General Information

Req #
100015453
Career area:
Sales
Country/Region:
United Kingdom
State:
Hampshire
City:
Farnborough
Date:
Friday, September 20, 2024
Additional Locations: 
* United Kingdom

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Description and Requirements



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We are dedicated to fostering an environment that encourages entrepreneurship and ownership - a workplace where your talents can be challenged, and your efforts recognised and rewarded.

We are looking for a number of students to learn a professional role within our industry, we take pride in having successful individuals in our technical business with a wide offering of skills and attributes, we are also keen to develop and retain the successful students for the future. 

Position Description:
  • Maintaining the execution/ business plans based on the BPT (Business Planning Tool) inputs from the retail account teams for all categories.
  • Maintaining the week on week changes in BPT and keeping a roadmap of changes.
  • Become the BPT expert within the consumer team.
  • Supporting the 4P team in managing the promotions calendar with the retailers
  • Ensuring promos are executed go live in timely fashion within the retailers
  • Building co-data reports and sharing insights/ reports that can be shared with the sales teams ahead of the consumer sales report
  • Identifying trends in weekly/monthly GFK/IDC data and heat map data.

This role will be an excellent opportunity to learn about category management within the consumer electronics sector. You will be working very closely with the Lenovo category managers across the consumer products. This includes Windows PC (Notebook/ Desktop), Gaming, Chromebooks, Visuals, Android Tablets and Accessories. Working in the category team will give you an almost 360 view of the business, you will be working alongside many of the other parts of the business including sales, marketing, supply chain, operations and finance.

The successful candidate will join a high performing team, and whilst the role is the junior position within the team, you will gain great experience of how the Lenovo Consumer business operates and pick up a good understanding of what other departments in the business do. It will be a busy full on schedule, and your role will be contributing significantly to the success of this business unit but will give you an excellent start and exposure to your career. 

Important Attributes:
  • Good time management and organisational skills
  • Good networking and relationship building
  • Display positive attitude, assertive and determined
  • Creative and adaptable, keen to learn and develop
  • Confident with numbers and Microsoft excel
  • Hunger to use data to make decisions

Minimum Requirements:
  • On course to achieve at least a 2:1 degree classification
  • Be undertaking a placement as part of your degree
  • Previous paid/unpaid work experience 



What We Offer:

  • An open and stimulating environment within one of the most forward thinking IT companies
  • Flat structures and fast decision-making processes
  • A modern and flexible way of working to combine personal and professional life
  • An international team with a high focus on Diversity & Inclusion
  • Attractive compensation package


We are looking forward to discussing this position with you soon!


***These are student roles  for 12 months; based in Farnborough, Hampshire.

***Deadline for applications: 30th November 2024.

***Start date: summer 2025.


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