Graduates - Commercial Development

Commercial Development Graduate Scheme:

Start Date: September 2018

Structure and Duration: 4 x 6 month rotations over a two year programme

Rotations in locations across the UK

People who work in our business functions are those who, from behind the scenes, enable us to be an innovative and competitive business. You will have the chance to make an immediate impact and be supported by your dedicated, fun and driven ENGIE colleagues.

Scheme Overview

The Commercial Development scheme is designed to help you develop your business career whilst giving you as much flexibility to experience different areas of our business. You will have a structured, three year programme that will span our entire UK business giving you an unrivalled understanding of how to support our Services and Energy Divisions.

You could be making an immediate contribution supporting our next successful £200m tender, providing critical contractual support to our asset and operational teams, or working with our extensive supply chain to ensure we and they remain focussed on our diversity and sustainability commitments. The opportunities on this scheme are vast and you will be working with many previous graduates who are willing and able to support you as they were supported.

During the scheme you may start to specialise in a certain area as together we understand where you want to take your career. You will be supported to become a future Business Development Manager, Assistant Commercial Manager or our next Sustainability Manager. Whatever path you choose, we firmly believe that the experiences you will have had throughout the programme will make you stronger leaders in the future.

You could gain experience over the duration of the programme of:

Business Development
- Full bid lifecycle
- Understanding our strategic markets
- Financial modelling and pricing
- 'Risk identification and mitigation strategies
- Governance and submission management
- Marketing and branding
- Strategy and proposition development
Commercial
- Pre-contract (contract reviews, pricing models, mobilisation)
- Post-contract (claims, variations, contractual advice)
- Benchmarking
- Compliance Auditing
Strategy
- Market Analysis
- Proposition Development
- Business modelling
- Aligning business, financial and strategic objectives
- Public Affairs
- Senior stakeholder management
Corporate Responsibility
- Environmental improvement (water, waste, energy, carbon management)
- Employee engagement
- Diversity and inclusion
- Supply chain
Innovation and Development

Operational Experience

All of our graduates will get one operational placement as we believe it is vital for our commercial and BD managers to have an appreciation of what we deliver to customers.

Professional Development

Where applicable, we will support you in achieving professional accreditation if and when you decide to specialise in a particular area.