Our Programme
The Enterprise Management Training Scheme
If you’ve ever dreamed of running your own company, then you’ve come to the right place.
On the Enterprise Management Training Scheme, you’ll join one of our branches and learn all the business skills you need to run it yourself. This gives you the chance to develop skills in all areas, from sales and marketing to customer service and finance, so it really is a general management scheme.
After an initial classroom-based orientation session, you’ll be assigned to a branch office for the hands-on business training, which includes:
- Management skills: leadership, training, mentoring, people skills and soft skills, and looking at the big picture.
- Business management: cost control, profits, growth, account management, employee development, and administrative skills.
- Marketing: how to gain new customers both retail and corporate, how to handle dealerships, and run bodyshop accounts.
- Sales: how to increase revenue by generating more sales.
- Customer service: taking reservations, handling customer enquiries, problem solving and delivering cars to customers.
- Fleet control: how to handle repairs, and getting the right number and type of cars in your fleet.
There’s also the opportunity to specialise if you find an area of the business you’re particularly interested in, for example HR, Marketing or Finance, to name just a few.
Career progression
You’ll start off as a Management Trainee with a competitive income, assigned to a branch to learn all about the business. Within as little as eight to twelve months you’ll move up to a Management Assistant, and then in your next year you can be promoted to Assistant Manager. From then on you’ll also receive a percentage of the profits generated by your branch, which means you could be doubling or tripling your salary within just a few years.
Throughout the scheme, there’s a series of carefully monitored tests and evaluations, after which you’ll receive pay increases, rewards, and more opportunities for promotion. You’ll almost certainly be a Branch Manager within just two years of starting, and after that it’s up to you how fast you move – there’s Area Manager, City Manager, General Manager and then… you take over the world. Well, we are a global company after all.
Benefits
Rest assured we reward your hard work handsomely. Financially speaking we offer a pension plan, life assurance and private medical assurance. Then there's a range of other rewards such as the service award programme, income protection, employee referral bonuses, recognition awards, company sponsored events and the international language programme.
