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Change Delivery
Want to deliver huge projects that change the game? Dive into exciting projects. Help get top quality products and services in front of our customers.
Working with our Customer Operations, Product, Marketing and IT teams, you’ll learn how Change Delivery supports our strategic goals, and how we help get things done.
Change Delivery graduate programme - Livingston - Closed
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.
Change Delivery is the driving force behind Sky. We are the team that takes an idea, such as a new product or proposition, and helps it become a reality. We work with practically every area of the business to bring our technology and content to millions of customers.
On this two-year graduate programme, you have the option of choosing between one of two paths: business analysis or project management, both of which will lead to a professional qualification in your chosen area.
You can expect to be working on high-profile projects at pace, leading to great exposure and a huge sense of achievement when we deliver for the business and our customers. Recent projects include the launch of Sky Glass as well as Apple TV and Disney+ on Sky Q. If you want to work on a diverse and interesting portfolio of projects, for which Sky is famous for, then Change Delivery is the place to be. After two years, you’ll join the team as a fully trained Business Analyst or Project Manager.
What you’ll be doing
Business Analyst
As a Graduate Business Analyst, you’ll focus on finding innovative solutions, designing an ideal customer experience, and working with stakeholders from across the business to define and manage business requirements for change.
You’ll learn how to:
- Provide business analysis support across the whole life cycle of projects
- Create and define customer journeys through the facilitation of workshops and stakeholder meetings to support business and operational readiness
- Document end to end business requirements from inception to solution delivery, requirements prioritisation and sign off
- Create and manage the analysis approach and plan that defines the activities and timings to support successful project delivery.
Project Management
As a Graduate Project Manager, you’ll successfully deliver change by leading and delivering through the project team, making sure everything runs to schedule, to the agreed budget and to the commercial and business objectives.
You’ll learn how to:
- Manage projects within a programme across the whole delivery lifecycle
- Own and manage project documents
- Develop governance that enables effective project communication and business decision making
- Ensure projects deliver on time, to scope and budget and with a focus on the customer and business impact.
Grad story
Meet Ash, our Graduate Business Analyst about her experience on this programme in her own words.
Programme facts
- This programme is based in Livingston, Scotland
- Programme duration is 2 years, rolling off into a permanent position
- Expected start is September 2023.
What we’re looking for
The one essential requirement is that you have an undergraduate degree (or are about to complete one). Our programme is designed to give you all the knowledge and experience you need. So it doesn’t matter what your degree is in. We’re much more interested in the passion, drive and talent you’re able to bring to the team.
You’ll be a natural collaborator. You will love bringing people together and working with them to find all the pieces of the puzzle and delivering a solution that works for everyone. You’ll be bringing some amazing products to the market, so you’ll need to have a passion for delivering excellence for our customers.
You’ll be comfortable building and managing relationships with stakeholders at all levels and can communicate with confidence. Working with so many people across the business, this is a perfect role to build your personal brand. Overall, you will have a drive and ambition to believe in better – for yourself, your team, the business and our customers.
Change Delivery graduate programme – Osterley - closed
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.
Change Delivery is the driving force behind Sky. We are the team that takes an idea, such as a new product or proposition, and helps it become a reality. We work with practically every area of the business to bring our technology and content to millions of customers.
On this two-year programme, you have the option of choosing between one of two paths: business analysis or project management, both of which will lead to a professional qualification in your chosen area.
You can expect to be working on high-profile projects at pace, leading to great exposure and a huge sense of achievement when we deliver for the business and our customers. Recent projects include the launch of Sky Glass as well as Apple TV and Disney+ on Sky Q. If you want to work on a diverse and interesting portfolio of projects, for which Sky is famous for, then Change Delivery is the place to be. After two years, you’ll join the team as a fully trained Business Analyst or Project Manager.
What you’ll be doing
Business Analyst
As a Graduate Business Analyst, you’ll focus on finding innovative solutions, designing an ideal customer experience, and working with stakeholders from across the business to define and manage business requirements for change.
You’ll learn how to:
- Provide business analysis support across the whole life cycle of projects
- Create and define customer journeys through the facilitation of workshops and stakeholder meetings to support business and operational readiness
- Document end to end business requirements from inception to solution delivery, requirements prioritisation and sign off
- Create and manage the analysis approach and plan that defines the activities and timings to support successful project delivery.
