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Graduate Opportunities 2019 Be a part of something bigger Careers Brochure 2019 2 2019 Contents About us Opportunities (cont.) We are THG 6 Our marketing graduates 25 Current locations 7 Trading and PR 26 Timeline 8 Buying and merchandising 27 THG ecosystem 10 Our Finance Scheme 28 Graduate opportunities 11 Our finance graduates 29 Our culture 12 Operations, supply chain and logistics 30 THG Academy 13 THG Studios 32 Studio opportunities 33 Opportunities Questions Technology 14 Tech opportunities 15 FAQs 34 Meet our tech graduates 16 Notes 36 Meet our tech interns 17 Our Accelerarator Programme 18 Our Accelerarator graduates 20 THG Ingenuity 21 This is Ingenuity 22 Ingenuity opportunities 23 Marketing 24 5 ABOUT US ABOUT US We are THG Current locations We are one of the world’s leading online beauty and wellbeing retailers, home to premium brands such as lookfantastic®, Glossybox, ESPA and Myprotein™ – all powered by our industry-leading and award-winning technology platform, THG Ingenuity. 3 1 2 4 We’re a global company and our people Powerhouse, creating 2,000 new jobs in reflect that. Our 4,500-plus employees Manchester in 2018 and aiming to create represent 66 nationalities and work in offices even more over the next few years with the located in 11 cities around the world. We’re opening of THQ – our new headquarters also proud to be a part of the Northern at Manchester Airport. AREA ONE AREA TWO AREA THREE AREA FOUR UK EU USA ROW Manchester Berlin, Germany Arizona Dehli, India Northwich Lisbon, Portugal Louisville, Kentucky Dubai, UAE London Lviv, Ukraine Logan/Lindon,Utah Hong Kong Farnham Wroclaw, Poland New York City Japan Frome Stockholm, Sweden San Antonio, Texas Melbourne, Australia Macclesfield Los Angeles Sydney, Australia Leeds New Orleans Singapore Warrington South Korea Taiwan 6 Graduate Opportunities 2019 7 ABOUT US Timeline 2004: 2008: 2009: 2010: The Hut Group The Hut Group The Hut Group tops The The Hut Group is founded by acquires Zavvi. Sunday Times Hiscox Tech acquires Mybag Matt Moulding Track 100 League Table. and Lookfantastic®. & John Gallemore. 2014: 2013: 2012: 2011: The Hut Group The Hut Group acquires The Hut Group The Hut Group opens acquires Preloved. the business ProBikeKit. acquires Myprotein™. Omega, a 1m sq.ft. logistics and manufacturing facility. 2015: 2016:: 2017: 2018: The Hut Group tops the IdealFit, idealShape and The Hut Group rebrands as THG THG opens an 800,000 Sunday Times Profit Track Hale Country Club & Spa and acquires six brands including sq.ft. fulfilment and 100 league table again. acquired by The Hut Group. Illamasqua and Glossybox. manufacturing facility in Poland. 2019: 2018: 2018: THG celebrates THG wins International Growth THG Ingenuity its 15th birthday. Retailer of the Year award and is born. the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. THG donates £700,000 to charity. 8 Graduate Opportunities 2019 9 ABOUT US Ecosystem Graduate opportunities As we grow, we need a team of ambitious, hard-working and innovative people to grow with us. Internships Tech opportunities We offer three, six and twelve-month We offer tech graduate roles in: software internships in software engineering, engineering, front-end engineering, data data science, user experience and data science, data engineering, UX research, engineering. We also offer 12-month UX design, project management, product internships in other areas which are management, business intelligence, allocated each year based on business engineering, database administration needs. (DBA), network engineering, virtualisation engineering, information security, SOC Graduate opportunities analysis and pen testing. We offer commercial graduate roles in: operations, manufacturing, business If you’re interested in applying for development, marketing, merchandising, one of our graduate roles, please buying, trading, supply chain and logistics, apply online at www.thg.com/careers planning, new product development, or register your interest by scanning procurement, finance and PR. the code above. 10 Graduate Opportunities 2019 11 ABOUT US ABOUT US WE’RE PASSIONATE Our culture ABOUT OUR PEOPLE We hired more than 230 graduates in 2018 from nearly 50 different THG Academy is our inhouse Learning & Development team. They aim universities across the world, and they all bring something different to inspire, motivate and develop our staff by delivering excellent training to the table. Our graduates work together, share their ideas and learn and providing valuable learning opportunities. from each other, no matter which team or division they are in. Staff discounts Bonus review Subsidised on our brands every six months onsite café Discounted gym Access to inhouse Onsite physio membership at Hale Learning & and barber Country Club & Spa Development training Opportunity to Staff saver Staff discounts on complete professional scheme public transport qualifications We want you to reach your potential Whether you’re a graduate software engineer The Academy has created a bespoke The