Sales & Analytics Reporting Placement 2027

Volkswagen Group UK; Monkston; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday

On-site restaurant

Pension scheme

Employee well-being support

Shopping discounts

Job summary

Volkswagen Group UK is offering a 12-month placement in Milton Keynes for an undergraduate student. The role focuses on supporting the sales development programmes, improving efficiency, and managing reporting with Excel and Power BI.

You will work in a busy sales chain with cross-team support across operations. The successful candidate will have a sandwich degree with a one-year industrial placement, strong commercial awareness, and good organisational skills.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate placement with full-time work eligibility in the UK for 12 months from June 2027.
• Sandwich degree required with a one-year industrial placement.
• Strong commercial awareness and organisational skills are essential.
• Detail-focused with problem-solving mindset and customer/employee needs awareness.

Responsibilities

• Assist with communication, management and performance of existing sales development programmes.
• Provide cross-team operational support to improve efficiency of sales activity.
• Manage reporting through Excel/Power BI and participate in project management.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Customer focus

Education

Sandwich degree with one-year placement

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

What will you be doing?

• You'll be working in our busy and diverse sales chain, assisting with the communication, management and performance of existing sales development programmes.
• You'll provide cross-team support for a range of operational work to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our sales activity, helping to achieve our volume, growth and customer satisfaction ambitions.
• This role will include operational tasks, managing reporting through Excel/Power BI as well as project management.

What's in it for you?

• As an undergraduate on one of our placements, you'll receive a £23,500 salary.
• 27 days' holiday – plus bank holidays.
• Access to our car schemes.
• Pension scheme.
• Employee well-being support.
• An on-site restaurant.
• Shopping discounts.

What do you need?

• To be successful in this team you'll have strong commercial awareness and organisational skills, as well as a keen awareness of customer and employee needs.
• The roles here suit a detail-focussed individual with a determination to solve problems and raise standards.
• Our placement is open to any university student who is eligible to work full-time in the UK for twelve months from June 2027.
• You should be on a sandwich degree which offers a one-year industrial placement.
• We believe all employees should have a good work/life balance and wouldn't want you to spend a large amount of time commuting, so we require our placement students to be based within a reasonable distance from our Milton Keynes head office.

What's the assessment process?

Once you have hit the apply button, you will be asked to complete numerical assessment and situational judgement assessments. If you successfully complete these, we will invite you to an online video interview so that we have a chance to get to know a little more about you.

Our final step in the journey would be for you to attend a face-to-face assessment centre, where you will take part in a range of activities based on real life tasks. You will also have a chance to meet some of our managers and current placement students to find out more about the scheme.

This process is designed to help us both work out if a placement here is the right step for you. Successful candidates will be offered a place soon after the assessment centre.

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage the application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.