Operations Associate (Graduate Internship)

Note: Partly has offices in London (UK), Christchurch (NZ) and Austin (Texas). Wherever you’re based, we’ll connect you with your nearest office for onboarding and fly you to join the full team for our quarterly Season Openers (we cover travel and accommodation). If you’re relocating to join us, we can also assist with relocation costs.

Our story

Partly’s mission is to connect the world’s parts. We’re building the first global platform for the automotive replacement parts industry and we’re growing fast. Our platform connects repairers, suppliers and insurers, helping the whole industry move from fragmented, manual processes to something smarter. We’re a global team of engineers, operators and problem solvers. We move quickly, we care deeply about the work and we hold a high bar.

This role

We’re launching the UK Partly Repairer Ambassador Programme – a 3‑month, full‑time (with flexibility) paid internship for a small cohort of sharp, driven graduates who want real responsibility from day one. This is for people who want something more than a coffee run and a PowerPoint, and will lead to a full‑time job for those who truly have an impact.

Your job: get newly onboarded repair shops actively using the Partly platform as fast as possible. That means building relationships on the ground, understanding why certain shops aren’t placing orders through us and removing those barriers. It also means being the human face of Partly in repair shops across the UK, someone repairers actually trust and like talking to. This is not a desk job. You’ll spend the first 1–2 weeks in our London office receiving structured training, then you’ll be out visiting customers across your region.

Key details:

• Contract: 3 months, full‑time with flexibility
• Start: as soon as possible
• Location: UK‑wide (field‑based, with training in London)

What will you do

• Visit newly signed repair shops in your region and get them ramped up on the Partly platform
• Understand why shops aren’t placing jobs through us and figure out how to fix it
• Genuinely help shops to optimise and streamline procuring parts
• Track and improve repairer activity, reporting back to the team on what’s working
• Build authentic relationships with shop owners and parts managers
• Feed insights back to the wider business so we keep making the product and onboarding better

Want to learn more about the problems we’re solving and the culture we’re building at Partly? Hear directly from our team here: https://shorturl.at/iAFUX

What we’re looking for

• A recent graduate (either from university or from mechanical and engineering HND courses and apprenticeships) with a hunger to learn and get stuck in
• Someone with common sense and the ability to read a room; this role involves building trust with people who work with their hands for a living
• A full UK driving licence (your own car is a big plus)
• Comfortable being on the road most of the week
• Organised, self‑directed, and confident working independently
• Comfortable around automotive professionals. This could come from a genuine interest in cars, working on your own vehicle, following motorsport, spending time in automotive environments, or simply having the curiosity and confidence to quickly get up to speed with industry terminology and talk shop with customers

Please note: if you don’t have all the skills/experience listed above but believe you could be outstanding in this role, please still consider applying. Many folks often count themselves out. Please allow us to learn more about you and why you’re exceptional.

What You’ll Get

• £102 per day
• Travel and accommodation costs covered
• Real responsibility and customer‑facing experience from week one
• A strong reference and genuine insight into how a fast‑growing tech company operates
• A realistic path to a full‑time role at Partly at the end of the programme for the people who excel