Commercial Analyst Placement Review

- Staying up to date with development in the energy market, especially with wholesale energy.
- Updating weekly deliverables that are sent around the business.
- Researching and producing insight pieces in response to questions asked from around the business, e.g. 'what contracts are a different energy supplier providing'.
- Engaging with shareholders in meetings and providing them an overview of the energy supply market.

Sort of - there were periods where I had lots to do as other people were off work and I was covering for them, but there were also periods where there wasn't much to do and I had to find my own work to do which was frustrating.

On the technical side, I developed my PowerBI skills and some VBA, though these were both through my own efforts.
I developed my teamwork skills through experience working in a team, and had opportunities to develop my presentation skills as well. Some of these were in my role, and some were through the placement scheme innitiatives.

The placement has a good mentorship scheme were everyone is assigned a mentor - I personally found this useful and had regular meetings with mine to get a better idea as to how to deal with situations that came up.

Very positive company atmosphere, I should have tried to move around the business more as I was in a small team but the company had a very positive culture. Seemed to care about employees and support was always there when you reached out.

There were good parts - I had good moments in my role and the wider placement scheme events were enjoyable. However, I should have moved roles early on as at different points there wasn't much responsibility, even after I had tried to make sure there would be.

Yes