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Graduate Commercial Strategy Manager
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Graduate Commercial Strategy Manager
Location: Milton Keynes (Hybrid)
Team Commercial / Advanced & Specialty Solutions
Reporting To Commercial Director, UK
Kick-start your career at the heart of a global technology leader. We’re looking for a motivated, analytical recent graduate to join our UK Commercial team in a pivotal strategic role. This opportunity offers direct exposure to senior leaders and the chance to work closely with teams across Sales, Vendor Management, Finance, and Marketing. If you're a recent graduate looking to begin your career in a fast-moving, growth-focused environment where you can influence decision-making and make an impact from day one, this could be the perfect opportunity.
About The Role
As our Graduate Commercial Strategy Manager, you’ll help support and develop commercial strategies that drive profitable growth, improve performance, and strengthen our position in the market. You’ll act as an important link between the Commercial Director and the wider business - including Sales, Vendor Management, Finance, and Marketing. Your job is to help turn strategic ideas into clear commercial plans, using data and insight to highlight opportunities, spot risks, and drive business-critical decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development of commercial strategies and help translate them into clear plans and actions.
- Analyse data to identify growth opportunities across vendors, portfolios, and customer segments.
- Help drive improvements in revenue, gross profit, product mix, and overall commercial performance.
- Work with Finance to support accurate forecasting and ensure commercial plans are financially sound.
- Contribute to margin improvement through better pricing discipline, rebate optimisation, and vendor funding analysis.
- Collaborate with Vendor, Category, and Solutions teams to align business plans and provide insight for key meetings and reviews.
- Convert strategic priorities into actionable sales plays, dashboards, and insights that support Sales execution.
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What We’re Looking For
You don’t need commercial experience - we’ll teach you that. We do need someone who is:
- Degree-educated (Business, Finance, Economics, Data/Analytics or similar preferred)
- Highly analytical with strong attention to detail
- Confident working with data to produce meaningful insight
- Motivated to drive change and challenge thinking
- A strong communicator, able to simplify the complex
- Curious, ambitious and eager to learn
- Comfortable working across multiple teams and engaging with senior stakeholders
We Are Ingram Micro
Ingram Micro is a leading technology company for the global information technology ecosystem. With the ability to reach nearly 90% of the global population, we play a vital role in the worldwide IT sales channel, bringing products and services from technology manufacturers and cloud providers to business-to-business technology experts.
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Make an application to join the team! None of this is achievable without great people, with a complete customer focus. Our team is as much about our people as it is our customers and business partners. We want associates with a strong desire to succeed. We offer a competitive base, commission, market leading incentives programme and clear career development. You will receive full training on the products you will be specialising in, and you will have access to a world-leading catalogue of technology-based learning.
If you’re a recent graduate who’s looking for an opportunity to make an impact from day one, work with real data, and be part of a high-performing commercial team, apply now!
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