Commercial Placement 2027 in London

Position Title: Commercial Placement 2027
Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 45508
Commercial Intern - 2027 Placement Opportunity
Scarborough
This is a placement year opportunity for , and not a grad scheme. This is only suitable for students who are due to finish their second year (doing a sandwich degree) and seeking a placement year opportunity!
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
Join our Major End Users team and see how McCain products reach millions of consumers through household names like Subway, Greggs, GDK and JD Wetherspoon. As a Placement Student, you'll get involved in a variety of projects, helping deliver trials, launches and customer activations while developing valuable commercial skills during your university placement year.
This placement will give you valuable hands-on experience and a strong foundation for your future career. You'll: Develop stakeholder management skills by working with cross-functional teams and supporting key customer relationships.
Gain a behind-the-scenes understanding of how major customer accounts are managed within a leading FMCG business.
Build practical commercial experience through customer projects, launches and business initiatives.
Strengthen your data analysis, communication and project management skills.
Gain exposure to senior leaders and customer-facing teams, helping you explore future career opportunities.
Leave with real-world experience, a professional network and skills that will help you stand out when you graduate.
What you'll be doing.
As our Placement Student, you'll get hands-on experience across a range of exciting customer projects, giving you real insight into how a leading FMCG business works. You'll: Support customer projects from initial concept through to launch and rollout.
Visit customer outlets to see first-hand how our products perform and how they're brought to life in a fast-paced foodservice environment.
Analyse sales, trial and commercial data, helping to identify trends, uncover insights and support recommendations.
Follow menu cycles and support the Request for Proposal (RFP) process, helping us deliver high-quality responses to customers.
Collaborate with teams across Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Technical and Culinary to keep projects moving forward.
Bring fresh thinking and new ideas to discussions around products, menus, customer opportunities and market trends.
Build valuable commercial experience while developing your professional skills during your university placement year.
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain exposure to some of the UK's most recognisable foodservice brands and see how ideas become reality in a global business.
What you'll need to be successful.
We're looking for an enthusiastic and curious undergraduate who is keen to gain real-world commercial experience during their placement year. You'll be someone who: Brings energy, initiative and a hands-on approach, and isn't afraid to get stuck in.
Has a genuine passion for food and an interest in how products make their way from concept to customer.
Keeps up with brands, consumer trends and what's happening across the food and hospitality sector.
Enjoys working with data and can turn information into meaningful insights and recommendations.
Builds strong relationships quickly and thrives when working as part of a team.
Is confident communicating with a variety of stakeholders and contributing ideas.
Is currently studying towards a degree in any discipline and is looking to complete a year-long industrial placement as part of your course.
This role would suit a proactive, commercially minded student who is excited by the opportunity to work with some of the UK's best-known foodservice brands while developing skills that will set you up for a successful career.
Benefits.
Although we do encourage you to taste the goods, you'll be pleased to know we don't pay you in chips. Alongside your salary, you'll enjoy a range of benefits including: Sign on bonus additional to your annual salary - to help you get started!
Private healthcare (single)
An excellent salary sacrifice pension scheme where we'll contribute double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your salary
25 days' annual leave from day one plus