IT Graduate

Thebigchoice.com has rebranded! We're now Beetroot.com! Read what this means for you here

IT Graduate

Company: Warburtons Ltd

Location: Bromley Cross

Salary: Competitive

Contract type: Contract

Job Description:

Company description: At Warburtons, family is at the heart of our business. Five generations' worth of expertise that goes into making our bakery products allows us to continue a tradition of baking inherited over the past 141 years. Warburtons is the largest bakery brand in the UK, but that doesn't allow us to rest on our laurels. We are pioneers of the industry and ambitious market leaders, always seeking to challenge ourselves and convention.

Job description: Job Title: SAP IT Graduate. Location: Bolton. Are you a graduate who is highly driven, with excellent people skills, a keen interest in IT, and a passion for business improvement through the utilisation of SAP solutions? The Recipe: We are offering you the opportunity to work with an established long-serving IT team who will support you on your learning journey and development over the next 2 to 3 years enabling you to become a Business Systems Manager and setting a platform for you to progress to Senior Leadership in IT.

This is a Business facing role working within the IT Applications team from our head office in Bolton. You will gain experience across many aspects of IT, drive value through technology across the business, work with well-known software companies like SAP and support on key business change projects.

The Role:

1. Business Analysis: Works with key stakeholders to gather business requirements, identifying opportunities for improvement and translating requirements into viable IT solutions.
2. Business Partnering: Builds great relationships across the business and is able to communicate technical and complex scenarios/solutions in a simple and easy to understand way.
3. IT Application Support: Provides support to end users for requests and incidents ensuring standard operating procedures are followed.
4. End User Training: Ensures end users are equipped to use technology solutions in the most optimal way through adequate training and documentation.
5. Continuous Improvement: Identify and deliver solutions for improvement in the use of and the business value derived through SAP application systems.
6. Analytics: Builds knowledge of business data held in systems and engages with the business to drive insight through new and changes to Analytics solutions.
7. Supplier Management: Works closely with IT Partners ensuring delivery of quality solutions and develops collaborative relationships that add value to the IT department and wider business.

Essential Ingredients: Degree Qualified (flexible on subject for example, Business, IT, Engineering, Mathematics etc), preferably a 1st or a 2:1. You must have experience using SAP in your studies or a relevant SAP certification. Keen interest in IT and project work. Willing to learn and to study towards various IT qualifications and people management skills. Self-starter and confident working in teams. Excellent communication skills: influential; persuasive; articulate; gains and maintains attention when speaking to a group of people. Strong IT literacy and experience using MS Office suite. Self-organised, self-motivated, action-oriented and efficient. Excellent relationship builder: establishing credibility with both internal and external contacts at all levels. Customer focus: always considers the impact that IT solutions have on internal customers, puts the customer first. Demonstrates strong analytical skills and is able to balance the need for analysis and rigour with speed of action when solving problems.

Extra Dough: A slice of the annual profits (discretionary profit share). Family time is important to us, and we know it will be to you, so you have the opportunity to purchase up to an extra week's annual leave. Award-winning pension scheme. Products you will love along with deals and discounts for you and the family through our Extra Dough website. Continued investment in your personal development. Cycle to work scheme. Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy with your daily brew. Support for your health and wellbeing, including access to free physiotherapy, 24/7 access to a confidential helpline for practical advice, and a comprehensive occupational health service.

So, if you're interested in gaining a career in IT and you would love to work within a fast-paced innovative family business that puts our people at the heart of it, then your journey starts here. To apply, please complete our online application including uploading a copy of your CV, make sure you fill in as much information as you can to give yourself the best chance of standing out from the crowd.

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.

How to apply: Click the apply button below to begin your application. Don't forget to mention Beetroot to employers when you apply for the role.