Sales and Marketing | Student Placement 2025/26

About Lubrizol

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing, and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Location and Type of Role

Location: Hazelwood, Derbyshire, UK
Job type: FTC 1 Year for the length of placement year, starting in Summer 2025
Type of role: Hybrid from Hazelwood site

What You Will Be Doing

• Provide support for customer visits, presentations, training, and commercial support for account managers.
• Involvement in the annual plan input to the commercial team for assigned accounts.
• Support the regional sales team to drive activity necessary to execute growth targets and achieve the annual sales plan.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as strategic marketing, R&D, sales, procurement, supply chain, and operations.
• Implement marketing plans to generate awareness and demand for the products.
• Provide timely technical services to sales and customers by working with the Technology deployment team.
• Assist with volume forecasts for the European region.
• Contribute to the development of market management information (product, pricing, promotion).
• Involve in product positioning activities in support of customers' business plans.
• Assist the Marketing group to develop market communications and promotional programs for the region.
• Actively collect information to build strategic account plans to grow customer business and market share.

Why Lubrizol?

Our products and technologies are in everyday items, from vehicles to shampoo, medicines, and clothing. The Lubrizol Corporation combines unique chemistry expertise, formulation, applications capabilities, and market insights to positively impact the lives of our customer's end users worldwide.

What You Will Need

• Studying towards a business-related degree including a year in industry, achieving a 2:1 or above.
• Able to handle multiple tasks and manage priorities while completing work within target dates.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office packages and related common business software.
• Keen interest in commercial aspects of business with enthusiasm for building collaborative relationships.

What We Can Offer You

• Competitive salary.
• Discretionary bonus.
• 33 days holiday (including 8 bank holidays).
• Competitive Pension Scheme.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Potential to support Final Year Project.
• Subsidised Sports and Social Club (Some Locations).
• Subsidised on-site restaurant facility (Some Locations).
• Free Car Parking.

Together, we are Lubrizol: Where science excels, and people make a difference. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers, and communities. We are talented people working together to solve problems and improve lives through science.

Lubrizol is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from a diverse range of applicants. All applicants will be considered entirely on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities. Our application process is straightforward: create a short profile and upload your CV and cover letter. Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK for the duration of the placement and have completed a minimum of two years of an undergraduate degree but not graduated before the start of the placement.

We recommend you apply as soon as possible, as we accept ongoing applications and will close this vacancy once we have enough applications.