Graduate Trainee

**Job purpose**: The 18-month Graduate Trainee Programme is designed for recent graduates and applicants must have graduated within the past 12 months. The graduate trainee will gain broad experience in the Cluster Supply Organisation where business specialists, business experts, engineer specialists, engineers and product owners work together as a team. The agile methods support the team members in performing their functions by facilitating a rapid and flexible response to changing conditions and customer needs through an iterative approach and the continual development of new solutions. This approach is intended to bring about better products, higher quality, more efficient processes, and higher implementation speeds. The team works together to ensure that valuable functionalities are provided to customers and that existing products, processes and services are developed and improved in line with customer needs. To achieve this, the team members organise their own activities, working autonomously and with full accountability. To that end, they are granted responsibility for all processes and systems needed for the products, processes, and services for which they are accountable. Open communications among the team members ensure regular and timely feedback. This enables the team to adopt a "fail fast" approach - i.e. the rapid recognition and correction of mistakes, which permits a quick reaction to changing conditions and customer needs by means of iterative procedures. The role has both a technical and operational focus and acts in the capacity of a cell member. He / She has an agile and digital mind-set, and continually adapts it to changing requirements. He / She is deployed where his/her knowledge and experience are needed, and therefore demonstrates flexibility with regards assignments in various cells and chapters, even across cluster boundaries. **Key activities**: - Working in a cross-functional team to be able to perform all tasks required to deliver the relevant products, services, processes and systems - Product portfolio management and steering, implementation and ongoing development of one or more products, services, processes and/or systems across the entire life cycle in a team, taking quality standards into account - Preparing and implementing digital strategies, ensuring the core infrastructure of products, services, processes, and systems; full commitment to innovative technologies; establishment and expansion of the use of digital channels - Acquisition, ongoing development and transfer of operational / process-related/IT knowledge on assigned issues - Application and ongoing development of the necessary skills to set up new, future-ready digital architectures - Concept design and implementation of agile quality assurance and risk management - Customer and interface management, including needs analysis, advice and support for central functions and clusters with regard to assigned issues - Operation, support, and maintenance of infrastructure, including performant support for relevant systems, data updates, reporting and user authorisation management - Compliance with security standards and ensuring stable operations regarding products, services, processes and systems - Testing activities - Production and maintenance of documentation, including specifications and operational categories **Formal education**: - Recent graduates with not more than 1 year of professional work experience (excluding internships) - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field with GPA 3.5/5 & 3.2/4. **Specialist knowledge (work experience, further qualification)**: - Knowledge of programming languages and or some coding skills beneficial **Description of specifications with regards to work profiles** - Willingness to learn, be part of a dynamic team and make an impact - Proactive & self-initiated - Strong desire to learn - Ability to learn & adapt quickly, and work independently or as part of a team - Highly motivated to achieve results - Team player - Strong sense of responsibility & integrity - Client centric & service oriented - Ability to work under pressure & deliver high quality output - Meticulous - Good interpersonal skills - Strong communicator - Good verbal and written English communication skills