Sales Operations Undergraduate Review

Collecting and consolidating distributor data and presenting it to the team and often senior management and Japanese colleagues. The data collected includes wholesales and registration data, the aging of distributor network units on stock and Cafe (emissions target) data.

My presenting skills have improved considerably due to regularly presenting my own data in meetings with senior management and Japanese colleagues. I have also greatly improved my excel and my data analysis skills along with my understanding of how a team works in a global organisation.

I was given the responsibility to collect, consolidate and present my own data with limited monitoring from my line manager. I was also tasked with being the main point of contact for the distributors, sorting out some of their issues and regularly requesting data and information from them.

I received a lot of support in the beginning as a lot of my work is systematic and requires a specific way of doing the task to ensure accuracy. I was given this support to gain confidence in these methods and then the responsibility to carry this out but whenever I needed help, it was always available.

The culture at Honda is always present, it is a happy welcoming place and the people are much the same. It is a Japanese orientated culture and that is clear in everyday tasks and work.

I enjoyed the responsibility that I was given to be a significant part of the team where the work in meaningful and important to the functioning of the department and the company as a whole. I also enjoyed the experience of working in this team and learning the dynamics of a team in a corporation.

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Go for it, the work is important to the business and the experience that you gain from the experience really helped me to understand my future career plans.