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 Toyota, 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 community 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.
Weather you know the exact path you want to take, just want to dip your toe into working life or you’ve not really thought about what happens after uni, we’re able to provide you with experience in a generalist sales and marketing business, we’re inclusive and we’ll give you the tools for you to grow into a well-rounded employable graduate.
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.
Marketing Communications Student – Whistle stop overview
We understand that at this stage of your career, you may not be exactly clear on the path you want to take, that’s why for the roles that have cross over in terms of the experience they give, we allow you to be considered for them all to ensure we deliver the best candidate experience. All of the department role profiles are attached so you can have a look at the detail of each area, but to simplify your application process (hurrah!) we ask you to apply to the Marketing Communications category rather than individual role.
We don’t have a business if we can’t tell our customers how great our products are. Whether we are talking to our customers (the way they love) through direct or digital platforms, we have experts that will give you fantastic exposure to the marketing mix. Our marketing roles offer opportunities for you to analyse our consumer data, ensure our customer and network incentives and offers promote commercial sales, right the way through to launching new products and website developments!
Enabling you to be the best you can be is on the top of list at TGB! 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 want in?
To be considered for this role, you’ll need to be:
- You’ll need to be completing a marketing or business focused undergraduate degree which includes a year in industry.
- Excited by an opportunity to work with digital platforms
- 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 focussed culture.