Project Management
As a Graduate Project Manager, you’ll successfully deliver change by leading and delivering through the project team, making sure everything runs to schedule, to the agreed budget and to the commercial and business objectives.
You’ll learn how to:
- Manage projects within a programme across the whole delivery lifecycle
- Own and manage project documents
- Develop governance that enables effective project communication and business decision making
- Ensure projects deliver on time, to scope and budget and with a focus on the customer and business impact.
Programme facts
- This programme is based in Osterley, west London
- Programme duration is 2 years, rolling off into a permanent position
- Expected start is September 2023.
What we’re looking for
The one essential requirement is that you have an undergraduate degree (or are about to complete one). Our programme is designed to give you all the knowledge and experience you need. So it doesn’t matter what your degree is in. We’re much more interested in the passion, drive and talent you’re able to bring to the team.
You’ll be a natural collaborator. You will love bringing people together and working with them to find all the pieces of the puzzle and delivering a solution that works for everyone. You’ll be bringing some amazing products to the market, so you’ll need to have a passion for delivering excellence for our customers.
You’ll be comfortable building and managing relationships with stakeholders at all levels and can communicate with confidence. Working with so many people across the business, this is a perfect role to build your personal brand. Overall, you will have a drive and ambition to believe in better – for yourself, your team, the business and our customers.
Find out more
Meet Cieran, our Graduate Project Manager talking about his experience in his own words.
Cyber Security
Be part of innovative projects and keep Sky safe from cyber security threats. Educate staff on security threats and vulnerabilities. Get involved in supporting and guiding projects. Join our Group Security Office and help us continue to deliver products free from threat exposure.
Cyber Security graduate programme – Osterley - closed
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.
Keep Sky safe from cyber-attack. Educate staff on security threat and vulnerability. Advise on new security threats. Get involved in supporting and guiding projects. All so we can continue to deliver products free from threat exposure.
As part of our Group Technology Security team, you’ll gain experience working across multiple lifecycle stages of Cyber Security here at Sky. You’ll then get the opportunity to take on a more focused role, whether that’s simulating an attack on our computers or designing system architecture. There’s only one place you’ll see action like this in your career – and that’s Sky.
What you’ll be doing
Take part in a five-week induction before getting under the skin of our cyber security operation. You’ll cover analysis, project management and specialist cyber security training. Throughout the two-year programme, you’ll do up to four rotations, before specialising, with roles ranging from penetration testing to security project management.
Expected learnings during this programme:
- An understanding of threat intelligence and the common threats facing industry
- Common incidents that can occur and how they are responded to
- Business support and security program/project management
- Security design and architecture
- Information security operations
- Assurance, penetration testing and code review.
Programme facts
- This programme is based in Osterley, west London
- Programme duration is 24 months, rolling off into a permanent position
- Expected start is August 2023.
What we’re looking for
The one essential requirement is that you’re a graduate, or soon will be. It doesn’t matter what your degree is in. We’re much more interested in your passion for technology and cyber security and the drive and ambition you can bring to the team.
Other skills we’re looking for include:
- An understanding of threats that face organisations and how they can be prevented
- A quick learner and a team player.
Data Science
Use advance techniques to make predictions about the future. Develop tools and processes to analyse data. Automate your own machine learning algorithms. As a Sky Graduate you could be building data visualisation tools and reports. And working with different departments to process raw data, helping make more informed business decisions.
Data Science graduate programme – Osterley - closed
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.
Data Science is at the heart of decision making and customer treatments in Sky. We provide analytics to inform customer growth strategies, create tooling to drive personalised customer treatments and champion test and learn through experimentation
On our Data Science programme, you’ll have exposure across the business as you work with our stakeholders to help drive decision making using the power of data and insights. You’ll learn advanced analytical techniques and use cutting edge predictive algorithms to deliver valuable insight to the business. You could be helping to build our next data product, predicting future customer behaviour, or unlocking the value of our content.
And the best thing is you don’t have to specialise too soon. Instead, you get to experience everything that makes data science special at Sky before deciding on the area that’s right for you.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll join our fast-track programme for those knowing they want to work in Data Science. You’ll do two six-month rotations within Sky Data:
- Advanced Analytics
- Commercial Analytics
This gives you the opportunity to work across two teams, giving you broad exposure.
Advanced Analytics are a team full of data scientists that use customer level, big / deep data sets from Sky.
