Business Degree Apprentice

Basildon, England, United Kingdom

12/5/2024

Job Description

Leonardo offers a range of Apprenticeships from 2-4yrs. across a variety of STEM and business routes, offering paid training, coupled with on the job learning that enables you to gain practical skills, experience and knowledge that sets up the best start to your career.

Whether leaving School or College with GCSEs/Standards, A ‘Levels/Highers (or equivalent) or in work and looking for a new career path, you are fully supported as you rotate within the business working on real-time projects alongside highly skilled professionals who are passionate about their work.

As you would expect from a globally renowned Company, we offer competitive salaries and fully support your academic learning through to qualifications, so there is no need to get into debt. We support helping you settle into your new location ensuring you are familiar with the team and have a warm welcome from day 1. There is a member of our Apprentice team at each site, helping you progress, ensuring your study time is protected, enabling access to digital learning as well as opportunities to get involved with the local community and STEM projects, enhance many aspects of each programme.

Leonardo values people that look to always develop throughout their career and along with an eager willingness to learn, a successful apprenticeship with us involves a drive to deliver results, sometimes from your own initiative, a patience for problem solving, as well as a need to comply with safety instructions and clear process compliance at all times. We view commitment to programme and learning objectives very highly.

Leonardo is an international leader in electronic and information technologies for defence systems, aerospace, data, infrastructures, land security and protection, and sustainable ’smart’ solutions. We are a continually expanding company, offering exciting opportunities to talented individuals who want to work at the forefront of technology. We hope that is you and look forward to you joining the team!

What You Will Do

Leonardo’s four-year Sales and Marketing Business Apprenticeship /Business scheme provides a variety of experiences through placements in business-related disciplines, working on real projects alongside specialists in the world of business. You will rotate around our hiring functions gaining experience of the different teams and work/projects specific to your department in Basildon

This vacancy offers positions in our Sales and Marketing team.

During each placement, you will be working within cutting-edge facilities, learning how the various business areas operate and collaborate together to support Sales and Business Winning, discovering how opportunities are identified, bids are managed and delivered, and having opportunities to liaise with customers and key stakeholders. During your placement you will rotate through several business areas and functions to gain further insight and experience of collaboration across the business in support of Sales and Business Winning, including, Project Management, Finance, Commercial, Procurement, Trade Compliance and Project Planning. There may also be opportunities for travel.

The final position will be in Sales and Marketing.

Key Responsibilities

We need people who not only understand the importance of fulfilling the needs of our Customers and company business objectives, but who are also ready to embrace an ethos of continuous improvement and personal development through committing to a structured 4-year learning programme. At the end of the programme, you will emerge as a highly qualified member of our Sales and Business Winning department, equipped to contribute actively to the success of a variety of world leading projects.

During your apprenticeship, you will study with Anglian Ruskin University to complete a Chartered Manager Business Degree Apprenticeship. You will achieve this qualification through a combination of attendance at the university and day release plus experience in the workplace.

Year 1, 2 and 3

Through a series of rotational placements across a range of internal departments, you will gather real work evidence such as reflective accounts which describe day-to-day tasks you have completed and highlight the key business competencies demonstrated. You will gather this evidence, which demonstrates your development into a well-rounded business person through on-the-job training, gaining the essential practical skills needed to succeed.

Year 4

Following completion of a number of placements, you will enter a final placement in Sales or Business winning focussing on one particular discipline. This targeted learning allows you to build on your skills and knowledge and to develop into a valuable member of the department, and will provide you with the final pieces of evidence required to move into the assessment phase and complete your Apprenticeship.

Salary £21,525

Qualifications Minimum

What we are looking for

• Evidence of at least 80 UCAS Tariff points at Level 3 e.g. A Levels, BTEC (or equivalent)
• A completed Skills Scan and Initial Assessment discussion
• Evidence of Level 2 qualifications in Maths and English e.g., GCSEs at Grade C/4 or above, Functional Skills, or ESFA-approved equivalent
  
  

Mandatory

Please note that in order to apply for this opportunity you must be eligible for UK Security Clearance. Normally this is to the level of Security Check (typically known as “SC”) for our business which includes having a minimum of 5 years permanent residency in the UK.

Leonardo values people who always look to develop throughout their career and along with an eager willingness to learn, a successful apprenticeship with Leonardo involves a drive to deliver results, sometimes from your own initiative, patience and problem solving as well as ensuring safety and process compliance at all times. We also view dependability to the programme and learning objectives very highly.

Primary Location

GB - Basildon

Contract Type

Fixed term

Hybrid Working

Hybrid