Undergraduate - Parts Pricing

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:

To support the Honda Motor Europe UK (HME-UK) purpose to be a trusted business, powered by our passion to excel through continuous change. As part of the wider aftersales business, the role holder will support the strategic direction to 700+ investor sites across the UK for our Automotive, Motorcycles and Power Products division. 

This placement opportunity within our UK aftersales business offers the role holder industry experience working within the European Head Office of a global brand. With a vision to realise carbon neutrality by 2050 and support the electrification experience the customer has from an aftersales perspective; this is an exciting time to be part of Honda’s aftersales business. This position supports the UK aftersales parts operations with improving investor’s profitability through business best practice processes and retention programmes.

This placement offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience within Honda's UK Aftersales business at the European Head Office of a global brand. The role holder will develop commercial, analytical and financial skills while supporting pricing, profitability, retention and business improvement activities. Working with colleagues across the UK and Europe, as well as external partners, the role holder will contribute to real business projects, develop reporting and data analysis capabilities, build stakeholder management skills, and gain valuable exposure to how strategic decisions are made within a complex international organisation.

Main Responsibilities:

• Learn about all product areas: Automobile, Motorcycle and ATV, Marine & Power Products.
• Develop and implement strategies that will improve our customer’s aftersales experience.
• Research and analyse pricing data and information then present your findings and recommendations for improvements.
• Generate new ideas to solve problems, implement them at test stage through to roll out.
• Project support and leading programme implementation, including preparing business case proposals, creating project documents and reports, preparing progress reports and creating action plans.
• Gaining a wider understanding of price setting, turnover and profitability.
• Collaborating with multiple teams across the business, issuing data, reporting and improving the performance in the division through project work.
• Coding invoices and raising POs for major suppliers.

Qualifications, skills and experience:
Required

• Current undergraduate student seeking a work placement as part of their degree programme.
• 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. 
• Willingness to work in a team and collaborate on projects.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Organised with ability to multi-task different priorities effectively.

Desirable

• Studying towards a degree in Business Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Analytics or another relevant subject. 
• Experience in data visualisation, especially PowerBI.
• Understanding of Accountancy and Finance principles.
• Willingness to travel within the UK and Europe where required.

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.