About the role
Salary: You’ll be offered a starting salary of £31,000 per annum, rising in your second year.
Location: Crewe/Doncaster
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, on site
Drive business success and build your commercial acumen with us!
About the Role
As a Commercial Graduate, you will complete 18 months within the commercial business area. This is a high-growth development role designed to build your foundational skills in data flow, client documentation, and business growth. Initially, you will provide vital analytical and operational support to our Commercial team. Over time, you will specialise in either Business Development (growth and acquisition) or Customer Success (retention and partnership).
Within the role you will also gain exposure to key commercial functions, including:
- Sales & Business Development – Identifying new opportunities and building client relationships.
- Customer Success – attending face to face meetings with customers, building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- You will build a sophisticated understanding of contract management and commercial strategy.
Throughout the programme, you will collaborate with senior leaders, work on strategic projects, and develop a deep understanding of commercial operations.
As part of your role as a Commercial Graduate, you will:
- Support the Business Development or Customer Engagement teams with essential operational framework and market insights that allows the commercial team to thrive.
- Work collaboratively with the team to achieve team targets.
- Ensuring data accuracy and providing actionable insights for senior stakeholders.
- Supporting the delivery of collective growth objectives through diligent preparation and coordination.
- Conducting targeted research to identify market trends and customer opportunities.
About You
To thrive in this role, you will need:
- Any degree (2:2 or above). A business, finance or social science related subject with a focus on communication would be advantageous but not essential.
- A full UK driving license.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the potential to grow as a leader.
- The ability to adapt and thrive in a dynamic environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport, trust and credibility at all levels.
- Strong data analysis skills and the ability to undertake research and market intelligence to support the commercial proposition for a customer.
- Previous experience in a customer facing or commercial role, along with familiarity with CRM systems such as HubSpot and Salesforce is desirable but not essential as full training will be provided.
Why Unipart?
Unipart stands at the forefront of innovation, celebrated for our environmental and safety achievements. As a global leader with over 30 UK sites and a presence in major markets worldwide, we're a trusted partner in supply chain solutions and performance improvement technologies.
From our strong heritage in the automotive industry, Unipart has grown into a global company working with world-leading brands to make their supply chains more efficient, resilient and sustainable across our seven core sectors of:
- Automotive
- Rail & Public Transport
- Healthcare
- Aerospace & Defence
- Technology
- E-Commerce, Consumer & Retail
- Industrials
Unipart isn't just a workplace. We offer "The Unipart Way," a unique approach that empowers our team to achieve excellence through our comprehensive 'Gate to Great' training and development program. At Unipart, your growth is part of our blueprint for success.
We really care about our employees and in addition to your competitive base salary and pension, offer a range of flexible benefits including:
- Life assurance
- 22 days rising holiday, plus bank holidays
- Wellbeing support and an employee assistance programme
- A varied and challenging development programme with dedicated coaching, mentoring and support
Ready to start your career with Unipart?
Apply now and drive efficiency in the dynamic world of logistics operations!
Successful candidates who progress through the initial shortlisting phase will be invited to participate in an assessment centre. These assessment centres will be held during March/April. Specific dates and times will be communicated to shortlisted candidates along with further details regarding the assessment centre process.
Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the role earlier than stated should sufficient applications be received, on that basis we recommend that you do not delay applying.
Please ensure that you only apply for one role, you will have the opportunity to express interest for other roles later on in the application process.
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales.
As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.