Commercial Analytics & Experimentation are the owners of Commercial Analytics data products at Sky. They provide recommendations through Data Science and work in close partnership with stakeholders.
Programme facts
- This programme is based in Osterley, west London
- Programme duration is 1 year, rolling off into a permanent position
- Expected start is September 2023.
What we’re looking for
You’re a graduate from any degree discipline, or soon will be. You’re likely to have studied maths, statistics, computer science, economics, physics or be able to demonstrate your understanding of the use of data through personal or university projects. We’re interested in your passion for data and the drive and ambition you can bring to the team.
Other skills you may have include:
- Logical, end to end thinker
- An enthusiastic problem-solver, with numerical, presentation and IT skills
- Previous experience in data manipulation using Python, SQL, R, SAS, Matlab
- Machine learning – academic experience on Supervised/unsupervised learning, regression, decision trees, random forests, boosting
- Enjoy task-focused delivery, a fast-paced environment and overcoming challenges
- Collaborative, great with people and keen on following recent trends in the market.
Finance
Number crunching your thing? Our Finance team is at the core of everything we do. Produce financial and operational reports. Complete financial analyses for product launches. Help with making investment decisions. This programme will give our graduates hands-on experience of becoming a Management Accountant in a fast-paced, exciting business.
Finance graduate programme – Livingston – August 2023 - closed
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.
Do you want to be part of a finance team that influences key business decisions and be right at the heart of all the action? Dive right into exciting projects and learn on the job while studying for your CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) qualification.
Find out first-hand what it’s like to be a finance professional for a leading entertainment brand. Finance Delivery influences key business decisions working in an international cross-territory team to support all areas of our business and external stakeholders. Report on our financial results as we track performance, analysing variance-to-budget to better understand our business. Engage with suppliers and customers to keep the financial business cycles turning. Help us to deliver our continuous improvement strategy, bringing “Believe in Better” to our every day.
And enjoy a collaborative, caring culture that helps us achieve brilliant things – with diversity and inclusion networks, paid volunteering days and a supportive graduate community. There’s only one place you’ll see action like this in your career – and that’s Sky.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll go on three, year-long placements, spanning the entire business. From content and channels, to product development and technology, sales, and strategy. Plus, you’ll be financially supported to study for your CIMA qualification while gaining relevant experience – meaning that you’ll be able to join the world’s largest and leading professional body of Management Accountants.
Through your business rotations, you’ll learn how to set budgets and track against them, develop business cases to support projects and investment decisions, analyse data to provide key insight, and collaborate with teams across the business to meet and exceed our business targets.
You’ll have our full support to study for your CIMA qualification – with fully funded study and exam days and graduate committee guidance. At Sky your team will support you to make sure your exams can be your number one priority.”
Programme facts
- These roles are based in Livingston, Scotland
- Programme duration is 3 years, rolling off into a permanent position
- Expected start is August 2023.
What we’re looking for
The one essential requirement is that you have or will be graduating soon. It doesn’t matter what your degree is in. We’re much more interested in your passion for numbers and the drive and ambition you can bring to the team.
Other skills we’re looking for include:
- A problem-solver
- Collaborative and great with people
- A self-starter, eager to drive change in an exciting and dynamic environment.
Finance graduate programme – Osterley – February 2023 - closed
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.
Do you want to be part of a finance team that influences key business decisions and be right at the heart of all the action? Dive right into exciting projects and learn on the job while studying for your CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) qualification.
Find out first-hand what it’s like to be a finance professional for a leading entertainment brand. Commercial Finance influences key business decisions. Support new product launches. Advise on whether we should invest in a new TV show or a game-changing piece of technology. Manage company-wide budgets and gain experience in our Corporate Finance team. And enjoy a collaborative, caring culture that helps us achieve brilliant things – with diversity and inclusion networks, paid volunteering days and a supportive graduate community. There’s only one place you’ll see action like this in your career – and that’s Sky.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll go on three, year-long placements, spanning the entire business. From content and channels, to product development and technology, sales, and strategy. Plus, you’ll be financially supported to study for your CIMA qualification while gaining relevant experience – meaning that you’ll be able to join the world’s largest and leading professional body of Management Accountants.
Through your business rotations, you’ll learn how to set budgets and track against them, develop business cases to support projects and investment decisions, analyse data to provide key insight, and collaborate with teams across the business to meet and exceed our business targets.
