The Lubrizol Corporation

Sales and Marketing | Student Placement 2025/26

Company
Location
Hazelwood, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
4/9/2025
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About Lubrizol

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognise unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Job Title: Sales and Marketing | Student Placement 2025/26

Location: Hazelwood, Derbyshire, UK

Job type: FTC 1 Year for length of placement year | Starting in Summer 2025

Type of role: Hybrid from Hazelwood site

At Lubrizol, we have a vibrant student community in the UK across various roles and departments.

This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in both marketing and sales activities within a thriving business to business environment, working cross functionally within account management and product marketing support.

What You Will Be Doing

  • Provide support for customer visits, presentations, training and commercial support for the account managers.
  • Involvement in the annual plan input to commercial team for assigned accounts.
  • Support the regional sales team to drive activity necessary to execute growth targets and achieve the annual sales plan
  • Support the account managers to develop, communicate, and implement the regional product line strategy.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as strategic marketing, R&D, sales, procurement, supply chain and operations Collaborate with Operations, Procurement and Supply Chain
  • Support the implementation of marketing plans to generate awareness and demand for the products.
  • Provide timely technical services to sales and customers by working with the Technology deployment team
  • Assistance with volume forecasts for the European region.
  • Support with the development market management information (product, pricing, promotion) to assist with the Price/volume decision making
  • Involvement in the product positioning activities in support of customers’ business plan
  • Assist the Marketing group to develop market communications, internal communications, and all promotional programs for the region
  • Support in actively collecting information to build strategic account plans to grow customer business and overall market share. 

Why Lubrizol?

We know that Lubrizol is not a common household name, so it may surprise you to know that our products and technologies are in the things that you use every day- from surfaces and fluids in the vehicles you drive, to shampoo, medicines, to the clothes that you wear.

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, combines our unique chemistry expertise, formulation and applications capabilities, and market insights to positively impact the lives of our customer’s end users around the globe.

What You Will Need

  • Studying towards business related degree including a year in industry, achieving a 2:1 or above.
  • Able to handle multiple tasks and appropriately manage priorities, whilst completing work within target dates
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office packages and related common business software
  • Keen interest in commercial aspects of business along with an enthusiasm for building collaborative relationships

What We Can Offer You

  • Competitive salary
  • Discretionary bonus
  • 33 days holiday (including 8 bank holidays)
  • Competitive Pension Scheme
  • Flexible Working Hours
  • Potential to support Final Year Project
  • Subsidised Sports and Social Club (Some Locations)
  • Subsidised on site restaurant facility (Some Locations)
  • Free Car Parking

Together, we are Lubrizol: Where science excels, and people make a difference.

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. We are talented people working together to solve problems and improve lives through science. We are making a difference, and we will never stop pushing to do it better.

Lubrizol is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from a diverse range of applicants. All applicants will be considered entirely on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities.

Our application process is very straightforward, simply create a short profile and upload your CV and cover letter. Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK for the duration of the placement and have completed a minimum of 2 years of an undergraduate degree but not graduated before the start of the placement.

We recommend you apply as soon as possible, because we accept ongoing applications and will close this vacancy once we have enough applications.

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their ethnic origin, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic.
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