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Commercial

Get involved in every aspect of Commercial Strategy and Planning. Identify new market opportunities and the latest products. Define our quarterly and annual commercial plans. Manage sales and retention. This internship will help you understand the marketplace, and our position in it. 

Commercial

Start date: 30th June 2025

£25,650 per annum pro rata|8 weeks

About this programme

Get involved in every aspect of Commercial Strategy and Planning. Identify new market opportunities and the latest products. Define our quarterly and annual commercial plans. Manage sales and retention. This internship will help you understand the marketplace, and our position in it. 

You could take on an internship in:

  • Propositional Development: decide which new products and services we should launch with the help of a clear strategy, as well as customer insights. 
  • Media Planning: work with creative agencies to decide how we should spend our budget.
  • Trading Performance: improve sales and customer retention by fine-tuning our pricing and promotion strategies, as well as the channels we use. 

Nothing happens on-screen without the talented people behind the scenes, working their magic every day at Sky. Join us for an internship and you’ll be working in a fun, fast-moving environment. Impress us, and we may well offer you a full-time position on our Business Strategy programme once you graduate – starting September 2026.

What you’ll be doing

  • Analyse the TV market and competitor activity to inform commercial plans 
  • Collate insights on broader trends in TV and technology 
  • Gather and review best practices from other functions on successful embedding of competitor insights 
  • Lead collation of cross-functional updates on key activities and projects 
  • Work closely with Finance and Insight teams 
  • Support on other relevant team priorities e.g. analysis of outputs from research projects, project progress updates 
  • Find new ways to leverage and streamline team activity and workflow

What we’re looking for

The one essential requirement is that you're currently studying for an undergraduate degree in any subject, and in your penultimate year.

Other skills we’re looking for include:

  • A great verbal and written communicator 
  • People orientated with strong organisational skills  
  • Detail focused 
  • Proactive and keen to drive improvements 
  • A problem solver, with skills to overcome obstacles

To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK by the start date of the programme. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this programme.

Status

Applications for this programme have now closed. Register your interest below and we'll let you know when the 2026 intenrship programme is open.

Application journey

  • Prep Hub

    This optional step will help you prepare for our application process — and you can access it before you’ve even applied.

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  • Application

    Time to submit your application on our system. We’ll be asking for your personal details, academic information and everything else that you think would be relevant such as work experience. That’s all there is to it.

    If we need to make adjustments to make you feel more comfortable at any stage, please let us know when you apply — we’ll be in touch to discuss.

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  • Digital Assessment

    Once your application is in, we’ll ask you to complete our immersive digital assessments. They’re mostly situational questions and will also include a video interview.

    We understand that you might want to utilise AI to support your preparation for taking the assessments – understanding Sky etc. But we ask that you complete the assessments themselves without the assistance of AI.

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  • Assessment Centre

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

    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 the day.

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  • We'll be in touch

    Once you’ve completed all the assessment steps, we’ll let you know when you can expect to hear back from us. Good luck!

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Prep Hub

Application

Digital Assessment

Assessment Centre

We'll be in touch

What do student think about our digital assessment?

93%


of people found our assessment to be interesting and insightful to complete.

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said our assessment was user friendly and easy to complete.

92%


felt like they were able to answer authentically and to be themselves in the assessment.

93%


said the assessment provided them with greater insight into Sky.

Preparation is key. In this short video, Junior gives a whistle stop tour of the Preparation Hub and explains how it can help you with your application.

Application tips

We know the application process can be daunting. Hear the top tips from our early careers team on how best to be prepared.

Prep Hub

Preparation is key. In this short video, Junior gives a whistle stop tour of the Preparation Hub and explains how it can help you with your application.

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Hear from our Commercial internship alumni

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    Eleanor Bevan

    Commerical Intern

    I am on the Commercial internship. The element thats so amazing about this particular internship at Sky is that its so broad and youre encouraged to speak to people from all different departments. And that really helps you understand how a business like Sky works, and where your role fits in within all of that.

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