P&G - Marketing or Consumer market knowledge

Procter & Gamble (Procter & Gamble | WikiJob) is a good company that make pretty much everything you can buy in the supermarket. You'll be getting a lot of freebie products from your job, which should be pretty interesting generally.

Graduate Jobs at P&G

Hours: P&G have moderately flexible working hours. You are hired to work 40 hours/week which in practice usually becomes about 50 to 70 hours/week.

Salary: Graduate training salaries start at between £25 - 27K. There are reasonably good benefits including company pension scheme and healthcare (but not dental) although there is no signing on bonus and no bonuses until you've worked for the company for at least five years.

Travel: Unlikely to be out of the office much during your first 2 - 3 years, and even after this.

Dresscode: Employees wear business casual for internal meetings and business wear for external meetings.

Career progression: P&G employs a team of people to plan out career moves within the company. Its important for you to promote
yourself with your manager to ensure your career path is being planned in the same way you have planned it.

Secondments: Secondments to European HQ's (e.g. Geneva) are
common after 2 - 5 years although not usually during graduate training.

Holiday: Graduates get about 25 days per year (differs slightly between 20 - 25 depending on areas of company) and one additional "comapny" day - everyone gets this off. If you end up working on a Saturday or Sunday (which you are likely to have to do at some point) you can claim back 1.5 holiday days in lieu of the 1 day worked - which is actually a great way to build up extra holiday/get paid more.

....I don't know exactly what you'd be doing working in marketing/consumer market knowledge. CMK - this sounds like you'd be analysing a lot of consumer surveys and finding out what extent products are known about/understood by the general public. What kind of people buy what, etc. Marketing would probably be deciding what marketing/sales techniques to use to sell certain products, using the information drawn from CMK as your guide....

If you find out more on this please do post it up here. P&G is a good place to work and plenty of 2.1 + quality grads work there, so it is (moderately) fun! If you get an interview here, don't forget to use Procter & Gamble Interview Questions | WikiJob to help you! Good luck!

Ed

Has anyone applied to, or is anyone working at Procter & Gamble? ..would be good to get some input from interviewees / current trainees...