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Management Development Scheme
Diversey’s Management Development Scheme is designed to help high potential graduate individuals develop into future Business Leaders. Although this scheme is designed to provide all trainees with a broad business background, graduates / management trainees will be expected to initially choose from one of the following career paths:
Graduate Trainee Profiles
Sales
Institutional
If you are ambitious, enthusiastic, strategically-minded and self-motivated, read on.
An exciting career opportunity for determined individuals to join our Institutional Sales Force and help drive this fast-growing sector of the business onward and upward. This challenging, field-based role requires excellent communication skills, as you obtain and forge relationships with new customers, and build and enhance those of our existing client base, across a broad range of sectors (Healthcare, Food Service, Contract Catering, Building Service Contractors, Retail, Lodging, Government and Education).
With emphasis placed on strategic understanding of the context of each piece of business, you will proactively explore and research your local markets on an ongoing basis, so that you better understand the specific needs of your customers and can maximise profitability. To this end, you will possess the ability to interact with internal and external customers across the entire business, your objective being to serve their needs on time, every time, and meet and exceed their expectations all the time.
The Diversey portfolio includes award-winning systems and groundbreaking products and services. This is a genuine chance for you to launch yourself into a thriving environment, with full training and support provided and hard work rewarded. If you are willing to seize opportunity, this is an enviable first step on the career ladder.
Distributors
Sales within Diversey means having an intimate understanding of your customers and working with them to achieve success for Diversey and for their businesses. In the Distributor team we regard our customers as our partners and as they sell our products on our behalf we support them to make doing this simple and worthwhile. Growing our business means growing our customers’ business and the only way to do this is to work together.
You could find yourself managing national and independent distributors – growing business by winning new accounts, selling in promotions, launching new products and training their people.
Naturally, you will also need to understand Diversey inside out and you can expect to have frequent contact with internal teams in marketing and customer service. Across the sales organisation you will build up a network with sales teams and they will call on your expertise as well. Externally be prepared to work with people at all levels of your customers’ business – sales people, warehouse managers, branch managers, company directors, telesales managers, buyers, etc.
An opportunity to make a real difference to Diversey and our customers, if you can demonstrate drive, ambition, creativity and outstanding problem solving skills, you will find the opportunities, responsibility and rewards at Diversey.
Cash & Carry
Sales within Diversey is about gaining experience and adding value in real time business situations. This is accomplished through the processes involved in internal/external projects and customer interaction. In the Cash & Carry team understanding your customers’ wants and needs is key to a successful working relationship. In this environment you must think of your customer not only as the Cash & Carry but also the end user.
You could find yourself as the face of Diversey as you fill the role of an Account Manager. With the support of a winning team and the strong portfolio of Diversey market leading brands you will be given early responsibility that will see you partner your varied national and independent Cash & Carry outlets as you grow both your customers and Diversey’s business.
It’s not all about straightforward selling; account management will see you proactively develop your customers’ offerings through the communication and sharing of your market expertise. A clear understanding of the end user will allow you to partner your Cash & Carry’s as you implement effective merchandising and national/local promotions.
If you’re pro-active, creative, focussed and can demonstrate ambition and a strong will to succeed you’ll find JohnsonDiversey can offer you the opportunities that you’ve been waiting for.
Food and Beverage
As a Sales Trainee in the Food Group you will be given considerable responsibility from early on and you will be faced with a steep learning curve. You will establish and maintain contact with customers in the food industry and provide them with hygiene solutions from Diversey’s industry-leading product and service portfolio. Hereby, you will not only learn about and liaise with a wide variety of divisions within the company, but you will also develop a better understanding of customers’ needs and of how to meet those needs in a professional way.
While the Sales role will require you to be proactive, to take your own decisions and to prioritise different tasks, you will receive continuous support from an enthusiastic and knowledgeable team of colleagues. Through regular interaction with customers and teamwork with colleagues you will have the opportunity to develop and improve your project and people management, communication and consultancy skills. The skill set you will develop in this role will make you perfectly suited for a future general management role.
Marketing
If you are a confident and enthusiastic individual who understands business dynamics and if you enjoy challenge then Marketing may just be the thing for you!
At Diversey Product Marketing is at the heart of the business, driving and supporting the business strategy. As a member of this team you would play a key role in driving profitable growth and helping strengthen our position as the UK market leader.
With a total portfolio value of over £135M Diversey continuously strives to best in the market place. The product portfolio includes award-winning systems and groundbreaking products and services. Your role in Product Marketing will allow you to shape and implement a portfolio strategy, to manage new product innovation, and to investigate and cement new business ventures with potential partners.
