Student Placement

Do you want to become a valuable member of the team which produced the best pie of 2023?

Do you want a rewarding placement?
One that allows you to gain new skills
and develop those you already have,
to carry into graduate jobs.
All without any prior experience.

100% of our previous placement students have had successful post grad employment, aided by the experience gained with us!

👉  Are you in need of a change of pace?
👉  Are you bored of the theory work
👉  And looking for some hands-on experience and fresh challenges?
👉  All while gaining working knowledge and extending your uni experience

Brockleby’s Pies are a small family business employing up to 40 staff on the edge of Melton Mowbray, best known as the Rural Capital of Food.

We are a retail baker that prides itself in sourcing local ingredients to handmake a range of savoury pies, including the authentic Melton Mowbray pork pie. We sell our pies through mail order, wholesale, and markets/shows and events, meaning you can be involved in logistics, marketing, and accounts amongst other areas. In 2023, we are proud to have achieved the highly sought after accolade of Supreme Champion Pie in the British Pie Awards!

👉 Do you want to immerse yourself in the workings of a small business?
👉 One which produced the best pie of 2023?
👉 You will be guided into positions of responsibility across a range of areas in the business allowing you to make decisions that will have real impacts

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Gain experience in:

Marketing

  • You will have an opportunity to manage our social media pages and interact with our followers through various channels and gain an understanding of how best to target people through each channel. you will be using these channels to maintain and improve our public relations amongst sales and general information.
  • You will be responsible for our sales and event management, a crucial role as our whole business is operated around attending weekly events. You will be assisting our marketing manager in creating effective marketing materials to use throughout various campaigns. You will become proficient in digital marketing and direct mailing through various channels and be responsible for these campaigns when implemented into our marketing strategy.

Production management

  • After gaining hands-on experience in the production of our pies (where you will learn to make all the pies, including the authentic Melton Mowbray pork pie), you will be reviewing the recipes and costing of our products. This is vital to maintaining a good margin on our product. Every food business follows a food safety protocol, each year we review this. For your training, you will help to review our HACCP documentation and update it where necessary.
  • You can also have the opportunity to lead a team of students in a ‘new product development’ project that we team up with the University of Nottingham to create. Further, during our winter period, you will be involved in the creation, marketing and selling of our Christmas offerings.

Sales team management

  • You will help to manage the sales team that attends our weekend events. You will be responsible for the logistics and preparation of our sales team for the weekend. Managing the event inventory for each member of the team will give our staff the best chance of high sales figures. You will also become a sales representative, attending various markets and selling our pies to the public.
  • On office days there will be a chance to manage our online sales process. From packaging parcels as part of our dispatch team to liaising with couriers, to provide our customers with reliable delivery of our much-loved pies.

Mail order dispatch management

  • There is an opportunity to manage the complete operation of this part of the business which includes direct sales to home delivery customers, order processing, order fulfilment, logistics and customer service. This requires logistical skills, problem solving and good planning. It can involve liaising with our delivery company as there may be issues with collection of parcels, or in delivering them to customers.

Accounts management

  • You will have the chance to manage the accounts for the business. You will be gathering and referencing our purchase orders to our transactions. You will be completing both bank account and delivery reconciliations making sure transactions relate to the supporting documents. You will be internally auditing the business and analysing transaction and sales data.
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This is a placement for an undergraduate seeking a wide range of experience from their year in industry! Based in Melton Mowbray, this is a hands-on opportunity to get involved and to take part in projects that make a real difference to the business.

The successful student will benefit greatly from the opportunity to work in a wide variety of areas of the business including marketing, sales, production, account management and logistics. You will be able to carry out a number of projects, being involved in weekly management meetings, as well as the quarterly business meetings. Working across departments, you will be able to learn a variety of skills and improve those you already have.

We’ll give you a breadth of experience encompassing all aspects of the business. All degrees considered.

You will need:

  • A manual driving licence and
  • Ability to commute reliably, or relocation to within 30 minutes from Melton Mowbray, Leicester e.g Loughborough, Nottingham

We are happy and able to provide help with finding accommodation and transport if this is necessary.

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Your Next Steps

If you like what you hear above, fill out our form below to apply.

You will then be emailed a confirmation of your application and what the next steps will be.

 We look forward to hearing from you!

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