Undergraduate - IT Project Support

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 2 days per week, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office. 

Role:

This is an undergraduate placement opportunity for a current university student looking to gain practical experience as part of their degree programme.

Working within Honda’s European IT department, the role holder will support the delivery of digital projects and solutions for Honda customers across websites and apps. The role holder will work alongside Project Managers, Business Analysts and other stakeholders across the business, supporting project tracking, issue management and requirements gathering. 

The placement provides practical experience in project delivery, business analysis and digital solutions within an international business environment, while developing your analytical, organisational and stakeholder management skills.

Main Responsibilities:

• Work as part of cross-functional project teams, including Project Managers, Business Analysts and Solution Architects, alongside suppliers, digital agencies and business users across Europe.
• Support the delivery of digital solutions through testing and defect tracking.
• Act as an initial point of contact for product issues following implementation, ensuring these are appropriately escalated within the project team.
• Provide project administration support, including arranging meetings, preparing documentation and recording meeting notes and actions.
• Support project governance activities, including maintaining risk, issue and change logs using relevant internal and supplier systems such as SharePoint and JIRA.

Qualifications, skills and experience:
Required

• Must be a current undergraduate student looking for a placement as part of their degree programme.
• Well organised, motivated to learn and comfortable using own initiative. 
• Able to manage a variety of tasks and priorities in a fast-moving environment. 
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with good attention to detail. 
• Good planning and prioritisation skills, with the confidence to work independently when required. 
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to work with stakeholders at different levels. 
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

Desirable

• Studying towards a degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Business Management, Digital Business, Business Analytics or another relevant subject.
• Knowledge or understanding of the systems development lifecycle, including Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

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.