Sales Operations Undergraduate Review
at Honda Motor Europe
Placement (10 Months+)
Business Management
Bracknell
Review Submitted: June 2022
Overall Rating
4.1 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
5/5
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Overview of Role
4/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
3.8/5
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Company Culture
4/5
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Overall Experience
4/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
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.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
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.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
5/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
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.
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
4/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
4/5
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
4/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
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.
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?
5/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
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.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
4/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
4/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
4/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
3/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
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.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
4/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
4/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Honda Motor Europe
4/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Honda Motor Europe to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Honda Motor Europe
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.
