Management Trainee Review

My role varies greatly depending on which placement i am on. on my current placement, my day to day role is to forge lasting relationships with external clients and internal stakeholders and use these relationships to identify new business and grow existing contracts. I have also lead a number of external tender processes as bid manager.

Placement 1: Process management, performance management, asset standardisation and data analysis. Placement 2: Compliance management and Technical Compliance Auditing. Placement 3: Sales force reporting, Bid management, Bid writing, contract pricing, stakeholder relationship management and understanding of full bid process.

I love the work that i have been getting involved with. i feel that from the start of each placement i have been tasked to complete real projects that will have a positive effect on the business rather than just being given stuff to keep me busy.

I thought it has been organised very well considering all the changes and challenges due to covid. When ever there has been a big development that has changed the structure of the scheme we have been notified in full as soon as its been confirmed.

The level of support whilst on the scheme has been really good. whoever i have gone to for support on projects, bids or other pieces of work, have gotten back to me really quickly and provided as much help as possible. this includes the talent management team, operations teams, commercial teams, HR, Business development and exec level senior management.

Our training provider redsky have been great, our tutor has always provided us with loads of support across all elements of the course. This support has ensured that i always get my assignments in on time and prevented me from falling behind at any point.

The management qualification has fed in really nicely with a previous apprenticeship level qualification i have in facilities management. This second course has allowed me to build on a lot of existing knowledge and form a much more well rounded understanding of the different elements.

Yes we were due to go on a number of grad training retreats over the course but due to covid these were cancelled and delivered online instead. whilst we havent been able to physically gather together, ENGIE has mad a number of online event to assist with networking.

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I feel that ENGIE are really keen to invest in young talent and help them to raise quickly along their chosen career pathway. in addition, if you are unsure of the career path way to take, the grad scheme and apprenticeship schemes are a great way to get some really good experience in several different areas of the business. This experience will give you a good idea of what your interests or talents are.

Be as proactive as possible, use your managers as a guide as to what work needs completing but try and run with your own ideas on how to deliver as much as possible. if you run into difficulties that try and find the right contact within the business to reach out to rather than always going back to your manager.