Sales, Marketing & Contracts Business Graduate

Are you ready to launch your career and make an impact on real-world projects from day one?   

At Leonardo UK Helicopter Division, we’re looking for a Sales, Marketing & Contracts Business Graduate to be part of something bigger—shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety. 

We are committed to developing our graduates into leading technical or business professionals, and as such we will also support you through your preferred route for professional development. 

Our 2 year Graduate Programme gives you the opportunity to work on exciting and challenging projects alongside subject matter experts. 

Start with an Induction into Leonardo, followed by team building activities. There will also be a Sales, Marketing & Contracts specific induction to ensure that scheme requirements and expectations are fully established.

You will be provided with a wealth of development opportunities in both virtual and applied working environments.  On our programme you will engage with challenging and exciting project work and deliver innovative business or technical solutions as part of a team of subject matter experts.  Throughout the programme you will receive coaching and support from your team to achieve your objectives as well as your personal development goals.  We are committed to developing our graduates into leading technical or business professionals.

Typically, your placements will consist of 4 month rotations across our Bids and Proposals, Contract Management, UK Campaigns, Offset and Marketing Teams. This may include the opportunity to do a 3-month external placement elsewhere in the business. The graduate scheme will give you the opportunity to build on your technical knowledge and develop soft skills through opportunities that a direct entry position may not be able to. In conjunction with the Function Management Team and the Early Careers Team, you will have the opportunity to input into the design of your training scheme to include placements that give an insight into the complete Helicopter Product Business Life Cycle.

The Sales, Marketing & Contracts function provides the link between the customer and our world-class manufacturing and engineering business, focusing on In-Service Delivery and Business Acquisition activities. The function delivers capability to the UK Armed Forces via an innovative contracting and through life approach by sustained skills and design authority support and by achieving best in class service provision. This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to gain commercial experience supporting a variety of bids and long-term contracts for key programmes, products and customers. 

Entry Requirements 

• Minimum 2:2 Bachelors in an Economics/Business related subject or Masters in Management. Desirable: An understanding of basic business finance, profit and loss, margin and mark up, escalation, foreign exchange.

At Leonardo, many of our roles are subject to security and export control restrictions set by UK Government Security requirements and customer obligations.  As a result, and in line with the UK Government Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) requirements, all successful applicants will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record declaration information and employment and/or education history verification for the previous five years.

For staff operating in more sensitive posts, there is an additional range of personnel security controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV).  As part of this process, a range of factors may be considered, including an individual's background, travel history, nationality, previous nationalities held and other information relevant to the vetting assessment.

To be eligible for National Security Vetting at SC level, applicants will generally be expected to have continuously resided in the UK for the previous five years. For DV clearance, this is typically ten years.  In some circumstances, time spent overseas may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.  Additional vetting requirements may apply upon appointment.

For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting