Commercial Internship

Wood are looking to bring a Commercial Summer Placement into the business who will be provided with an in depth, meaningful experience within a busy Commercial team.

The Commercial functions vision is; realising returns, managing risk, maximising opportunities.

The role of summer placement will give an insight into the opportunity available as a commercial graduate within Wood.

Typical roles will include awareness and engagement under supervision:

- Pre-award awareness - including support to the tender governance process, and proposals team in terms of performing a commercial review of tender documents, reviewing commercial proposals prior to submission for internal approval, preparing commercial qualifications and pricing notes
- Main contract administration awareness, including correspondence management, management of change and the development/implementation of commercial strategies and profit improvement plans in accordance with client contract(s) and Wood’s policies and procedures
- Engagement and support to ongoing initiatives and projects within the EMEA Commercial function - DSO, Cash collection and Margin Protection are a couple of examples
- Undertake a specific project to Co-ordinate and benchmark KPI usage across the BG and our associated achievement

Qualifications:

- Higher level education
- Working towards degree in Business or QS

Knowledge, skills and experience:

- Level of understanding around commercial / finance areas of business
- Good planning and organisational skills
- Effective/competent MS Office Suite User
- High level of communication skills in both written and spoken format

Personal attributes:

- Interested in a career in Commercial / Finance
- Commitment to continuous improvement
- Strong communication and networking skills
- Trustworthy and approachable
- Highly developed influencing and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team, with a proactive approach to problem solving.

**Diversity Statement**

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.