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 and Performance Summer Placements Programme Offers the opportunity to spend time in the Commercial, Charges and Assurance teams within our Capital and Commercial Services Teams and gain understanding governance structures and commercial performance frameworks.
A day in the life of a placement student at Severn Trent involves complex environmental information and providing strategic insight to drive governance structures, audit and training programmes. You will 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. You’ll spend time supporting with major activities like budget planning and project management.
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.
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 have exposure to some of the following either directly from the placements, or project work:
- Budget Planning
- Data Interrogation and developing commercial insight
- Understand and Implement Governance Structures
- Understanding Charges
- Strategy and transformation
- Project Management
- 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
How will the programme work?
You will be based at Severn Trent Centre in Coventry, the heart of our operating patch. You will be able to complete either an 8 week or 12 week placement depending on your preference as well as what the business area currently has on from a project perspective.
In this exciting programme, you will have the chance to discuss your development and career ambitions in your 1-1 meetings with business leads, mentors, a study the cohort leader, and the New Talent Team.
About the placement
Location: Severn Trent Centre, Coventry, CV1 2LZ
Programme Duration: 8 or 12 weeks
Starting Salary: £22,011 pro rata
Entry Criteria: The degrees that lend you to this programme will include (these are preferred, not essential):
- Business Management
- Finance (Awareness)
- Excel Proficiency (Required)
- Statistical (Awareness/Application)
You must be currently studying at a UK university and be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship
What we're 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.
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 15th January 2025
- Check your diary – face to face assessments will run at the end of January and Early February
- Start Date 2nd June for a 12 week placement and 30th June for an 8 week placement
