Undergraduate - Trading Solutions in Birmingham

Location: Birmingham, GB, B37 7YE

Country/Region: GB

Contract type: Full time

Our UK Trading IT team deliver continuous change within a fast-paced business environment, seeking to identify issues and opportunities to proactively deliver solutions to the business. Our undergraduate will become an integral part of the team working alongside industry experts in full trade lifecycle within short term trading and optimisation.

We are Uniper. At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in diverse teams with great working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterised by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply, as well as pro-actively help to shape changes.

Your responsibilities:

• Identify, shape, catalogue and implement business and functional requirements, particularly where there is strategic fit with Uniper goals.
• Document business requirements and current solutions with a view to implementing improvements in line with our IT strategy.
• Prepare cost estimates and project timelines for completing recommended solutions.
• Provide input into user education and implementation plans.
• Identify process improvements in relation to specific projects/tasks.
• Participate in architecture, data design and review of the applications landscape, focusing on identifying and reporting project and system improvement ideas.
• Participate within incident management process, proactively taking measures to improve quality.

You will be aligned closely to our core IT strategy, adopting a combination of digital learning and on-the-job training, building a wealth of new skills with the help of industry experts who are invested in your success.

Your profile:

• Studying for a university degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Finance, Maths, Artificial Intelligence or similar.
• Logical and structured way of thinking, high organisational skills with the ability to present complex topics targeted to the audience.
• Ability to demonstrate confidence in building partnerships with the business.
• Managing individual project scope on time and to budget.
• Passionate about continuous improvement in the entire process landscape to move manual processes to a digital and automated setup.
• Problem solving, creativity, staying positive, working under pressure, aiming high, leadership and teamwork.
• Excellent written and spoken English language skills.
• Understanding or experience of cloud computing and Microsoft Office applications.
• Understanding of application development lifecycle.
• Interest in the Energy Industry and genuine passion for IT.

At Uniper, we reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension, and health-related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements while supporting home office equipment.

Through regular training and workshops, we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries.

Personal development and learning opportunities include:

• Enhanced company pension – with up to 12% company contributions.
• 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
• Electric vehicle charging at our sites.
• In-house Occupational Health Services.
• Company funded Private Medical Insurance including free GP service.
• Performance related benefits.
• Access to a range of flexible benefits such as Share Incentive Plan, Dental, Critical Illness and Life Insurance, Cycle2Work or buy and sell extra holiday.
• Future career opportunities (UK & International) with a strong focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential.

Your contact:

Should you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact ResourcingUK@Uniper.Energy. Please note, any CVs sent via email will not be taken into consideration. All CVs must be submitted via the online application process only.

Job information:

• Contract type: Working Hours: Full time
• Start Date: 22/06/2026
• Deadline: 03/03/2026

As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.