Job Title: Graduate Commercial Management Trainee

Our client is Europe's leading provider of quality modular building systems. They offer an extensive range of modular and portable buildings ideal for creating everything needed to create a quality working environment including climate control systems, high quality furniture and access systems.

The Commercial Trainee Programme has been designed to develop your knowledge and prepare you for a management position within this company. Roles are available all over the UK.

During the programme trainees will work through three distinct modules covering the key areas of the business:

Commercial Awareness - running a successful hire desk, includes generating enquiries through business development work, carrying out customer visits etc.

Project Coordination - managing and coordinating the installation of units on clients? sites ensuring that statutory regulations, safety and quality procedures are adhered to.

Service Management - managing the skilled and manual labourers in the yard and the refurbishment and fitting out of the units.

Trainees will start their programme in one of these areas and will work with an expert through the module until they are signed off as being competent to carry out a role in this area. They will then work in this area of the business to consolidate the skills that they have learnt, working to objectives that must be met prior to moving on to the next module. The timescales for moving between modules depends on the individual but we would envisage the initial 'learning' stage to last approximately three months and the consolidation stage to last for six months. On the completion of each module the Regional Hire Manager and Departmental Head will carry out an assessment of the standard that the trainee has achieved.

Trainees are also expected to carry out business related project work at Hire Centre, Regional and Divisional levels, which will require research in order to prepare presentations to deliver to their Regional Hire Manager and Senior Hire Division staff members as appropriate.

Through the duration of the training programme the General Manager and the Hire Trainer will carry out formal quarterly reviews.

Candidates will need to have the following:

- Minimum 2.1 degree in any discipline
- A sandwich year work placement (or equivalent) or significant part time, weekend, or holiday work experience in a commercial setting, i.e. retail sales etc

Key qualities required are as follows:

- Persuasive - Likes to influence people, has considerable communication skills and sees this as important
- Independent minded - Has own ideas and isn't afraid to put them forward
- Outgoing - Is lively and animated in groups, talkative, enjoys attention
- Socially confident - Feels comfortable when first meeting people and is at ease in group situations
- Evaluative - With data, people and information
- Adaptable - Is able to change behaviour to suit the situation they are in
- Vigorous - Thrives on activity, likes to be busy and enjoys having a lot to do
- Competitive - Enjoys competitive activities, dislikes losing
- Achieving - Likes to work to demanding goals and targets

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