The most exciting part of this role is the interaction throughout the business from Supply Chain and Technical, right through to the Sales teams and customers. Strong communication skills and the ability to demonstrate creative thinking are needed to generate new business insights and turn them into realistic plans. In this role you will certainly experience the 4 “P’s” of marketing and touch every function of the business in order to deliver to the market place. Having a strong capability in project management and a working knowledge of software systems will help you succeed and advance quickly.
So if you have the ability to think strategically and to understand and implement the detail…why not think of a career in Marketing?
Finance
Being part of the finance function in Diversey means you will be in a very broad business role to drive value creation. Not only will you cover the essential core activities of accounting, control, risk management and business planning, but you will also act as a key business financial partner across all activities in the business - whether this be sales, marketing, technical or supply chain. In finance you get a real 'helicopter' view of the whole business - combining strategic perspective with attention to detail for supporting business change to achieve financial results. Information management and the use of IT tools is an essential part of the role, together with excellence in project and process management. Analytical skills, communication skills and enthusiastic drive are critical to the success of a financial role - we are not looking for book-keepers! In addition to your hands-on financial training, we also support all finance trainees in attaining professional accounting qualifications.
Supply Chain
In 2005 our Derbyshire factory won Factory of the Year (Manufacturing Advisory Service Award for Manufacturing Excellence, Resource Efficiency and People Effectiveness)
Diversey’s supply chain model is made up of Plan, Source, Make, Deliver. You will play a key role in converting customer forecasts and orders into a delivered product and your goal will be to deliver all customer orders in full, every time. Supply Chain roles offer a wide diversity of opportunities from Line Operations Management whether it be in the warehouse or Factories to Supply Planning, Source and Supplier Management. The supply chain is all about making things happen efficiently and continuously improving, to which end there are countless opportunities to make a difference from day 1 within the UK and also within the rest of the European, Middle East and African region.
Being able to deliver customer expectations through people is key to Supply Chain success and you will have the opportunity to impact on every part of the business very quickly. For anyone with a technical background who enjoys and can demonstrate team and project leadership and wants to have early opportunities to develop these skills this is the role for you.
Research, Development and Engineering
Our approach to doing business depends upon a sustainable environment and RD&E plays a pivotal role in this. So we strive to provide a diverse portfolio of products, services and programs that help our customers maintain safe, healthy, high performing facilities.
Sometimes that means developing new dispensing or chemical technology. Sometimes that means partnering with other businesses, organizations, governments and non-governmental agencies. And it always means we work closely with our customers. They demand a responsible approach to health and hygiene solutions for their facilities. JohnsonDiversey continued its legacy of environmental leadership in 2005, driven by our RD&E teams. We applied it along the whole supply chain: from our laboratories, to our packaging and dispensing design, from our production practices and delivery, to end-use training. Our approach to environmental responsibility and to RD&E goes well beyond chemistry.
Supply Chain and Research, Development and Engineering require an engineering or science degree.
Management Trainee Application Forms
How the Management Development Scheme works:
The aim of the scheme is to recruit talented individuals with the potential and ambition to become future leaders of our business. The scheme forms the basis of your first two/three years with the company and will prepare you for management responsibility. From day one, you will start to build an in-depth understanding of our business, the customers we serve and the markets in which we operate.
The scheme focuses your development on three areas:
1. Functional and Technical Skills
2. Business Acumen and Operating Skills
3. Self Knowledge and Career Ambition
Your Professional Development
You will have immediate responsibility, as your placements are real jobs from day one. These placements will take you around the Diversey organisation providing a wide view of the business where you will have the opportunity to make an impact from your very first day.
Both on and off the job training is provided for all management trainees in skills, knowledge and competency development. You will learn about our strategy, our products and systems, get first hand experience of working with our customers and get international experience working outside of the UK in another Diversey Operating Company. As well as developing a broad business perspective you will also develop expertise in your chosen function by leading projects in your own functional area and where appropriate studying for professional qualifications, fully supported by the company.
Your Personal Development
Individuals join us each with their own unique set of strengths. Your own strengths and development needs will be assessed using our global management and leadership competency framework and you will have a development plan tailored to your own development needs. You will get regular feedback supported by more formal six monthly performance and development reviews. Our aim is to work with you to develop your own appreciation of your strengths and development needs in the context of a management role in business. You will be supported through the Management Development Scheme by a senior manager who will act as your mentor.
Once you have successfully completed the Management Development Scheme, we will work with you to plan your ongoing development and create a development plan which supports your goals.
Our Selection Process
Our selection process has been designed as a two-way process – to enable us to determine your abilities and potential and to enable you to decide if we will be able to fulfil your goals.
The first step is completing the application form. This form has been designed to allow you to present a picture of your talents, interests and ambitions. In return, we promise that it will be read and evaluated by one of our specially trained assessors.
This is your chance to create a great first impression.
Download: Management Trainee Application Forms