Business Apprentice - Trade Compliance

Job Description:
Business Apprentice (Trade Compliance)

Leonardo offers a range of Apprenticeships from 2-4yrs. across a variety of STEM and business routes, offering paid training, coupled with on the job learning that enables you to gain practical skills, experience and knowledge that sets up the best start to your career.

As you would expect from a globally renowned Company, we offer competitive entry salaries and fully support your academic learning through to qualifications, so there is no need to get into debt. We support helping you settle into your new location ensuring you are familiar with the team and have a warm welcome from day 1. There is a member of our Apprentice team at each site, helping you progress, ensuring your study time is protected, enabling access to digital learning as well as opportunities to get involved with the local community and STEM projects, enhance many aspects of each programme.

Leonardo’s two-year Trade Compliance Business Apprenticeship scheme provides a variety of experiences through placements in business-related disciplines, working on real projects alongside specialists in the world of business. You will rotate around our trade compliance areas gaining experience of the different work/projects specific to your department in Edinburgh.

This vacancy offers positions in our trade compliance teams.

During each placement, you will be working within cutting-edge facilities, learning how the various business areas operate and collaborate together to support projects, discovering how projects are run, managed and delivered, and having opportunities to liaise with customers and suppliers.

We need people who not only understand the importance of fulfilling the needs of our Customers and company business objectives, but who are also ready to embrace an ethos of continuous improvement and personal development through committing to a structured 2-year learning programme. At the end of the programme, you will emerge as a highly qualified member of your team equipped to contribute actively to the success of a variety of world leading projects.

During your apprenticeship, you will study with one of our academic partners to complete a Business Level 3 Apprenticeship
. You will achieve this qualification through a combination of day release plus experience in the workplace.

Through rotational placements you will gather real work evidence such as reflective accounts which describe day-to-day tasks you have completed and highlight the key business competencies demonstrated. You will gather this evidence, which demonstrates your development into a well‑rounded business person through on‑job training, gaining the essential practical skills needed to succeed.

Following completion placements, you will enter a final placement, increasingly focusing on one particular discipline. This targeted learning allows you to build on your skills and knowledge and to develop into a valuable member of the department, and will provide you with the final pieces of evidence required to move into the assessment phase and complete your Apprenticeship.

You will also work towards an SVQ in Business Management which relates to your on‑site experience and an HNC in Business at Edinburgh College.

2 Higher Grades (or equivalent) Mandatory: (A-C) Mathematics OR (A-C) English

AND Mandatory: (A-C) Business subject (examples; Business Studies, Project/Business Management, Finance, Accounts etc.) AND

Mandatory:
English and Maths Standard Grades (1-3) / National 5 (A-C)

The starting salary for this role is £21,000

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit:

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