AkzoNobel

AkzoNobel Decorative Paints delivers Tomorrow’s Answers Today™ for customers around the world. With world class brands and award winning products, our business is the ideal environment in which high potential graduates can develop an outstanding career.

We are more than just the largest global paints and coatings company and a major producer of speciality chemicals. We supply industries worldwide with quality ingredients for life’s essentials. We think about the future, but act in the present.

We’re passionate about developing sustainable answers for our customers. Headquartered in the Netherlands , we are a Fortune 500 company. Recognised in the Guardian’s UK 300 survey as a top graduate employer, we have operations in more than 80 countries and employ more than 55,000 people who are delivering Tomorrow’s Answers Today™.

Our Decorative Paints division is the world leader in decorative coatings with some of the best-known brands in the business – Dulux, Cuprinol, Glidden, Hammerite, Polycell and Sikkens. Our campaign to bring the regenerative power of colour to the world has been recognised by the Marketing Society’s Awards for Excellence.

We don’t just bring colour to the world – our focus on delivering Tomorrow’s Answers Today™ drives innovation within our business and both Cuprinol and Dulux have won gold awards in DIY Week’s Product of the Year Awards.

AkzoNobel is committed to sustainability – we have achieved the Carbon Trust standard across the total business and ISO 14001 Environmental Management certification across all sites. Consistently in the top 3 of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the past 6 years, we have being recognised by the British Coatings Federation with the recent Coatings Care award after judges recognised our 'thoughtful' and 'consistent' approach to sustainability marketing. We work closely with Forum for the Future, the leading Sustainability NGO, to ensure our plans are stretching and focused.

Your development is as important to AkzoNobel as it is to you. We have designed a high quality development programme which delivers extensive training and, where appropriate, the opportunity to gain external qualifications.

From day one you’ll be fully integrated into the business and working on real-life company issues that will provide challenging experiences to enable you to develop into a business leader of the future.

Supported by a mentor, buddy and graduate network scheme, you will enjoy five training modules that will develop your competencies and business skills within our first two years of joining us. These will provide you with a broad understanding of the business, the leadership skills and commercial awareness to challenge the norm as well as a network of contacts throughout the company.

As of 2012, to be considered for our graduate programmes you will need 300 UCAS points (which equates to 3B's at 'A'level) and a minimum 2:1 degree from a range of disciplines (please see our website for details).

We have opportunities in:

• Research & Development
• Engineering for Manufacturing
• Supply Chain.

As well as:

• Customer Business Development/Sales
• Marketing
• Finance
• Human Resources
• Information Technology
• Purchasing.