AkzoNobel Decorative Paints delivers Tomorrow’s Answers Today™ for customers around the world. With world class brands and award winning products, including Dulux, Cuprinol, Glidden, Hammerite, Polyfilla and Sikkens, our business is the ideal environment in which high potential graduates can use their talents and develop an outstanding career.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, we are a Fortune 500 company and are consistently ranked as one of the leaders on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Recognised in the Guardian’s UK 300 survey as a top graduate employer, we have operations in more than 80 countries and employ more than 55,000 people who are committed to excellence and delivering Tomorrow’s Answers Today™.
Your development is as important to AkzoNobel as it is to you. We have designed a quality development programme for high potential university graduates providing you with the training, and where appropriate, the opportunity to gain external qualifications. From day one you’ll be fully integrated into the business and working on real-life company issues –and provided with the training, support and challenging experiences that will enable you to develop into a business leader of the future. Supported by a mentor, buddy and graduate network scheme, you’ll enjoy five training modules that have been created to develop your competences and business skills within your first two years of joining us. These will provide you with a broad understanding of the business, the leadership skills and commercial awareness to challenge the norm as well as a network of contacts throughout the company.
We want tomorrow’s leaders – the next generation of high-fliers. If you’ve got talent, ambition and determination, AkzoNobel can offer you a career that both challenges and rewards whilst encouraging an entrepreneurial approach to business.
We offer Graduate, Industrial Placement and Summer Internship opportunities in:
- Customer Business Development/Sales
- Engineering for Manufacturing
- Finance
- HR
- IT
- Marketing
- Purchasing
- R&D
- Supply Chain
As of 2012, to be considered for our graduate programmes you will need 300 UCAS points (which equates to 3B's at 'A'level) and a minimum 2:1 degree from a range of disciplines (please see our website for details).
For more information on our graduate programmes and work experience opportunities as well as to see specific degree requirements please visit our at www.akzonobel.com/careers