Business Development Apprentice - Junior Management Consultant Programme, London

The Business

Willis Towers Watson is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth. With roots dating to 1828, Willis Towers Watson has 45,000 employees serving more than 140 countries. We design and deliver solutions that manage risk, optimize benefits, cultivate talent, and expand the power of capital to protect and strengthen institutions and individuals. Our unique perspective allows us to see the critical intersections between talent, assets and ideas – the dynamic formula that drives business performance. Together, we unlock potential.

At Willis Towers Watson, we help clients align their work & rewards strategy and their employee experience with their business strategy to achieve long-term success. We rely on data, analytics and experience to pinpoint the talent and workforce needs that are vital to their overall performance. We develop strategies and design and implement programs that address these needs, drive higher performance and ensure the right return on their investment in people. Backed by industry-leading technology, global workforce data, research and insights, we help our clients quickly transform ideas into action.

The Role

*** Please note that we do not accept multiple applications and you should only select and apply to one programme per year***

Level 4 Junior Management Consultant Apprenticeship Programme

Closing Date:31 January 2022

This role enables the GB Work & Rewards and Employee Experience* businesses to achieve client growth targets by supporting the Client Impact team in implementing new business activities. This team consists of executive management, sales enablement and lead generation professionals. It is a highly varied role predominately covering tasks such as creating sales related collateral (mainly in PowerPoint and Word), facilitating marketing events, follow up campaigns, collating and designing internal and external emails and communication material, client segmentation, coordinating prospect and client knowledge across systems and excel, project managing work flow and working with their line manager/operations team on ad-hoc projects.

Responsibilities:

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• Using excel to analyse lists of clients for various prospecting, events and campaign tasks
• Working with the Business Development Associate to improve and create PowerPoint slides for proposals, pitches and the ongoing content library.
• Creating creative emails on behalf of the executive team and preparing collateral for Client Impact team initiatives within the business
• Supporting the Lead Generation Associate with prospect research and collateral production, this can include analysing information and client lists to identify opportunities. In doing so you will become an expert and source of client knowledge to join dots across the business
• Coordinating initiatives to improve Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems with support from administrators and offshore resources

Events co-ordination support:

• GB event coordinator for events not supported by central marketing.
• Working with the central marketing team and Marketing lead to deliver events
• Project managing the marketing and events calendar – tracking events, prompting publications, social media, LinkedIn

Communications/Operations

• Supporting with the creation of client-facing publications
• Building awareness of products that can be marketed through publications/ events.
• Supporting Growth meetings and Senior Seller meetings / Away Day meetings.

Training & Qualifications

This Apprenticeship is a 15-month programme where you will be provided on the job training and a highly competitive study support package for the Level 4 Junior Management Consultant qualification. You will be fully supported by Willis Towers Watson and our official government approved Training Provider throughout the duration of the programme. The programme involves formal classroom learning and online webinars where apprentices will learn communication and team-working skills, business analysis, relationship building and project management among many others.

Sponsored by the Employee Experience and Work & Rewards leadership team, our programme also provides access to senior mentors and a “buddy network” to support your wider career development, with ample networking and experience-building opportunities.

This foundational programme is part of Willis Towers Watson’s culture of learning, which supports career development for all our colleagues, from apprentices through to senior leaders.

The Requirements

• 3 A-Levels or equivalent qualifications, ideally including subjects such as English and Maths
  • Advanced understanding of the Microsoft Office suite (i.e. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
  • Outlook
  • Grammar/spelling
  • Typing/data entry speed and accuracy

This role will suit a ‘doer’ who is conscientious, tenacious and consistent with a good eye for design and detail. They must show initiative to have own ideas and drive your own work tasks during business as usual.

• Strong communicator, with clear written and oral communication skills
• The ability to be persistent and persuasive with colleagues at all levels within the business
• Strong customer service and client focus
• Solution focused
• Attention to detail

• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to estimate workload, prioritise and work to agreed timescales reliably
• Flexible approach in undertaking a variety of responsibilities, capable of handling and providing creative solutions to problems
• Good level of numeracy

Willis Towers Watson is an equal opportunity employer

Willis Towers Watson believes that effectively managing a diverse workforce is vital to our business strategy. We have an obligation to our organisation, ourselves and our clients to hire and develop the best people we can find. We will continually review our policies and practices to ensure that all areas of the employment process (including recruiting, hiring, work assignments, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, company-sponsored development programs and overall workplace experience) are free from discriminatory practices. We are committed to equal employment opportunities at Willis Towers Watson.

Why work at Willis Towers Watson?

Willis Towers Watson offers a variety of benefits to support your physical, emotional and financial wellbeing, as well as help you develop in your career, and balance your life inside and outside of work. Among other things, these include flexible working arrangements, shared parental leave, a range of Learning & Development (L&D) opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package (which includes Private Medical Insurance and Life Insurance).

The start date for the UK Apprenticeship Programme will be September 2022.

• our Work & Rewards and Employee Experience businesses were known as one Talent & Reward business

The Application Process

Stage 1:Online application, including CV
Stage 2:Online testing
Stage 3:Video interview – in partnership with the Bright Network, we have created an academy module on “How to Ace your Video Interview”. Clickhereto sign up and watch it!
Stage 4: Online assessment centre
Stage 5:Offer and on-boarding

Bright Network

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