Location: Howden, Yorkshire or Runcorn, Cheshire

Closing Date: 25th August 2025

Salary: £24,000 + Benefits

Contract: 12 months “sandwich year”

Are you looking for a 12-month IT placement where you will learn invaluable technical skills and gain real-life work experience with a FTSE 100 organisation? We have an exciting opportunity for undergraduates to join our IT Systems team based in our office in Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire or Runcorn, Cheshire. Joining the UK’s number one trade kitchen supplier, you will work alongside industry experts where you will build experience and skills that will help you thrive in your early career.

Howdens has been a great place to work for Placement Students for over 10 years. We have vast experience in employing and developing our Placement Students ensuring that they feel that they are part of our business. Our IT placement programme has been designed to give you the chance to gain highly valuable work experience and skills and potentially secure yourself a permanent position within one of our graduate opportunities on completion of your studies.

What we can offer you:

As an IT Placement, you will join us for 12 months, receive a £24,000 salary, and work onsite 5 days a week. You will receive 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, employee well-being support, an on-site canteen offering a free daily lunch, shopping discounts, and be invited to exceptional reward and recognition events.

About the Placement:

Our IT systems department supports the business by designing, developing, configuring, and supporting IT systems in use throughout the business, from manufacturing sites, warehouses and over 900 trade depots around the country. The Placement is an Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) Analyst. In the role you will learn:

• incident and problem management ensuring that the business is able to operate at its optimum effectiveness
• Work with the EWM team & developers through the build process and gain exposure in ensuring a fit-for-purpose solution is delivered to the end user

Am I eligible for this programme?

• Our placement programmes are for university students currently studying towards an undergraduate degree ideally in a STEM subject, who are seeking a 12-month sandwich placement before their final year of study. You must have the right to work in the UK.
• You must be able to undertake your placement to start in September 2025.
• Have a genuine interest in IT for example in IT systems or specifically SAP
• Be a confident communicator and be able to work well within a team.
• Possess excellent attention to detail.
• Be able to work collaboratively with others and be solutions-focused with a positive outlook.

How to apply:

• Submit your on-line application, CV and covering letter.
• Attach a portfolio or examples of projects or achievements that you have been involved with or solely taken on related to IT & technology. Please note this is optional.
• You will need to activate your account when you apply for this IT placement role. Please check your email carefully to ensure that you have completed this step. We are unable to view your application if you have not activated your account.

Hiring Process:

• Closing date for applications is Monday 25th August
• Screening calls will take place that week followed by an on-site Interview at our Howden Office, East Riding of Yorkshire and or Runcorn, Cheshire beginning of Sept with a view to have an immediate start.

Good luck with your application!