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A graduate business programme offering rotational experience across e-commerce, buying, and quality assurance to develop commercial skills within a consumer goods company.
Are you a Business Studies graduate looking for a graduate role where you can gain broad commercial experience, take real responsibility, and build a long?term career within a fast-paced consumer goods business?
Join Ultimate Products’ 2026 Graduate Development Scheme and kick-start your career across a range of business-critical functions. This scheme is ideal for graduates who are curious about how businesses operate, enjoy problem-solving, and want exposure to multiple career pathways before specialising.
Why Join Ultimate Products?
We’re proud to be a Great Place to Work® accredited employer, and our graduates play a key role in shaping our future. You’ll join a supportive, ambitious environment where you’ll be trusted early on, encouraged to develop quickly, and supported with structured training and mentoring.
Our Graduate Development Scheme offers a hands-on, real-world introduction to the business, giving you exposure to live projects, senior stakeholders, and cross-functional teams from day one.
Business Pathways You Could Be Involved In
Depending on your interests, strengths, and business needs, graduates on this pathway may gain experience in areas such as:
E-Commerce– supporting online trading performance, analysing sales data, and working closely with internal teams and external partners
Buying– assisting with supplier relationships, trend analysis, range reviews and commercial decision-making
Quality Assurance & Product Quality Management– supporting product quality standards, supplier compliance and product testing processes to ensure products meet customer and regulatory expectations
A business degree develops a broad, transferable skillset that can be applied across a range of roles. Through the interview process and the scheme, we will identify the pathway best suited to you.
About You
We’re looking for graduates who are motivated, commercially aware and keen to learn. You don’t need detailed experience in a specific function – we’re more interested in your potential, mindset and enthusiasm for business.
You will ideally have:
A 2:1 degree or above in Business Studies or a related discipline
6-12 months’ work experience (part-time, full-time or placement)
Strong communication and teamwork skills
Good organisation and problem-solving ability
A proactive, curious approach and willingness to get stuck in
The ability to commute to our Oldham head office
What’s In It For You?
We Care About Your Progression
Structured training and a tailored development plan
Regular mentoring and performance reviews
Salary reviews and increased responsibility as you progress
Free external training courses from recognised providers
Save As You Earn share scheme
Salary sacrifice pension contribution of up to 10% (plus standard pension)
We Invest in Our People
Modern £1.6m state-of-the-art office in Oldham
Private BUPA medical and dental cover
Employee wellbeing sessions and 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
Community, Environmental and ESG committees
One fully paid charity day per year
Free minibus to and from the local tram stop
Prayer room and prayer?friendly working hours
3pm finish every Friday
Company football and netball teams, plus a book club
We Celebrate in Style
Annual company-funded Christmas parties
£250 contribution towards a wedding cake
Colleague of the Year awards
£250 retail credit when you buy your first home
How to apply
Apply directly through the company website. Clicking the link below will open the application page in a new window.
Location: Manchester, UK
Industry: Consumer Goods
Who are we? We’re designers. We're mathematicians. We're salespeople. We’re forward-thinkers and we’re passionate about what we do. Established in 1997, we provide a total end-to-end solution to over 300 world-class retailers by sourcing, developing and ultimately distributing a wide range of branded household products. Chances are, we’ll have had some involvement in something in your room right now, whether you’ve swept your floor with a Beldray mop, drank your brew from a Portobello mug or prepared a tasty stir-fry in a Salter wok; we’re devoted to providing the products that make your house an ultimate home. Where are we? You’ll find our lovingly branded household products in a number of high-street retailers, including B&M, Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Argos and TK Maxx, to name but a few. We are a truly global company, with major sourcing and general merchandising functions based in the Far East; our design and development offices are located in the UK, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Across 20 years’ experience in trading and building relationships, we’ve worked tirelessly to establish a reliable supply partner base across 12 different consumer product categories. What do we do? Our committed Buying teams work closely with our valued supply partners to source, develop and determine the winning lines that will be sold to major global retailers throughout the year. Our skilled, in-house Design team produces a wealth of high-quality packaging, surface pattern designs, marking material and style guides to assure that our brands are a recognisable household staple. Within Merchandising and Quality Assurance, our teams work diligently to deliver the best possible quality of product within an efficient timeline that meets any and all customer-specific requirements. If you're driven, hard-working and motivated, we want to hear from you. Visit upplc.com/careers to view our latest job vacancies.
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