Commercial Excellence Apprentice
HENKEL LIMITED
Hemel Hempstead (HP2 4RQ)
Closes in 8 days (Friday 2 May 2025)
Posted on 15 April 2025
Contents
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Henkel Consumer Brands as a degree apprentice in the Commercial Excellence team, working with leading brands such as LIVE, got2B, Bloo, Colour Catcher and Dylon Detergent!
- Wage
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£19,000 a year
- Training course
- Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 2 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years 11 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
Join the great team of Henkel’s Consumer Brands Commercial Excellence function with our exciting job opportunity!
Work with iconic brands such as Colour Catcher, Bloo, Schwarzkopf, Got2b, and Live.
Monitor, evaluate, and interpret customer performance data across our categories & brands.
Assist with utilising market data and shopper insights to identify joint opportunities for Henkel and retailers, which support the delivery of our category vision.
Collaborate with cross functional teams such as sales and marketing to respond to ad hoc requests for new insight.
Work with the team to optimise product portfolios within customers to grow distribution to drive category and Henkel sales.
Support in developing new insight reporting techniques.
Develop a deep understanding of the market through analysis of market data and competitor activity.
Identify emerging trends that can lead to commercial opportunities.
Where you’ll work
Henkel Limited Wood Lane End
Hemel Hempstead
HP2 4RQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Your training course
Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)
Equal to degree
Course contents
- Support the development of organisational strategies and plans. Develop and deliver operational plans; being able to set targets and KPIs, manage resources, and monitor and measure outcomes to establish operational effectiveness, efficiencies and excellence. Produce reports that clearly present information and data, using a range of interpretation and analytical processes. Gain wide support to deliver successful outcomes
- Plan, organise and manage resources in order to achieve organisational goals. Identify key outcomes, develop and implement plans and monitor progress, and provide reports as required. Proactively identify risk and create plans for their mitigation. Able to initiate, lead and drive change within the organisation, identifying barriers/challenges and how to overcome them. Ability to use widely recognised project management tools
- Managing budgets, controlling expenditure and production of financial reports
- Use of customer insight and analysis of data to determine and drive customer service outcomes and improve customer relationships. Creative approaches to developing solutions to meet customer need
- Able to identify service/organisational improvements and opportunities for innovation and growth, using qualitative and quantitative analysis of information and data and benchmarking against others
- Communicate clearly, effectively and regularly using oral, written and digital channels and platforms. Use active listening and open questioning to structure conversations and discussions, and able to challenge when appropriate. Manage and chair meetings and clearly present actions and outcomes. Ability to apply influencing and persuading skills, to the dynamics and politics of personal interactions
- Able to articulate organisational purpose and values. Support the creation of an inclusive, high performance work culture. Enable others to achieve by developing and supporting them through coaching and mentoring
- Able to build teams, empower and motivate others to improve performance or achieve outcomes. Able to delegate to others, provide clear guidance and monitor progress. Ability to set goals and accountabilities
- Able to build rapport and trust, develop networks and maintain relationships with people from a range of cultures, backgrounds and levels. Able to contribute within a team environment. Effectively influence and negotiate, being able to have challenging conversations and give constructive feedback. Work collaboratively with internal and external customers and suppliers
- Able to reflect on own performance, identifying and acting on learning and development needs. Ability to understand impact on others. Can manage stress and personal well-being, and confident in knowing core values and drivers
- Able to create personal development plan, and use widely recognised tools and techniques to ensure the management of time and pressure effectively, and prioritisation and strategic alignment of activities
- Use evidence-based tools and ethical approaches to undertake problem solving and critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation to support decision making
Your training plan
- At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying. This usually involves having a Thursday as your study day.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
A Level in:
- Any (grade B)
- Any (grade B)
- Any (grade B-C)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
About this company
Henkel is a manufacturing and FMCG organisation that operates worldwide with leading innovations, brands and technologies in three business areas: Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care. A few of our brands are Pritt, Loctite, Sellotape, Got2B and Bloos.
After this apprenticeship
- This role most commonly leads to a junior marketing, strategy or analytics role.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
HENKEL LIMITED
Anna Walsh
anna.walsh@henkel.com
01442278286
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315786.
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Closes in 8 days (Friday 2 May 2025)
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