Corporate Degree Apprenticeship

Summary

Our Corporate Degree Apprenticeship involves spending 3-years rotating between teams at Hilmore House, where decisions are made, (our central office in Bradford), developing new skills and working towards a degree.

Wage

Competitive

Competitive wage offered

Training course

Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)

Hours

We also operate a 5 day working week in Hilmore House, offering the chance to spend time in the office, focus on studying at home and develop your teamwork skills in our stores.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 1 September 2027

Duration

3 years

Positions available

5

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

Join us as a Corporate Degree Apprentice and make an impact on our business through getting involved in exciting business projects. You’ll progress through a series of placements, before choosing one area to specialise in during the final year, in areas such as: 

• Wholesale
• Corporate Services
• Online
• Marketing
• Loss Prevention
• Property

Where you'll work

Hilmore House
Gain Lane
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD3 7DL

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD

Training course

Chartered manager (degree) (level 6)

What you'll learn

Course contents

• Support the development of organisational strategies and plans. Develop and deliver operational plans; being able to set targets and KPIs, manage resources, and monitor and measure outcomes to establish operational effectiveness, efficiencies and excellence.   Produce reports that clearly present information and data, using a range of interpretation and analytical processes.  Gain wide support to deliver successful outcomes
• Plan, organise and manage resources in order to achieve organisational goals.  Identify key outcomes, develop and implement plans and monitor progress, and provide reports as required.  Proactively identify risk and create plans for their mitigation. Able to initiate, lead and drive change within the organisation, identifying barriers/challenges and how to overcome them. Ability to use widely recognised project management tools
• Managing budgets, controlling expenditure and production of financial reports
• Use of customer insight and analysis of data to determine and drive customer service outcomes and improve customer relationships.  Creative approaches to developing solutions to meet customer need
• Able to identify service/organisational improvements and opportunities for innovation and growth, using qualitative and quantitative analysis of information and data and benchmarking against others
• Communicate clearly, effectively and regularly using oral, written and digital channels and platforms.  Use active listening and open questioning to structure conversations and discussions, and able to challenge when appropriate.  Manage and chair meetings and clearly present actions and outcomes. Ability to apply influencing and persuading skills, to the dynamics and politics of personal interactions
• Able to articulate organisational purpose and values.  Support the creation of an inclusive, high performance work culture. Enable others to achieve by developing and supporting them through coaching and mentoring
• Able to build teams, empower and motivate others to improve performance or achieve outcomes.  Able to delegate to others, provide clear guidance and monitor progress. Ability to set goals and accountabilities
• Able to build rapport and trust, develop networks and maintain relationships with people from a range of cultures, backgrounds and levels.  Able to contribute within a team environment.  Effectively influence and negotiate, being able to have challenging conversations and give constructive feedback.  Work collaboratively with internal and external customers and suppliers
• Able to reflect on own performance, identifying and acting on learning and development needs. Ability to understand impact on others.  Can manage stress and personal well-being, and confident in knowing core values and drivers
• Able to create personal development plan, and use widely recognised tools and techniques to ensure the management of time and pressure effectively, and prioritisation and strategic alignment of activities
• Use evidence-based tools and ethical approaches to undertake problem solving and critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation to support decision making

Training schedule

As well as learning on-the-job, you’ll also be studying towards a BSc (Hons) Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship at the University of Bradford. Balancing work and a degree course will be challenging. To support your learning, we'll offer study leave to complete university work stress free. At the end of the 3-year scheme, Apprentices could be prepared for a specialist role and have gained a full chartered membership of the CMI (Chartered Management Institute). 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (or equivalent) (grade Grade 4)
• Maths (or equivalent) (grade Grade 4)

UCAS in:

112 UCAS points (grade 112 UCAS points)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Team working

Other requirements

Our apprentices get access to all our employee benefits, including buying scheme, contributary pension scheme, store discounts and MyPerks. This is a reward and benefits scheme that updated regularly with new and exciting offers.