Business Graduate Scheme

Business Graduate Scheme

Graduate Scheme – Business Studies Graduates (2026 Intake)

Are you a Business Studies graduate looking for a graduate role where you can gain broad commercial experience, take real responsibility, and build a long?term career within a fast?paced consumer goods business?

Join Ultimate Products’ 2026 Graduate Development Scheme and kick?start your career across a range of business?critical functions. This scheme is ideal for graduates who are curious about how businesses operate, enjoy problem?solving, and want exposure to multiple career pathways before specialising.

Why Join Ultimate Products?

We’re proud to be a Great Place to Work® accredited employer, and our graduates play a key role in shaping our future. You’ll join a supportive, ambitious environment where you’ll be trusted early on, encouraged to develop quickly, and supported with structured training and mentoring.

Our Graduate Development Scheme offers a hands?on, real?world introduction to the business, giving you exposure to live projects, senior stakeholders, and cross?functional teams from day one.

Business Pathways You Could Be Involved In

Depending on your interests, strengths, and business needs, graduates on this pathway may gain experience in areas such as:

E?Commerce– supporting online trading performance, analysing sales data, and working closely with internal teams and external partners

Supply Chain & Order Management– supporting the end?to?end supply chain, overseeing purchase orders, stock flow and supplier coordination to help ensure product availability

Buying– assisting with supplier relationships, trend analysis, range reviews and commercial decision?making

Quality Assurance & Product Quality Management– supporting product quality standards, supplier compliance and product testing processes to ensure products meet customer and regulatory expectations

 

A business degree develops a broad, transferable skillset that can be applied across a range of roles. Through the interview process and the scheme, we will identify the pathway best suited to you.

About You

We’re looking for graduates who are motivated, commercially aware and keen to learn. You don’t need detailed experience in a specific function – we’re more interested in your potential, mindset and enthusiasm for business.

You will ideally have:

  • A 2:1 degree or above in Business Studies or a related discipline
  • 6-12 months’ work experience (part?time, full?time or placement)
  • Strong communication and teamwork skills
  • Good organisation and problem?solving ability
  • A proactive, curious approach and willingness to get stuck in
  • The ability to commute to our Oldham head office

What’s In It For You?

We Care About Your Progression

  • Structured training and a tailored development plan
  • Regular mentoring and performance reviews
  • Salary reviews and increased responsibility as you progress
  • Free external training courses from recognised providers
  • Save As You Earn share scheme
  • Salary sacrifice pension contribution of up to 10% (plus standard pension)

We Invest in Our People

  • Modern £1.6m state?of?the?art office in Oldham
  • Private BUPA medical and dental cover
  • Employee wellbeing sessions and 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
  • Community, Environmental and ESG committees
  • One fully paid charity day per year
  • Free minibus to and from the local tram stop
  • Prayer room and prayer?friendly working hours
  • 3pm finish every Friday
  • Company football and netball teams, plus a book club

We Celebrate in Style

  • Annual company?funded Christmas parties
  • £250 contribution towards a wedding cake
  • Colleague of the Year awards
  • £250 retail credit when you buy your first home

 

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