Buyer (Undergraduate) Review

by MBDA

Rating

4.7/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Various activities from admin based work, such as; onboarding suppliers, organising meetings, and working with stakeholders, to much larger tasks with more responsibility such as, leading a procurement process known as a tender, working on negotiations with potential suppliers, receiving and marking suppliers bids.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I've learnt a lot in my placement, notable developing crucial technical skills like negotiation and contractual knowledge


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • I was given a lot of responsibility, I have been running several project independently of fairly significant value


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • I had a lot of guidance, the team often ran specific learning workshops to go over key skills and constantly stepped up my workload to continue my development


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • A very relaxed and ethical climate, everyone is very friendly and puts you before your work


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I've really enjoyed my placement, to the point where I am very keen to come back and have been exploring opportunities to complete a graduate scheme


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 5/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at MBDA
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend MBDA to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to MBDA
  • No question is a silly question, ask as many as you can


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Procurement

London

June 2023


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