Graduate - Commercial Business

**Duration**: Three years

**Location**: London Heathrow

**Salary**: £33,600

**Application Closing Date**:21st November 2024

**Start Date**:September 2025

**The Programme**

Over 3 years, you’ll complete 3 very different and unique roles across our Commercial departments with the aim of developing you to become a commercial expert and leader of the future.

These 12-month placements will challenge and inspire you and give you exposure to every facet of our global commercial business, often with some international travel along the way. Your experience will take you on some amazing journeys within some of these teams:

- Revenue Management: as well as understanding how an airline drives revenue and makes profit, you will be personally owning decisions on how we price our products, decide on their availability and how we exploit and develop ancillary sales for a specific region in the world.
- Sales: you’ll represent BA and work directly with some of our most important customers, understanding their needs and managing the relationship on behalf of British Airways, Iberia and American Airlines.
- Retail & Customer Relationship Management: you will experience how we attract new customers, maximise retention and nurture the relationship with our customers.
- Commercial Strategy: at the heart of Commercial, you will gain experience in defining strategies and goals and working across Commercial to drive our transformation plans forward.
- Distribution & Payments: you will help to deliver smart product distribution strategies and deliver innovative new payment solutions.

Ambitious and data-centric thinking is the norm for our Commercial team and you’ll find many different ways to make your ideas count. We want you to help us outpace and outperform our peers by creating momentum and impacting on the bottom line.

**Development and progression**

We’ll help you to realise your potential and reach your career goals through a structured learning, training and development plan. Throughout the programme, you’ll have a support network of colleagues around you to nurture your development - but you’ll also independently plan and track your own professional development. To enable your leadership growth, we are offering a variety of structured learning courses.

**About you**

**What's in it for you?**

Looking to join our graduate scheme? You won't be disappointed. Recently winning TargetJobs 'Most Popular Graduate Employer in the Transport, Logistics and Supply Chain', ranking #15 in the 'GTI Top 300 Graduate Employers' and #66 in the 'The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers', we can't wait to welcome you into the British Airways family.

We have many benefits for graduates at British Airways, here are a handful to showcase the diversity of our graduate community:

- Part of our graduate network and community, with the opportunity to engage with graduates from all schemes in the business and learn from former graduates
- Involvement in our bold sustainability vision, volunteering an active role to champion specific community groups including LGBTQ+ 'Flying Proud' and ethnic minority network 'BeMe'
- Involvement in Community Investment programmes, taking part in fundraising challenges for partnership charities, supporting causes close to your heart
- Volunteering in schools, colleges and universities, sharing personal experiences to inspire, empower and mentor students and support their potential to gain employment in the industry we love
- Access to heavily discounted flights to globe trot, and a generous annual leave entitlement to turn your bucket list into reality

**Further information & Next Steps**
- If you are successful with the online tests, you will be invited to complete a short video interview within a given timeframe

Do you have any questions or need advice? During the recruitment window, we will be running weekly virtual drop-in centres for applicants to talk to our recruitment team. Come along any Tuesday between 3:30pm and 4:30pm by joining the MS teams link.

At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work.

Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we’re committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they can be themselves. We’re looking for people from all backgrounds and cultures to join us and be a part of our journey to become a Better BA as we continue to connect Britain with the world and the world with Britain.

**Timelines for this recruitment process**
- If your video interview is successful, you will be invited to an Assessment Centre in January 2025

For more information about our Commercial Business graduate scheme click HERE.

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