Undergraduate Placement Year 2025 - Product Management Undergraduate - Combustion Solutions

Robert Bosch Group; Worcester; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the heating industry for a placement year in Product Management. This role offers a comprehensive understanding of product strategies and development, with responsibilities ranging from market analysis to product launch. Ideal for undergraduate students with a passion for learning and a desire to impact the future of home heating. Enjoy a supportive culture and various benefits while contributing to sustainable solutions.

Benefits

20 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Access to Perkbox Benefits platform

Discounts on Bosch Group products

Enhanced pension contributions

Bosch Social Club membership

Policy to support growing families

Health & wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Must be an undergraduate student seeking a placement year.
• Strong base knowledge of Microsoft Office Tools.

Responsibilities

• Support Product Managers in market and customer segmentation.
• Conduct competitor pricing benchmarking and analysis.
• Assist in product launch activities.

Skills

Analytical Ability

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Learning and Development

Education

Business Management

Economics

Product Design

Engineering

Marketing

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Undergraduate Placement Year 2025 - Product Management Undergraduate - Combustion Solutions

• Intern
• Legal Entity: Bosch Thermotechnology Ltd.

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 #LikeABosch at Worcester Bosch.

Join us for your placement year in summer 2025! Our internships are designed to give you an insight into what it's like to work for a world-renowned brand with a culture of support and community.

Help us define the future of the UK heating and hot water industry.

We are on a mission to make home comfort green. Our role in Product Management is to ensure the success of our products now and in the future. We must define, steer, and deliver new products that will help the UK decarbonise heating and hot water in both domestic and non-domestic buildings. Our Product Managers are the CEOs of the Product – responsible for defining and executing the company’s product strategies (Price, Product, Place, & Promotion). As part of your internship – you will interface with departments around the business from, Marketing, Logistics, Sales, After Sales, training, Quality and Finance departments. This internship is suited to students with an entrepreneurial flair and a desire to experience a holistic understanding of how to bring a successful product to market.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

During your internship you will support the Product Managers in the following areas:

• Use Case, Market and Customer Segmentation
• Competitor technical & pricing benchmarking
• Customer Needs Identification
• Developing Business Cases

Product Development & Launch

• User experience testing
• Supporting various work packages to launch a product to market
• Maintain our roadmaps with focus on UK net zero target
• Competitor pricing benchmarking and analysis
• Product performance analysis
• Define and execute product promotion, extension and phase out activities

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Please note that to be eligible for this role, you must be an undergraduate student seeking a placement year as part of your degree - if you do not meet these criteria please consider applying for other positions.

Our ideal candidate must have:

Embarked upon a Degree related to one of the following overarching disciplines:
Business Management, Economics, Product Design, Engineering, Marketing

Our ideal candidate should have:

• A natural passion and drive for learning and developing
• A confident manner with strong communication skills
• A strong analytical ability and an open-minded approach towards problem solving
• A strong base knowledge of Microsoft Office Tools, especially Excel and PowerPoint

Right To Work: please ensure you have a valid Right To Work in the UK status for the entirety of the placement year upon submitting an application.

Deadline for Applications: January 17th, 2025

Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time so we encourage candidates to submit their applications as soon as possible.

Expected Start Date: July 21st 2025
Please note that this date is advisory and can be flexible within reason.

Contract Duration: 1 year

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:

• 20 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays
• Access to the Perkbox Benefits platform
• Discounts on products from across the Bosch Group
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Access to Bosch Social Club membership offering you and up to 5 friends and family discounts on excursions and events
• Policy to support growing families
• Health & wellbeing support including: over 200 trained mental health first aid champions, free of charge employee assistance programme