Undergraduate - Business Management Publications

At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work.  The regular office hours are 08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 – 13:00 on a Friday.  However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement.

Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home for a maximum of 50% of the working days in any one month, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

Role: 

Honda Motor Europe provides a service to 17 countries across Europe for our Cars, Motorcycles and Power Products. With a vision to realise carbon neutrality by 2050 and striving to realise a ‘zero environmental footprint’ this is an exciting time to be part of Honda and be a part of that change.

The experience:

• Compliments any Business Management degree or similar
• Team working and adding value to the Publications and Retail Environment department
• Supporting the team with key business projects 
• Implementing improvements that not only change the business but improve our customers experience with Honda
• Visiting our branches and dealers
• Communicating with our colleagues in Honda in Europe and Japan
• Learn business practices and planning techniques and tools that can be utilised in any future career
• Have the opportunity to present data, proposals and recommendations to stakeholders of all levels including your peers, senior managers and EU or Japanese colleagues 

Whilst this is an office-based role, there may also be the opportunity to visit our dealer network, the European branch offices, the Honda Logistics Centres, and our Pan European suppliers.

Main Responsibilities:
Publications 

• Supporting the timely delivery of publications across the UK and Europe, both in printed and digital formats. 
• Supporting the completion of quality evaluations of owner’s manuals and other documents to ensure suitability for publishing.
• Project activity support within the department to ensure smooth implementation of new initiatives/systems.
• Ensuring that your activities follow the standard operating procedures and identifying and implementing areas for process improvement on a daily basis.
• Data analysis, report preparation and presentation at all levels within the business.
• Regular communication with our global offices and our compounds/warehouses across Europe. 
• General administrative duties, such as email administration, raising purchase orders and tracking deliveries.

Retail Environment

• Supporting the management of the Motorcycle Brand Review programme ensuring compliancy with Honda Design guidelines
• Project administration and liaising with Pan-European branches on a regular basis 
• Ongoing management of visual assets by promoting activities and Honda products 
• Identifying relevant stakeholders in other Divisions to plan ad hoc-activities and ensuring timely project delivery    

Qualifications, skills and experience:
Required

• Must be an undergraduate looking for a placement as part of their studies.
• Proficient in MS Office packages to include PowerPoint and Excel
• Capable of balancing tasks to achieve set deadlines
• Proactive approach to motivate yourself to deliver ideas and improvements that make a difference to Honda. 
• Great communicator with the ability to build relationships at all levels
• Good business judgement and an eye for detail
• Willing to work within a team and collaborate on projects
• Inclusive and appreciative of cultural and product differences

Desirable

• Good Data Analysis skills
• Experience in a customer focused role
• Ability and willingness to travel in UK & Europe as required 
• A second language, in particular European or Japanese

Honda is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in the workplace for all employees, temporary workers, contractors, applicants and visitors. Honda also encourages respect for the individual differences and talents of others while making full use of one's own abilities, based on Honda's philosophy of respect for the individual.

At Honda, we value and celebrate diversity and are committed to being a fair, non-discriminatory company that promotes and welcomes the uniqueness and differences of people around the world. We recognise that a diverse workforce allows for different ideas and perspectives, and we encourage everyone to share them. We strive to foster a culture of belonging that is consistent with Honda's core values and lived out in the way we work and respect each other. For us at Honda, diversifying our workforce means increasing its overall strength by providing people with equal opportunities - regardless of personal characteristics or previous careers.

This commitment flows directly from the Honda philosophy and the belief that we are all working towards a common goal. Honda recruits, hires, trains and promotes the most qualified/experienced individuals at all levels without regard to race, origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.