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Unipart has provided me with a great
opportunity to build skills
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f e a t u r e
Making a
difference
Gareth Uden
Marketing Executive, Unipart Group
After graduating from Kingston University My next placement was based in Group
and was able to demonstrate the benefits
with a degree in Business Management, Purchasing with the project remit of
of the tools and how they can be integrated
I wanted a career which would be both designing and implementing a group-wide
into a sales and marketing environment.
challenging and rewarding. The Unipart employee energy education and
Group Graduate Programme provided me awareness scheme and the promotion
Unipart has provided me with a great
with just that. of the ‘Energy Management for Unipart
opportunity to build skills in marketing
Group’ (EMU). In order to present the
as my chosen functional area, but also
I joined the programme in 2005, and my findings to senior management within the
to develop wider business skills in the
first placement was operational in focus group, I based my Six Sigma project on
implementation and use of lean tools and
within a warehouse we operated for a the placement and successfully achieved a
techniques, which are useful skills for any
retail client. Working with a client who was Green Belt in 6 months.
area of business.
relatively new to the ideology of lean and
the Unipart Way (our philosophy of working Finally I moved into the Sales and
based around lean principles) enabled Marketing department of Unipart
me to quickly gain an understanding of Consumer Logistics where I am now based
the principles and Group philosophy, full time, having completed the Graduate
which was further developed by attending Programme. During this placement I was
a week long ‘Leading with the Unipart involved in supporting the sales team by
Way’ course. My major project was the organising industry events and collateral
full design, implementation and training and improving the data integrity of our
of an interim resource planning system CRM system Contact Anywhere. The
to be used from supervisors up to
If you would like to find out more about
biggest project I undertook was leading
opportunities at Unipart group visit
senior management, using the tools and and implementing the Unipart Way within
www.graduate.unipart.co.uk
techniques of the Unipart Way. our team. I had the full support of a mentor
GradJobs Magazine | Autumn 08
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