• About The Role

  • Charge up your career

    It takes courage to challenge the ordinary. We're looking for graduates who've got the curiosity, ambition and ability to charge up their career and to help drive change at Volkswagen Group UK.

    With training and support to stretch your skills, take responsibility and explore your interests, our graduate programme is a great launchpad for your career.  Life here is far from ordinary, it's full of unexpected challenges, opportunities and fantastic rewards.

    Our two-year structured scheme gives you all the support and development you need to help reshape the way the world moves. You’ll enjoy a range of placements to develop your skills, share your ideas and be a valued member of each team.

    On this graduate programme, you'll rotate across our Product Planning teams, helping shape the vehicles, offers and strategies behind some of the world's most desirable automotive brands. From future product decisions to sales performance and market trends, you'll gain valuable experience at the heart of our commercial business.

    Product: Help shape the future of our vehicle range. You'll analyse customer and market trends, support decisions on model line-ups, specifications and pricing, and contribute to product launches and lifecycles that thousands of customers will love across the UK.

    Tactical: Turn strategy into results. You'll help develop and evaluate a range of competitive incentive campaigns that drive customer demand, support sales performance and deliver commercial success for all of our brands.

    Sales Planning & Supply: Join the team that keeps our business moving. You'll support sales planning, forecasting and supply management, ensuring the right vehicles are available at the right time. Working with international factory colleagues, you'll manage logistics planning and enhance data visibility to power Brand decisions.

    What do you need?

    We're looking for people with curiosity and drive to succeed and who seek out opportunities to learn, develop and stretch themselves. If you share that desire and want to be a part of our success, you're a good match.

    You'll need to hold or be working towards a degree in any discipline. We are particularly keen to receive applications from students with a passion for interpreting complex information and communicating trends and outcomes to multiple stakeholders.

    We believe all employees should have a good work/life balance and wouldn't want you to spend a large amount of time commuting, so we require our graduates to be based within a reasonable distance from our Milton Keynes head office. You'll also need to have the right to work in the UK.

    What's in it for you?

    As a Graduate, you'll start on a £31,800 salary. You'll also receive 27 days' holiday – plus bank holidays – access to our car schemes,  pension scheme, a range of flexible benefits, employee well-being support, an on-site restaurant, cycle to work scheme and shopping/entertainment discounts.

    What's the assessment process?

    Our graduate recruitment process is designed to enable you to show us your true abilities. Once you've hit the apply button, you'll be asked to complete numerical and situational judgement tests. If you successfully complete these, we'll invite you to complete an online video interview so that we have a chance to get to know you.

    The final step in the journey would be for you to attend a face-to-face assessment centre in early 2027, where you will take part in a range of activities based on real-life tasks. You'll also have a chance to meet some of our managers and the current graduate cohort.

    Successful candidates will be offered a place soon after the assessment centre and will join us in September 2027.

    If you’re ready to charge up your career, apply now.

    To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage the application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications. 

  • About Us

  • We’re driven by difference. With six big brands under one roof – each with its own history, designs and innovations – we’ve created some of the world’s most iconic vehicles, from luxury sports cars to family camper vans. Here, you’ll discover opportunities, explore ideas and tackle challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.

    It takes a range of teams to make the Group successful. We all share the same aim: to deliver sustainable mobility for generations to come, while keeping the customer and their changing demands at the heart of everything we do.

    There’s never been a more exciting time to join our industry as it undergoes the biggest transformation for over 100 years. With digitalisation, electrification and driverless mobility all coming to the market, we’re actively looking for people with new skills, knowledge, and outlooks. A brave new world demands brave, new, diverse people; so whatever your background, we would love to hear from you.  We know that different perspectives and thought processes are vital as our industry goes through an exciting period of change.

Our rewards and benefits

Join us and you’ll find a very different type of organisation. So, we’ll reward you with an attractive range of benefits, and we’ll recognise your personal commitments beyond work by protecting your wellbeing. We’ll also give you all the support and learning opportunities you need to develop a successful career with us.

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Annual leave

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Discretionary bonus

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Enhanced pension contributions

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Car schemes for you and your family

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Life assurance

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Private medical insurance*

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Healthcare cash plans*

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Mental wellbeing support

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Occupational health provision

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Paid volunteering days

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Sick pay at full rate of pay

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Income protection insurance

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Fuel card*

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Onsite restaurant, EV charging, parking and car wash

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Employee discounts portal

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Reduced ticket prices

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Employee referral scheme

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Additional wellbeing support

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Flexible financial security benefits

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Additional flexible benefits

* Please note that some benefits will differ by grade.

What inclusion means to us

What inclusion means to us

We want everyone at Volkswagen Group UK to feel included. Why? Because unique voices and perspectives are vital for our future. And we know that enabling diverse teams to thrive, be creative, and be heard, leads to better business outcomes. That’s why we run various programmes to promote a diverse, inclusive and non-discriminatory culture. And we’re proud of earning Inclusive Employers’ Gold accreditation in 2024. But there’s always more to do.

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Meet some of the team

Jamie, Direct Sales Operations and Performance Executive

I originally started as an undergraduate on the Audi product planning and supply team in 2021. This helped me develop skills such as public speaking. It was very daunting to me, but with some mentoring, I eventually spoke to 300 students at a school, which was a massive personal achievement. My aspiration following the graduate scheme is to specialise in a certain area and own it as an expert, years down the line. With new models and technologies constantly coming, it is really exciting to be a part of driving the business in the right direction.

Jamie, Direct Sales Operations and Performance Executive

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Product Planning Graduate Programme 2027

Volkswagen Group UK - Milton Keynes
Reference number: 691
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