Business strategy rotational graduate programme

Managing a world-class brand. Defining a five-year strategy. Developing your skills in a challenging commercial role. This programme lets you do any and all of it before choosing the area of our business you want to specialise in.

This graduate programme is now closed for applications for our 2023 intake. To register your interest for September 2024 and onwards, click here and we’ll keep you updated.

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What to
expect

Four different rotations over the space of two years. We’ll help you find the ones that are best for you and your career aspirations. Some could focus on branding or marketing. Others on the strategy or commercial side of our business. All of them will present challenges and opportunities you won’t find anywhere else.

How you’ll
grow

Hit the ground running and get stuck into complex projects right from the start. You’ll have lots of talented and supportive people around you to learn from. And there will be opportunities for you to develop amazing business skills. By the end of the programme, you should be more than ready to move into your first permanent role at Sky.

Where you could be working

Consumer Group

Marketing

Commercial

Propositions

Trading

NOW

Marketing

Working with best in class marketing teams. Owning implementation and delivery of campaigns and activity that fundamentally champion our Sky content and products. Could be owning the creative strategy for a core product (e.g. what do we want Idris to do for this one). Working across digital platforms, on social, print and with influencers.

Commercial

Looking 3-12 months in range. How many subscriptions might we get if we secure X football match? How much money would that make us? How do we make the user journey better? All about growing our products so they’re reaching and appealing to as many people as possible.

Propositions

Longer term, tracking customer habits over time, do they want contracts or no contracts, what does the customer want in the future and how do we get that to the customer? What are our product development strategies and what should we be moving it in the future?

Trading

Heartbeat of the business, how does Sky make money, seeing daily the cogs of the company and how a big corporate works. What’s going well, what’s going badly. What do we need to change and how are we going to change it?

NOW

We’re NOW, one of the UK’s leading streaming platforms. We’re brilliant TV made by brilliant people. Big-thinkers. Changemakers. Showstoppers. Join in.

Non-consumer Group

Sky Labs

Commercial Content Strategy

Group Supply

Product Management

Corporate Affairs

Group Strategy

Channel and Partnerships

GOTT

Sky Labs

We’re a small, committed but highly in-demand, multi-talented team whose purpose is to help realise new value in the people, process and products across every and any aspect of work at Sky and with our partners. We don’t behave like an outside consultancy that will inevitably move on, instead we work alongside our colleagues, bringing clarity and creativity where it’s most needed.

Commercial Content Strategy

The Content Team at Sky UK are responsible for commissioning, acquiring and Planning content across our multiple content & channel brands including Sky Max, Sky Atlantic and Sky Cinema. This team creates and manages the content story for Sky ensuring a continuous and ever evolving offering for Sky Customers, that meets all business KPIs.

Group Supply

Supply Chain deliver over 20 million items a year to our customers, our engineers, our Technology colleagues who manage the infrastructure that supports our products and services, and to our Retail estate. We cover demand forecasting, stock management, warehousing and distribution, through to customer returns, repairs and recycling of engineer and customer waste.

Product Management

We’re the team behind the infamous Sky products line-up. From Sky+, Sky Glass, to Sky Q. From hardware and software to intricate design. Could you help us turn an idea into the next big thing? As a team, we’re collaborative, empowered and innovative – together, we’re proud that everyone’s favourite Sky products are #MadeByUs.

Corporate Affairs

Build up your communications expertise. Teams you could join here include Corporate Comms, Internal Comms and Consumer Engagement.

Group Strategy

Working in strategy gives you the opportunity to get involved in a range of activities. Reporting on competitor activity. Planning negotiations with partner channels. Delivering a programme of strategic significance to Sky. You name it.

Channel and Partnerships

This team manage relationships with all of our channel and content providers as well as all of the great apps you see on the Sky Q platform and beyond.

GOTT

Part of the NOW Global Over-The-Top Product Team, the Growth Squad is responsible for driving revenue and subscriber growth across all of our EU NOW and WOW apps.

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Rewards

We’re committed to providing great rewards to the people who drive our success. Whether it’s taking care of your health, providing for your future, experiencing our great products or the little things that show we care, we aim to make your life better by providing a great range of benefits which fit around your needs.
Our rewards package provides you with:

Experience

Free Sky Q, Broadband and discounted Talk. (One off payment required for installation and equipment for Sky Q).

Choices

Pension plan – you’ll automatically be enrolled into the pension plan after you’ve been with us for three months. There’s also free life assurance (dependants will receive from two to four times your salary depending on your circumstances) and ill health cover.
Healthcare plan – the health of our people is important to us, so we’ll provide you with a competitive healthcare plan.
Savings – you can save on childcare costs, travel season tickets, mobile phones and cheaper shopping through retail vouchers.
Dental insurance – discounted dental insurance for you and your family with a leading UK provider.

Share save scheme – we’ll give you the opportunity to gain from our success, which means you’ll benefit as our share price rises (available for people on a permanent contract).

Discounts

Savings – we’ve arranged special discounts across a wide range of goods and services just for you.
Gym benefits – discounted membership at many high street gyms, saving employees around £200 per annum.

And lots more

Holidays – 25 days’ annual entitlement plus up to five extra days per year, the longer you stay with us. (entitlements may vary depending on location and business area.)
Great support for working parents including generous maternity benefits with 6 months at full pay for those with the required length of service.
A range of recognition schemes providing great prizes for our people who live and breathe our values.
Make a difference – whatever good cause you want to support, we’ll help you with time off, donations or help raising funds.
Flexible working – we have a clear and on-going commitment to a whole range of flexible working options depending on the job you do.

Register

This is the easy part. Simply register your details and provide your academic information. That’s all there is to it.

If you need any adjustments for any stage of the process, make sure to let us know when you register and one of our team will be in touch to discuss.

Digital assessments

As part of the application process you’ll complete our immersive digital assessments. One of these assessments will include a video interview. If you’re applying for any of our finance and software engineering programmes, we’ll also be assessing specific skills. For finance, we’ll ask you to complete a numerical reasoning test. For software engineering, you’ll take part in additional digital assessment where you can show us your coding skills.

Ready to go? Here are some hints and tips to get you started:

Find somewhere quiet where you won’t get distracted
It might help to turn off your phone or keep it on silent
Open a new browser window or close any tabs you aren’t currently using
Have a pen, some paper and calculator to hand
Get camera ready. Make sure you’re in a tidy, well-lit space with good internet connection. And of course, test your audio and webcam to check that they’re working fine. We’ll give you some more instructions to help you get set up
To get you in the swing of things, you’ll get some time to practice recording your answers. Make the most of this so you’re ready for your final take
We know it might feel a little strange but try and treat the video interview like you would any interview. Dress comfortably, smile and keep focussed on the camera
And finally, we’re excited to get to know you. Be yourself. Always provide answers that best represent you and what you would do in a given situation.

Assessment centre

For the final assessment stage, we’ll invite you to our offices. You’ll get the opportunity to impress us in person and get a feel for what it’s really like to work at Sky.

It’s normal to be nervous but we’re on hand to help you along the way. To prepare, do your research about Sky and come ready to demonstrate your skills and passion. Think about what’s motivated you to apply to work here. We’re keen to hear more about you.

The day could include an individual interview, group discussion or individual exercise. We’ll give you plenty of notice and let you know how best to prepare for these activities. And while it may seem obvious, make sure you plan your journey ahead of time.

Once you’ve completed your assessment day, we’ll let you know when you can expect to hear back from us.

Any questions? Email us at earlycareers@Sky.uk

Good luck!

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