July 2023 - Sales & Supply Planning Student Placement

If you want a student placement where you do loads of photocopying and making people cups of tea, this one really isn’t for you!!

Each year we invite Students to complete their placement year with us in our Eco HQ in Surrey. We nickname these students our ‘Future Talent’ because they often go on to do great things, either here at TGB, on our Graduate scheme or in the wider working world.

We are proud to offer a 12 month placement as part of your undergraduate degree, giving you Industry experience in a global brand (but with family feel) organisation. As part of the emerging talent community, you’ll get access to our 70:20:10 learning and development framework*, you’ll have the support of the student community and roll your sleeves up to get involved in specific projects & fundraising to make a genuine difference.

You might also be a complete petrol head (which is great, but you don’t have to be), love innovation and believe that there’s ‘Always a better way’? If so, read on for more information about our placements and how we make it as easy as possible for you to apply!

About TGB – In a nutshell

You may already follow Toyota or Lexus on social media or in the news and have heard about the great things that we continue to achieve globally, well, what we do here at TGB helps achieve those great things! Here at out ECO HQ in Surrey, we support the car dealership network as the sales and marketing functions for both Toyota and Lexus in the UK. We are a diverse team with a common goal, to do business the way that customers love.

There’s loads of really great stuff on our blog

Sales & Supply Planning Placement Overview

In this role you'll play a pivotal part in business transformation in an agile, fast-changing market. Get involved in key Demand & Supply projects to support One Toyota’s key goals around ZEV ambition and vehicle dwell time reduction

Typically our student placements will include first-hand experience in project management and allow you to take the lead with projects in the team. You should be excited about the opportunity to analyse data, problem solve and propose innovative and efficient solutions to support decision making across the business. There will also be opportunity for you to develop presentations and showcase your communication skills.

We are obsessed with being a customer centric organisation, you will get fantastic opportunities to work directly with our customers (this includes the centre network, TFS, our fleet partners and many more!).

Enabling you to be the best you can be is on the top of list at TGB, so our managers will support you by identifying projects that will provide opportunities for development as well as giving face to face support on a regular basis

You can find more detail about these roles in the Job Profiles at the bottom of the page!

You want in?
To be considered for this role, you’ll need to be:

• You’ll need to be completing a business related undergraduate degree which includes a year in industry.
• Confident in communicating with a wide demographic of customers
• Positive outlook and problem solving mind-set.
• Really team focused and able to build relationships
• Passionate about customers & obsessed with delivering a service the way that customers LOVE!
• Residing in the UK and either living within or willing to relocate to within a commutable distance of our ECO HQ

What you’ll get - Great people deserve great things

Enabling you to be the best you can be is top on the list at TGB, so it’s more than just an externally benchmarked salary and bonus that puts smiles on the faces of people that work here:

• Access to attractive car schemes for you (& your family)
• Eco HQ, free parking & restaurant offering a fantastic working environment
• Generous annual leave which increases with service and holiday trading option.
• Flexible working initiatives*
• 2 volunteering days per year and various Corporate & Social Responsibility initiatives.
• Private medical healthcare, Employee Assistance Program & eye tests
• Exclusive discounts & discount website
• Onsite gym, Sports and Social Club, cycle to work scheme & flu jabs to keep you healthy
• Regular 121s with your manager, a personal development plan reviewed quarterly with a range of training & support (as per the TGB Management Deal)
• Annual events and random acts of kindness throughout the year (e.g, summer party, Green month BBQ)

• We don’t take a cookie cutter approach to working flexibly because this means different things to different people. Its best to talk to us about the flexibility you’d like at the interview and although we can’t promise that we’ll be able to give you exactly what you want, we will definitely promise not to judge you for asking. We love it that lots of our people work flexibly!

Toyota loves diversity -

To innovate, we need diversity of thought so a diverse and inclusive workplace is hugely important to us. We won’t discriminate against any protected characteristics, will judge applications on merit and won’t make any assumptions.

The Process

We want to make sure that we get the best future talent available, so we have designed a screening and recruitment process to help us. All of our processes are mapped to our internal competencies and potential model as well as ensuring a great fit for our innovative and customer focused culture.

Application > One way video interview > Online Assessment centre