Asset Risk Placement Programme

About The Role

As a Placement Data Analyst, you’ll be joining the Asset Risk department and gain hands-on experience in data, analytics, and insight within a commercial environment. Asset Risk is responsible for customer pricing decisions and forecasting key financial risks, including Residual Value, SMR, Insurance, and Economic Capital.

You’ll be part of our Data Analytics & Insights team, helping to ensure our data is reliable, trusted, and interconnected. You’ll support day-to-day operations, contribute to projects, and develop the skills to turn complex data into stories that give stakeholders clarity and confidence in their decisions.

During your placement you will:

• Deliver and present reports, dashboards, and insights, collaborating with colleagues to transform data into clear, impactful narratives and decisions.
• Learn and develop your skills in data analytics and emerging AI technologies, gaining hands-on experience with tools such as Snowflake (SQL & Python), Power BI, Excel and ChatGPT, Copilot, and Cortex.
• Support the operational elements of our Data Governance Framework, helping monitor and maintain data quality.
• Assist in managing datasets that underpin key Asset Risk activities, learning how these drive decisions across the department.
• Work alongside experienced analysts and managers, receiving mentorship, training, and opportunities to develop both your technical and professional skills.

Our 12-Month Placement Programme

Our programme is built on three key pillars: Making an Impact, Personal Development, and the Project.

Making an Impact

Get involved in meaningful work that adds real value from day one. You’ll support your team’s goals and help deliver work that makes a difference – for your team, and for the people we do it all for: our customers.

Personal Development

Build your confidence and skills through mentoring, learning sessions and events – all designed to support your growth and goals.

The Project

Work with other students to lead a project that creates real, positive impact. Our programmes go above and beyond just the day job. You’ll gain valuable experience in your chosen business area while also having the space and opportunity to challenge yourself and develop your skills.

About You

• Curious and eager to learn—you’re keen to understand how data drives business decisions.
• Analytical—you enjoy problem-solving and working with numbers.
• You’re keen to communicate and share your work through written and verbal communication, including presentations.
• Adaptable—you’re comfortable with change and open to trying new approaches.
• A proactive team player—collaborative, supportive, and motivated.
• Has some exposure to data through coursework, internships, or work experience.
• Keen to develop and build on their experience using these tools—SQL, Python, or visualisation tools (Power BI, Tableau).

Who You’ll Be Working With

You will collaborate with colleagues across Asset Risk—building relationships, learning how data connects across the business, and contributing to insights that help shape strategic decisions.

Minimum Criteria

• Studying in the second year of your degree that includes a year in industry, and eager to start a placement in July 2027.
• Excited to join us in our London office at least three days a week.
• Confidence with Excel and an interest in developing data skills.
• An enthusiasm for data, analytics, and learning new tools and techniques that you may have used in your coursework.

What You’ll Gain

• Practical experience working on live projects in a commercial environment.
• The chance to develop technical skills with modern data tools.
• Mentorship and coaching from experienced data professionals.
• A deeper understanding of data governance, forecasting, and business insight.
• Skills and confidence to take back into your final years of study and beyond.

Motability Operations is a Disability Confident Leader

As a Disability Confident Leader, any applicant considered to have a disability who meets the minimum criteria as set out in the role profile, will be offered an interview. We also have a responsibility to actively seek out and attract disabled candidates by providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. This involves flexibility and adjusting as required when assessing candidates to ensure those with a disability have the best possible chance of demonstrating their suitability for the job.

Recruitment Stages

1) Application Stage

• Submit your CV.
• Response to four questions.

2) Video Assessment

• One way video assessment.
• You will answer 5 questions by video response.
• You are given 6 days to complete your video assessment from when you receive your invitation.

3) Virtual Interview

You will meet with one of our Early Careers Recruitment team. These interviews aim to take place between 28th to 29th November 2026.

4) Assessment Centre

You will be invited to attend a final stage assessment centre, which typically involves an interview with the two assessors and an activity. The assessment centre is a whole day with us in our Bristol office. The assessment centre for this role is 24th November 2026.

If you are successful at the Assessment Centre stage, you will be offered the role to begin Monday 5th July 2027.

About The Company

About Us

We’re the company behind the Motability Scheme. We exist to deliver smart, sustainable solutions that improve our customers’ mobility in a fast-changing world. We’re the UK’s largest car leasing company and we help over 900,000 people get on the road. We employ over 1800 people, across London, Bristol, Edinburgh, and Coalville. We know our people are key to our success, so we aim to create an environment that allows our employees to flourish. We look for highly motivated people with a combination of commercial sense and real enthusiasm to meet our customers' needs.

What We Do

We lease a wide range of tailored mobility solutions to people who receive one of the Government’s qualifying mobility allowances. Our customers choose a car, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV), scooter or powered wheelchair that best suits their needs. We take care of their insurance, breakdown, servicing and more, as part of our worry-free package. At the end of the lease, our customers can exchange their vehicle for a brand-new model. Each year we sell and move around 200,000 cars. This makes us the largest supplier of single-source vehicles back into the used car market. The Scheme has been providing affordable, all-inclusive motoring for over 45 years. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, with an independent customer satisfaction rating of 9.4 out of 10. Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day: We find solutions, We drive change, We care.

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.