Commercial, Performance and Regulatory Graduate Programme

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

11/25/2024

LET’S CUT STRAIGHT TO IT

Taking care of ‘one of life’s essentials’ – it’s our purpose and we want you to be part of it.

Supplying wholesome drinking water, treating wastewater and recycling this back to the environment responsibly is no mean feat. We serve around 8 million people across the Midlands and Wales and unlike other businesses, our delivery is non-negotiable. It’s a matter of life.

Many of our employees are also our customers, so we truly take pride in what we do! Employing people from across our communities and beyond, Severn Trent is an exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be curious, can be ‘Wonderfully You’ and where you can truly make an impact to our environment, now and for future generations.

LET’S TELL YOU MORE

Our Commercial, Performance and Regulatory Graduate Programme Offers the opportunity to spend time in the Commercial, Charges and Assurance teams within Developer Services Central function understanding governance structures and commercial performance frameworks.

A day in the life of a Developer Services Graduate at Severn Trent involves a complex environmental information and providing strategic insight to drive governance structures, audit and training programmes. Develop data interrogation skills and the ability to assess risk to provide actionable insights at an operational and strategic level to drive performance and efficiency and act as project manager on such initiatives.

In addition to daily tasks there are plenty of opportunities to expand your network through social events and engagement activities across the department, this is vital for successful collaboration with cross-functional teams within technology.

You’ll spend time supporting with major activities like budget planning and project management.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

You will expand your knowledge of Data Interrogation and developing commercial insight. You’ll also gain a strong business and commercial acumen, developing your ability to understand charges and how to Understand and Implement Governance Structures.

You will learn the following either directly from placements, through supplementary training or project work:

• Budget Planning
• Data Interrogation and developing commercial insight
• Understand and Implement Governance Structures
• Understanding Charges
• Strategy and transformation
• Project Management
• Demonstrate an understanding of the Developer Services and the regulatory requirements that influence business decisions. Demonstrate an ability to apply this understanding and knowledge to influence business decisions
• Collate and interrogate a variety of data including compliance, overall performance and financial data to provide timely insights on the monthly and yearly performance and highlight any patterns and trends and use tailored data visualisations to communicate with key stakeholders
• Build partnership with stakeholders to offer and deliver recommendations and acting as a project manager to deliver solutions
• Ability to build strong relationships across a variety of stakeholders and use data to influence decision making and deliver solutions.
• Ability to interpret complex environmental information and provide strategic insight. Use this understanding to develop and implement governance structures which support the changing environment
• Understanding Charges
• Strategy and transformation
  
  

TYPICAL OFF-SCHEME ROLE

This scheme will develop you into a capable Data Analyst, Commercial Analyst or Standards and Assurance Specialist.

Our New Talent Team will guide you and support you every step of the way. Furthermore, your line manager, mentor and buddy will be there to help you in making sure you reach your full potential here at Severn Trent.

Location: Location: Severn Trent Centre, Coventry, CV1 2LZ

Programme Duration: 27 months

Salary: £29,056

Entry Criteria: The degrees that lend themselves to this programme will include (these are preferred, not essential):

• Business Management
• Finance (Awareness)
• Excel Proficiency (Required)
• Statistical (Awareness/Application)
  
  

Typical contracts are 37 hours per week, however there may be flexibility around the structure of your working hours, team and line manager dependent.

WHAT WE'ER LOOKING FOR

We want our employees to care and to have a genuine passion for what we do as a business. We need people who want to make a difference in providing a vital service to our customers, now and for the long-term.

We’d love you to be someone with…

• A ‘can do’ attitude – willing to get stuck in, take accountability for decisions and actions and who takes pride in their work
• A love of variety in a role and ability to adapt to a dynamic, fast-paced working environment
• Ability to quickly prioritise tasks and the initiative to dive head-first into problem solving. No two days are the same on the front line and not every day goes to plan, so you’ll need to be quick on your feet to respond!
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and enjoy working with multiple teams
• Ability to analyse and interpret information and effectively communicate this to different team members and audiences
• Ability to travel freely across our patch to visit different sites and travel to meetings and training days
• Curiosity to learn quickly in a reactive and dynamic working environment
  
  

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

At Severn Trent we are passionate about our people. We want to make sure that we continue to foster a more diverse, inclusive, and cohesive culture that represents the communities and customers we serve. We’re making sure we keep up the progress with our wonderful working groups – LGBTQ+, Women in Operations & STEM, Disability and Ethnicity, who help us with our commitments. Find out more about our commitments to Diversity and Inclusion at Severn Trent.

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HOW WE’LL REWARD AND CARE FOR YOU IN RETURN

It’s not just a job you’ll get here, you’ll get a career too. We have a range of benefits that reward and recognise great work and award-winning training to ensure you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the community in which we live.

Here Are Some Of Our Favourites

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
• Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,225 which is subject to eligibility)
• Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
• Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
• Dedicated training and development with our Academy
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
• Family friendly policies
• Two paid volunteering days per year
  
  

As if that isn’t enough, you’ll receive an annual salary increase whilst you’re on programme and you’ll also get an increase when you move into your first job.

LET’S GO

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

• Roles close on 31st January 2025.
• Check your diary – face to face assessments will run from 17th February- 14th March 2025.
• Estimated start date- September 2025
  
  

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