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IT Scheme

This Scheme is now CLOSED for our 2008 intake.

There are few areas of our business that touch every aspect of what we do - from web to warehouse, from cache to cash management and from chat room to board room.  Your career with British Sugar IT can place you at the heart of what we do.  Put simply, IT Transforms. 

The emphasis is on your development through delivering business benefits. The scheme offered through British Sugar is not your standard graduate offering. It is about doing a job, which makes a difference to our business and develops your skills.

In addition to real work, from the start you will develop skills which will enable you to take business ideas and change requirements from initial concept, through design, build and final delivery into our business. During your first few months with us you will be given training on the most appropriate development tools and processes. Business skills are equally important to us and we will provide you with the relevant knowledge and support to understand our business.

We expect you to be academically well qualified, but know that you are likely to need time to get to know us and what we do. You will start by taking a development support role in our Applications Support team. Experience with a series of applications and issues will see you addressing real business problems, meeting people from different disciplines and gaining exposure to a range of different processes. So when you come to analyse data and processes for application development, you can base your interpretations and suggestions on business realities and first-hand knowledge of practical issues. This will then form the next stage on your career route, developing changes to existing applications or creating new applications.

People who join us will possess a blend of aptitude, skill and importantly, the right cultural fit with British Sugar to ensure you can develop quickly and take the level of responsibility required.

Benefits

The benefits of a career with British Sugar are an appealing mix of the professional and the financial:

  • Salary - c £20,000, reviewed in line with successful performance
  • Technical training
  • Formal and informal mentoring scheme
  • Opportunity for cross-functional moves
  • Company pension scheme
  • 21 days’ holiday in first year rising to 26 in subsequent years plus 8 statutory days’ holiday
  • Early responsibility, for example being recognised as a technical expert for specific applications.