Why Work at Lenovo
Description and Requirements
We are dedicated to fostering an environment that encourages entrepreneurship and ownership - a workplace where your talents can be challenged, and your efforts recognised and rewarded.
We are looking for a number of students to learn a professional role within our industry, we take pride in having successful individuals in our technical business with a wide offering of skills and attributes, we are also keen to develop and retain the successful students for the future.
We will have a number of 12-month placement opportunities within our Sales business, in areas such as;
- Consumer Sales - working with retail partners
- Enterprise and Public Sector Sales - large organizations in the UK
- Channel Sales - working with our IT Channel Partners
- Work closely with the Internal and External Account Managers to assist with day-to-day sales activities.
- Quoting and bid creation for end users to match their specifications.
- Daily use of CRM programmes such as SAP, Microsoft D365
- Managing the relationship between Lenovo and our loan evaluation company to ensure end users get loan units and subsequently return them on time.
- Monitoring orders during the manufacturing, shipping and delivery stages to ensure distributers/resellers/end users are kept up to date with progress
- Supporting the sales team with any other requests.
- Group and individual project work
- Managing the Lenovo Sales UK email inbox
- Constant communication with distribution and business partners regarding product knowledge, stock availability, setting up bid pricing and closing deals
- Creating focus SKUs, managing aged stock, support for 4P
- Assisting with marketing activity to help prepare and execute shows for business partners
- Representing Lenovo at a series of exhibitions where we will promote Lenovo to business partners and customers
- Creation of reports by filtering online spreadsheets and presenting them to the team.
- Bid creation and CTO creation of machines to customer specifications.
Essential Attributes
- Good time management skills
- Good networking and Customer Service skills
- Display a positive attitude, assertive and determined
- Creative and adaptable
- Teamwork and Cooperation
Minimum Requirements
- On course to achieve at least a 2:1 degree classification
- Be undertaking a placement as part of your degree
- Have had previous paid/unpaid work experience
These roles are for 12 months; based in Chineham, Basingstoke
Staff Testimonial = “Having joined Lenovo just over a year ago now I know I made the right choice. Lenovo is a great company to work for with an emphasis on picking the right people to do the job and fit with the culture. Work here is never dull, it has a fast pace and dynamic culture, which means that working in an industry leading company is a fantastic opportunity to gain lifelong skills that will help shape my career. There's a focus on both career development and rewarding great work - areas that other companies can often overlook but that really make a difference to the employees