2025 Savills Graduate Programme

**Job title**

Graduate Forester

**Start Date**

September 2025

**Job Location**

Chester, Telford, Petworth

**Salary**

£26,000 and £1,000 sign on bonus

**Current Team Information**

The UK Forestry sector continues to see impressive growth due to strong woodland values, high demand for timber and increasing woodland creation targets backed by the need to reduce net carbon emissions. This, combined with the various environmental benefits that woodlands provide, makes the sector a very exciting industry to work and develop a career in.

**About this role**

A Savills forestry graduate will gain wide ranging experience across a multitude of areas including; budgeting, operational planning, contract organisation, supervision and liaison with clients and stakeholders. They will gain technical expertise and develop their consultancy skills and industry knowledge through engagement with a diverse range of clients, involving themselves in a variety of projects, listening and learning from others within the office and networking with other Savills teams and offices.

Click here to hear more from one of our Forestry Graduates.

Click here to hear a bit more about the Forestry team.

**How you’ll make an impact**
- High attention to detail, well organised and a proactive approach
- Strong verbal, numerical and report writing skills
- Ability to empower those around them
- A team player with leadership potential
- Strategic approach to problem solving
- Ability to challenge in a positive way
- Highly motivated
- Ability to Listen to others and Collaborate effectively
- Computer literate

Ahead of anything else, we look for individualism and diversity in our graduate intake - so it's very important at every stage of the selection process that you take the opportunity to show us what you're really like. Be honest and above all, be yourself.

**Training**

The Savills forestry graduate pathway is designed to enhance your knowledge of the sector and to help you get the most from the first-hand experience obtained in your role. The programme will also lead you from Associate to Professional Membership of the Institute of Chartered Foresters. Ongoing on the job training will be provided and supplemented by in-house training courses designed and delivered by the forestry team themselves. Attendance of industry training days and networking events is encouraged and these will be discussed directly with you and your line manager. As a forestry graduate, you will also meet with a mentor at least every 3 months to discuss your personal development.

**Career development**

On completion of the two year forestry graduate training programme you will be invited to join the Next Step Programme. This programme will focus on the next stage of your career at Savills and includes sessions on career development, communication skills and business development as well as a Q&A session with a Savills (UK) board director.

**Benefits**
- Permanent Contract for all graduates, as opposed to a 2 year training contract
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Pension Scheme - Royal London
- Company mobile phone
- Training and APC costs covered
- 25 days annual leave
- Employee discounts - save money using our MyRewards on thousands of discounts and offers
- Pitch your idea to our Board via the Savills Dragons Den (Innovation and growth initiative)
- Sports activities (Hockey, Netball, Skiing, Rugby, Football, Cricket, Badminton & Squash)
- Employee Assistance Programme - A 24 hour service available to all staff and completely confidential
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- ShareSave - Save As You Earn share option scheme

**Assessment for this role**

**Online Application** - CLICK HERE TO APPLY - Applications close on 3rd November 2024

**Assessment Centre** - 5th December in London.

Potential interview with local team following the Assessment Centre

**Savills Culture**
- Savills is committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst our workforce. Our aim is that our teams will be truly representative of all sections of society and each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We attract, recruit and retain the best people in property. Right across the world, and in areas of property as diverse as real estate management and venture capital funding._- Savills is a Disability Confident Committed Employer and is an accredited Living Wage Employer._
- Savills is a signatory of the Race at Work Charter - committing to the equality of opportunity in the workplace for all._