Undergraduate Placement Year 2025 - Product Management Undergraduate - Combustion Solutions

Bosch Group; Worcester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Product Management Intern, where you'll help shape the future of home heating and hot water solutions. This internship offers a unique opportunity to work closely with various departments, gaining hands-on experience in product strategy, development, and portfolio management. You'll collaborate with passionate professionals to drive innovation and sustainability in the industry. If you have a flair for entrepreneurship and a desire to make a meaningful impact, this role is perfect for you. Embrace the chance to learn, grow, and contribute to a greener future in a supportive environment.

Benefits

20 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Access to Perkbox Benefits platform

Discounts on Bosch Group products

Enhanced pension contributions

Volunteering days

Health & wellbeing support

Access to Bosch Social Club membership

Qualifications

• Undergraduate student seeking a placement year.
• Strong analytical ability and open-minded approach.

Responsibilities

• Support Product Managers in strategy development and product launch.
• Conduct market and customer segmentation analysis.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Entrepreneurial Flair

Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)

Education

Business Management Degree

Economics Degree

Product Design Degree

Engineering Degree

Marketing Degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

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 givingour 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.

Job Description

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:

Product Strategy Development

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

Product Development & Launch

• User experience testing
• Product requirements engineering
• Supporting various work packages to launch a product to market

Product Portfolio Management

• 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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Qualifications

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
• Entrepreneurial Flair
• 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.

Additional Information

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
• Volunteering days
• Policy to support growing families
• 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
• And more!