitious expectations, and things will only get more exciting. We’re looking for someone who is as hungry as us, shares our ambition and loves to work at pace. The rewards – be part of a winning team that set-up, entered, and made a big impact in the market.

In this programme you’ll become immersed in one or more of these teams – we’ll help you figure out which team suits you best.

Propositions & Marketing

We’re all about the customer and all things market focussed. Everything from building a strong, credible brand that businesses will love, compelling campaigns to bring new customers in and keep them engaged. We also create the brilliant propositions that really help UK businesses to achieve their outcomes, in a way that beats our competition.

Commercial, Trading & Channels

We’re focussed on Pricing into the market and the return on investment of our customers. The team ensure commercial rigour to achieve B2B’s volume and value objectives, accurate planning and forecasting and performance insight to manage dynamic changes in the market.

We manage the go to market into the channels making sure that the Sales Teams can execute the plans we create with them. We manage the 3rd party commercial relationships with both our resellers and suppliers

Sales

This team wins, keeps and grows our B2B customer base. We sell to the entire business market across every segment and sales channel. From acquiring small business customers through our telesales, digital and retail stores, to account-managing large multi-national corporates out in the field.

You will experience each of our sales channels in turn, giving you end-to-end sales insight, and through our Business Sales Academy you'll receive the skills, knowledge and behaviours that can set you on a highly successful sales career path.

Sales Enablement, Digital and Business Operations

In short, in this function you’ll be responsible for ensuring we are brilliant to do business with. Our face to face and online sales channels uses the latest innovative solutions, and you’ll be defining, building and delivering them.

It’s critical that our customers receive an outstanding experience every time they interact with us, whether they want to do that digitally or over the phone, and we have teams responsible for both our digital platforms and our customer service strategy. We lead and manage large internal and customer projects and own vital sales and customer operations.

Responsibilities

• You’ll be supported in each of your rotations to gain hands on knowledge and experience of the team and overall function
• You’ll have lots of opportunities to put your skills and learning into practice supporting key activities
• As a Three Graduate you’ll regularly get together with the wider graduate community for development and problem-solving real-life business challenges

In Three Business you'll have ownership, decisions to make and real accountability, right from the start. We want your insights and ideas, and we'll give you the support to deliver them into tangible outcomes.

Experience

We’re looking for people with passion, energy and a get-stuck-in attitude. You’ll be proactive with a curious mindset, always looking to learn and improve – and teach us a thing or two with your fresh thinking.

Three is a dynamic and fast-paced place to work, so being able to balance lots of different – and sometimes shifting – priorities is a skill you’ll have nailed.

You’ll be working collaboratively with other teams and partners, allowing your confidence building relationships and fantastic communication skills to really shine. This is a fairly new and growing team, within an established organisation, with a start-up mentality, great vision and ambitions. We’re looking for entrepreneurial spirits that will fit in here.

This programme may lend itself best to those with or on track to gain a Business, Marketing, Maths, Economics, or Digital related degree, but we’ll consider all applications. Open to anyone graduating this year, or who has graduated within the last two years. We don’t ask for a minimum degree class.

2 year programme starting in September 2023, based in our new Reading office at Green Park. The successful candidate must have permission to work in the UK by the start of their employment.

We’re accepting applications until 28th November 2022. Once you apply you’ll be asked to complete some online assessments.