We produce around a third of all poultry products eaten every day in the UK.
We're keen on hot cross buns. We make 30 million every year!
The total amount of pies made in a year would stretch from Accrington to the North Pole
We own more than 700 farms around the UK.
We employ more than 14,000 colleagues drawn from 36 different nationalities.
Our Graduate Scheme
We see our Graduates as our leaders of the future and invest into these programmes, and in you.
We focus on your skills and passion, not just your degree and education. Across our Finance and Engineering functions we have developed two impactful Graduate programmes where, as a Graduate, you will help us to solve problems, challenge the norms, share your insights, bring fresh perspectives and work in collaborative teams.
Our Graduate Scheme offers you:
Rotations
In the Finance Scheme you’ll rotate through a series of placements across 2 Sisters Food Group, these may be based at one site or multiple locations across the UK. In the Engineering Scheme you’ll rotate through a series of placements in our Poultry division but will be based solely at one of our production sites.
Your role
As well as getting lots of responsibility in your day-to-day role, we’ll help you explore the whole of the business, from visiting manufacturing sites, to collaborating with other functions.
Qualifications
We will fully support you to gain new skills, knowledge and competencies and will fund a qualification for you during your time on our Graduate Programme which will be linked to your role.
Development
You will be able to complete a number of our Core Skills inhouse programmes in the first year of the scheme. In the second year of the scheme you will be able to complete our LEAD Management development programme equipping you with the skills you need to become a future leader of the business.
Salary
Competitive salary starting at £27,000, with annual increments.
Support
You will be assigned a Line Manager and a mentor, be supported by our learning and development team and an external coach.
Benefits
You'll have access to a great range of employee benefits comprising of 33 days annual leave which includes bank holidays, flexible benefits which you can opt into which include a Cycle Scheme and Hapi benefits where you can access lots of discounts from leading retailers.
Upon completion of the scheme you will have two/three years’ experience in the industry with the opportunity to move into a permanent role on a competitive salary within 2sfg.
Eligibility criteria
- For our Engineering Graduate Scheme, and as part of our move to drive change, increase social mobility and diversity, we are changing our entry criteria for Engineering graduate roles. From 2023 you will no longer need a 2:1 degree classification to apply, a minimum 2.2 degree in Engineering will be required
- For our Finance Graduate Scheme, you will need a 2.1 minimum degree in any discipline
- For both schemes you will need to have graduated within the last 3 years
- You will need a real passion for all things food and Engineering/Finance!
Our Recruitment Process (Engineering Scheme)
- First Stage: Upon reviewing your CV and personal statement and if you are shortlisted, we will contact you and ask you to undertake a short video screening interview. This will be one-way whereby we send you some questions and you pre-record your responses.
- Second Stage: If you’re shortlisted from the video screening, we will contact you and ask you to undertake a pre-telephone screening interview.
- Third Stage: If you’re successful from the pre-telephone screening interview we’ll invite you to attend a site tour at the production site where the role will be based so you can view the environment which you will be working in.
- Fourth Stage: If you are comfortable with the environment of the production site, we will invite you to undertake some online assessments.
- Fifth and Final Stage: Upon reviewing the results of your online assessments, we invite the highest scoring candidates across all criteria to our assessment centres. If you are successful at the assessment centre, we will offer you a place on our Graduate Scheme which will commence in September of the same year.
- First Stage: Upon reviewing your CV and personal statement and if you are shortlisted, we will contact you and ask you to undertake a short video screening interview. This will be one-way whereby we send you some questions and you pre-record your responses.
- Second Stage: If you’re shortlisted from the video screening, we will contact you and ask you to undertake a pre-telephone screening interview.
- Third Stage: If you’re successful from the pre-telephone screening interview we’ll invite you to undertake some online assessments.
- Fourth and Final Stage: Upon reviewing the results of your online assessments, we invite the highest scoring candidates across all criteria to our assessment centres. If you are successful at the assessment centre, we will offer you a place on our Graduate Scheme which will commence in September of the same year.
Applications for our Graduate Programme open in October, assessment centres are in February/April and you’ll start in September.
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Footnote: We are very pleased to announce our accreditation as a CIMA Training and Development Premier Partner – recognising our support for CIMA students and members. This means that our performance management and learning and development processes have been benchmarked against a robust set of quality standards by CIMA.