Commercial Graduate Rotational Program (Starting January 2026)
Graduate Rotational Program Summary:
AkzoNobel Graduate Rotational Program provides you with extraordinary opportunities. You'll gain first-hand experience across diverse assignments in different business functions for (three) 9-month rotations. This program offers a vast range of engaging learning experiences, including cross-functional assignments, mentoring, assessments, career planning, and networking. After each 9-month rotation, you will have the opportunity of relocating to another AkzoNobel site across the United States. Once the three rotations have been completed you will have the opportunity of continuous employment, ensuring readiness and performance have been met.
Key Responsibilities:
- Use of statistical analysis and appropriate business excellence project management processes to identify areas of significant improvement and develops plans to realize the benefits.
- Investigate root cause of process failures, develop solutions and implement improvement plans.
- Adopt successful ideas from the external world and designs improved systems to meet business needs.
- Uses data analysis and problem-solving methodologies.
- Deliver key projects to meet a range of business needs which involves defining requirements, preparing plans, allocating resources and project implementation in line with project management methods and techniques.
- Actively participates in continuous improvement projects and Identifies improvement opportunities.
- This will also include market mapping and framework development.
Required Qualifications:
- Recent college graduate: Bachelor or Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, or Engineering with an interest in Commercial Sales or Marketing
- Willing to learn & experience different functions/knowledge.
- Open & proactive to share and exchange.
- Excellent communication skills and inquisitive nature.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- High learning agility and high adaptability