Placement Student - Sales Operations Coordinator

Job Description

Our culture believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL. We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work with today’s most innovative thinkers to solve the world’s toughest problems.

We believe in adaptability for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce. That’s what #LifeAtCummins is all about.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Sales Operations Coordinator Placement Student to join our team specializing in Sales for our Distribution Business segment in UK, Wellingborough. During your placement with us, you will learn how a major global organization operates, gaining the tools and exposure you will need to become an expert in the industry and power your potential! This role is available to candidates who qualify for a placement year and will commence Summer of 2026.

External Qualifications and Competencies

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Discovers, interprets, and communicates qualitative and quantitative data; determines conclusions relying on knowledge of business or functional frameworks; simultaneously applies statistics, data validity, data visualization, and problem-solving approaches to effectively extract meaningful patterns and business insights; presents conclusions and outcomes that enable data driven business decisions.

• Manages the project schedule using the recommended project management tools and processes to drive completion within the agreed timeline.

• Incorporates an understanding of the customers’ perspective on our products and sales efforts to develop sales content that improves our ability to meet their needs and increase revenue.

• Supports the review of user-entered data hosted on the systems by executing clearly defined procedures.

• Runs repetitive and well documented tasks on systems and tools (e.g., salesforce, WWSPS, BMS, Portal) and supports the review of user-entered data hosted on the systems by executing clearly defined procedures.

• Supports internal sales analyses (e.g., variances, projections, costing, bundling) where the tasks are well documented and repetitive.

Additional Responsibilities Unique to this Position

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

• Studying towards a degree in Economics/Finance, business management or administration.

• Interest in data analysis; Power BI/ excel / CRM knowledge a plus.

• Communicates effectively and collaborates.

• Self-development and Action oriented; adapts to target audience.

About Us

Cummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, colour, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.