Foreign Trade Operations Graduate

Worcester Bosch; Worcester; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Enhanced pension contributions

Perkbox and benefits platforms

Job summary

Worcester Bosch invites applications for a Foreign Trade Operations Apprentice to join our GS/OSD4-EMEA2 team. You’ll support customs compliance, handle trade queries via the ESM system, and collaborate with brokers to improve processing while embracing a digital transition.

The role is a 2-year fixed-term contract with 39 hours per week, based in the UK. Ideal candidates provide a keen interest in geopolitics, data analysis, and developing IT skills within a leading heating brand.

Qualifications

• Self-motivated with a collaborative mindset.
• Interest in developing IT skills including coding.
• Strong attention to detail to drive quality improvements.
• Structured approach to managing tasks and time.
• Able to communicate effectively with all levels of the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with UK and IE legislation and the Bosch Customs directive.
• Act as first-level support for stakeholder queries using the Foreign Trade ticketing system (ESM).
• Assist in managing declarations via external customs brokers to drive improvements.
• Support digitalisation efforts and adapt to changing regulatory requirements.

Skills

Self-motivation

IT skills

Attention to detail

Task management

Communication

Job description

Company Description

We’re the nation’s favourite heating brand, here to warm up people’s homes, lives, and futures.

From boilers, hybrids and heat pumps to solar thermal and smart controls, we’re giving our customers plenty of choice. With cutting-edge tech and research, we’re right in the thick of the drive for a better future of home heating.

It’s not all tools and tech. People are the real heart of our company. We connect with our customers to deliver genuinely helpful support, and we care about our employees and give them enriching careers. We work hard, we work together, and we work with a cause - delivering brilliant customer support and exceptional engineering.

As an organisation of more than 1,600 employees, we also take our role in the communities we serve seriously. From giving away free heating systems for community spaces, to our charity, education, and volunteer work - we’re no strangers to rolling our sleeves up, getting stuck in, and helping out.

If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, we’d love to meet you.

Come and work at Worcester Bosch.

Job Description

We are excited to offer you the opportunity to join our Foreign Trade Operations Department team as a Foreign Trade Operations Apprentice!

Our department (GS/OSD4-EMEA2) takes responsibility for all aspects of foreign trade (customs) for multiple Bosch companies around the UK & IE. We drive development of foreign trade competencies within the organisation whilst ensuring compliance, delivering operational excellence and driving cost savings for the various businesses.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Ensuring compliance with relevant UK and IE legislation as well as the Bosch Central Directive "Customs", you will act as first level support for stakeholder queries utilising the Foreign Trade ticketing system (ESM). By using external customs brokers for the majority of the import/export declarations, you will assist in their management with the target to drive their operational improvements.

The organisation needs to constantly adapt to the ever-changing regulatory requirements, whilst embracing digitalisation with this role expected to be integral in this digital change.

Qualifications

Right To Work: please ensure you have valid Right To Work in the UK status for the duration of the contract term. This is a 2-year fixed term role.

Our ideal candidate must have

• Self-motivated attitude and committed to team engagement / working.
• A desire to develop their IT skills including coding.
• A strong attention to detail to drive quality improvements.
• A structured approach to Managing Tasks.
• The desire to work with and effectively communicate to all levels of the organisation.

Our ideal candidate should have

• A keen interest in government policy, geopolitics and economics.
• An understanding of Supply Chain Management ideally having experience of working in logistics.
• A strong desire for personal development.
• A good understanding of data analysis, decision making and problem solving.

Additional Information

Expected Start Date: 1st October 2026

Please note that this date is advisory and can be flexible within reason.

Contract Duration: 2 years

Working Hours: 39 hours per week - standard working pattern of 08:00-17:00 Monday to Thursday and 08:00-16:00 Friday with a 1-hour lunchbreak.

Working with us comes with the following benefits:

• 25 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays (pro-rata for your first year)
• Eligibility for our Company Performance Bonus
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Access to the Perkbox and My Benefits platforms giving access to discounts, group income protection and death in service benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme and Virtual GP
• Discounts on products from across the Bosch Group
• Subsidised onsite café and canteen
• Health & wellbeing support including: over 200 trained mental health first aid champions, free of charge employee assistance programme.
• Access to Bosch Social Club membership offering you and up to 5 friends and family discounts on excursions and events
• Volunteering days
• Policy to support growing families
• Access to self-service training platform containing over 200 Bosch approved programmes
• Networking opportunities across Bosch UK including a mentoring programme
• And more!

We welcome applications from a range of candidates but please note that to apply for this position you must have the right to live and work in the UK from the start date of employment and for the duration of your employment.