sessions really gave me and we’ll do everything we can to or a marketing executive, you’ll play an onboarding programme for all THG “ help you get there. We’ll give you the important role in your team from the graduates which involves professional a sense of my own personality freedom to manage your own professional moment you join. You’ll learn from and skills workshops, training sessions and in the workplace which I wasn’t development, as well as the tools, advice work alongside industry experts, advancing career counselling. The programme acutely aware of before. and support you need to succeed. your understanding of a business area aims to support our graduates during ” and eventually progressing within THG. their introduction to the world of work. 12 Graduate Opportunities 2019 13 OPPORTUNITIES OPPORTUNITIES Technology Tech opportunities THG Ingenuity, our unique technology platform, isn’t just a product. It Our tech division is led by world-class technologists who have built ground- drives all our brands. From hosting to logistics, we power our websites and breaking technology and pioneered projects all over the world. Our graduates our warehouses through efficient and scalable technology which has been work alongside our tech experts, finding solutions to challenging problems developed inhouse. and having a real impact from the start of their career. 29 75 23 We have graduate opportunities available in: data centres support different global payment methods our websites with courier services are used to Software Engineering (front-end, Data Science & Engineering: back-end and full stack): Our people work together to build world-class hardware are integrated into process customer Our software engineers are an integral a data platform which supports our platform. purchases. to ensure our data is part of THG. They get involved in enterprise reporting solutions – safe and our websites everything from scaling and customising creating data-driven insights and are fast. our ecommerce platform to maintaining scalable business solutions through and improving our cloud-based analysis, programming and modelling warehouse management systems. on our ecommerce platforms, warehouse systems and logistics. 550+ 183 700 million User Experience: Our UX experts design and optimise the digital Networking & Infrastructure: technologists work international sites annual visits experience users have when engaging Our networking and infrastructure on our cutting-edge are supported by are made to THG with THG’s internal systems or team manages a multi-national live technology. our tech platform, operated websites. external brands. environment across multiple data THG Ingenuity. centres. They provide the services and support required to ensure our Information Security: Our InfoSec specialists work across all areas of tech teams always have the platform THG tech to ensure our systems they need fully ready and available. and processes are secure. 18 47 140,000+ Project Management: Our project managers apply processes, methods, cities from Sydney languages orders are Product Management: Our product knowledge, skills and experience to to San Antonio are are available processed each day. managers evaluate and determine help our tech teams deliver a broad home to our offices on our sites. what gets built and delivered to our customers – they are the intersection range of technology projects across and warehouses. between business, UX and technology. the business. 14 Graduate Opportunities 2019 15 OPPORTUNITIES OPPORTUNITIES Meet our tech graduates Meet our tech interns I joined the team in 2017 as an I been given valuable work, “ I love working in UX. We work “ I joined THG as a Software “ “ across every site and do everything Engineering graduate in 2013 intern and in my first few weeks, real responsibility and a real end-to-end, so I get to see how and immediately was given the I was asked to work on a huge insight into the tech industry. the whole business works. The responsibility and trust of working ongoing project. It has been I can’t wait to continue my best thing about THG is the people; on production systems that millions amazing to be able to see that career at THG as a graduate.” there are so many role models of customers used. As the business develop and have a real influence – Alexandru Lazar, Graduate Software Engineer here. You get a lot of responsibility has grown, the number of users on how it has been executed. early on in your career, so I’ve has grown exponentially, and as I strongly believe the best thing Even as a new starter, I already learnt a ridiculous amount one of the CTOs at THG, I now about starting my career at THG “ feel at home at THG. Great people, over the past year. have the privilege of managing has been the fact that I have been ” a great work environment, and lots – Graduate UX Designer over 200 people, over half of them empowered to take on challenges Iona Gilbraith, of potential for growth. From day joining as interns and graduates and projects I never thought I one I’ve been treated as an equal as I once did.