Assistant Brand Manager Review

Friendly and young team, great office to work in, really enjoyed the work in the brand team and working with sales. THe placement time went by really quickly.

I was always asked what I thought, what I would do and the team listened to what I said. I took on a real and full role from another placement when I started and was really a part of the team.

My line manager was amazing, it was the first time she had managed anyone and I felt that we were a real team together. SHe shared her plans and asked for my contributions. She let me come along to presentations and asked for feedback, she gave me feedback on my presentations to the business. I had a development conversation and end of placement review with her and she supported me to apply for the graduate programme with Danone. I felt that I could ask her pretty much anything.

So busy, the time just flew by. At first it was hard to know how to do everything I needed to so it felt that it took ages but when I was settled I felt that I could get more done and was amazed and how much I could do in a day by the end. THere were a lot of meetings in the morning and especially at the beginning of the week to set us up and then review checks towards the end of the week. Between those times I set my time and tasks with my line manager.

I did enjoy working with my line manager although I felt that sometimes she could have given me more responsibility. I was doing a real job although she often wanted me to check things through with her which was great at the start although towards the end of my placment I don't think everything needed to go through her. I was given other projects where I was in complete control and these worked out well so I think a little more responsibility.

There was some training, not a lot, mostly I learned from my team and my line manager. I developed a lot of skills though in presentations and have done lots of presentations back at Uni which I don;t worry about and am much quicker at.

Friendly, fun, young. There is table tennis and table football and loads of yogurts to eat! There were a lot of placements and grads and we spent a lot of time together at work and outside of work.

My job was well set up although I think so because of my line manager and my team. We had a couple of social events in work like lunches, but most were arranged by us outside of work. It would have been good to have had more training sessions and to learn more about the other business units. We were asked for feedback a lot and I think some things have changed for next year.

There was some training, towards the end.

I would like to work at Danone. I will apply when I graduate for the first part of my career.

Really good, the placement and grads spent a lot of time together. What was nice was we were put into a Facebook group before we started and we all arranged to live together and near each other and it went from there.

London is really expensive. It was ok living in Clapham but going out was expensive.

Bars on the business park are good and our team often went there after work, generally to go out we went nearer Clapham.

Some things like volunteering and sports. There was a zipwire down from the office roof in the summer which was great fun.