You’ll have our full support to study for your CIMA qualification – with fully funded study and exam days and graduate committee guidance. At Sky your team will support you to make sure your exams can be your number one priority.”
Programme facts
- These roles are based in Osterley, west London
- Programme duration is 3 years, rolling off into a permanent position
- Expected start is February 2023.
What we’re looking for
The one essential requirement is that you have or will be graduating soon. It doesn’t matter what your degree is in. We’re much more interested in your passion for numbers and the drive and ambition you can bring to the team.
Other skills we’re looking for include:
- A problem-solver
- Collaborative and great with people
- A self-starter, eager to drive change in an exciting and dynamic environment.
Finance graduate programme - Osterley - August 2023 - closed
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.
Do you want to be part of a finance team that influences key business decisions and be right at the heart of all the action? Dive right into exciting projects and learn on the job while studying for your CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) qualification.
Find out first-hand what it’s like to be a finance professional for a leading entertainment brand. Commercial Finance influences key business decisions. Support new product launches. Advise on whether we should invest in a new TV show or a game-changing piece of technology. Manage company-wide budgets and gain experience in our Corporate Finance team. And enjoy a collaborative, caring culture that helps us achieve brilliant things – with diversity and inclusion networks, paid volunteering days and a supportive graduate community. There’s only one place you’ll see action like this in your career – and that’s Sky.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll go on three, year-long placements, spanning the entire business. From content and channels, to product development and technology, sales, and strategy. Plus, you’ll be financially supported to study for your CIMA qualification while gaining relevant experience – meaning that you’ll be able to join the world’s largest and leading professional body of Management Accountants.
Through your business rotations, you’ll learn how to set budgets and track against them, develop business cases to support projects and investment decisions, analyse data to provide key insight, and collaborate with teams across the business to meet and exceed our business targets.
You’ll have our full support to study for your CIMA qualification – with fully funded study and exam days and graduate committee guidance. At Sky your team will support you to make sure your exams can be your number one priority.”
Programme facts
- These roles are based in Osterley, west London
- Programme duration is 3 years, rolling off into a permanent position
- Expected start is August 2023.
What we’re looking for
The one essential requirement is that you have or will be graduating soon. It doesn’t matter what your degree is in. We’re much more interested in your passion for numbers and the drive and ambition you can bring to the team.
Other skills we’re looking for include:
- A problem-solver
- Collaborative and great with people
- A self-starter, eager to drive change in an exciting and dynamic environment.
Finance graduate programme - Osterley - February 2024 - closed
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.
Do you want to be part of a finance team that influences key business decisions and be right at the heart of all the action? Dive right into exciting projects and learn on the job while studying for your CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) qualification.
Find out first-hand what it’s like to be a finance professional for a leading entertainment brand. Commercial Finance influences key business decisions. Support new product launches. Advise on whether we should invest in a new TV show or a game-changing piece of technology. Manage company-wide budgets and gain experience in our Corporate Finance team. And enjoy a collaborative, caring culture that helps us achieve brilliant things – with diversity and inclusion networks, paid volunteering days and a supportive graduate community. There’s only one place you’ll see action like this in your career – and that’s Sky.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll go on three, year-long placements, spanning the entire business. From content and channels, to product development and technology, sales, and strategy. Plus, you’ll be financially supported to study for your CIMA qualification while gaining relevant experience – meaning that you’ll be able to join the world’s largest and leading professional body of Management Accountants.
Through your business rotations, you’ll learn how to set budgets and track against them, develop business cases to support projects and investment decisions, analyse data to provide key insight, and collaborate with teams across the business to meet and exceed our business targets.
You’ll have our full support to study for your CIMA qualification – with fully funded study and exam days and graduate committee guidance. At Sky your team will support you to make sure your exams can be your number one priority.”
Programme facts
- These roles are based in Osterley, West London
- Programme duration is 3 years, rolling off into a permanent position
- Expected start is February 2024.
What we’re looking for
The one essential requirement is that you have or will be graduating soon. It doesn’t matter what your degree is in. We’re much more interested in your passion for numbers and the drive and ambition you can bring to the team.
Other skills we’re looking for include:
- A problem-solver
- Collaborative and great with people
- A self-starter, eager to drive change in an exciting and dynamic environment.
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