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About your team:
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We’ve been powering the UK’s homes and businesses for over 200 years – but supplying energy is just part of what we do. We’re making the UK greener and more energy efficient, getting closer to Net Zero. By using clever tech like thermostats, heat pumps, solar panels and EV chargers, we’re making it cheaper and easier for our customers to reduce their carbon-footprint.
Military & Athlete 2026 Talent Placement – VOID Partnerships Manager (June 2026 Intake).
Location: Hybrid with occasional office travel for collaboration and team meetings. For example: Windsor, London, Leicester, Stockport
12-month Fixed term contract.
A programme designed to help you thrive during career transition.
We’re delighted to open applications for our 2026–2027 Talent Placement Programme.
This programme is designed to support you as you transition into a new career. Whether you are leaving the Armed Forces or finishing an elite sporting career, we welcome the experience, discipline and resilience you bring.
You’ll gain hands on experience in a FTSE100 organisation, receive tailored support, and join a community that values who you are and what you can offer.
What you’ll do:
We have an exciting placement opportunity for a VOID Partnerships Manager within our Retail team.
In this role, you’ll manage relationships with key VOID partners, helping drive long-term success and strong commercial performance. You’ll support the growth of our residential VOID energy portfolio by contributing to sales and retention through valued consumer partnerships.
Your work will help strengthen British Gas as the brand other businesses choose to partner with, through differentiated propositions and positive customer experiences. During the placement, we’ll also build your knowledge of our Residential Billing platforms and the end-to-end account creation process.
During your placement, you will:
Manage day-to-day relationships with new and existing VOID partners, ensuring service levels are met and delivering excellent customer service
Work directly with partners to support collaboration and performance
Collaborate with internal teams to drive efficiencies and help deliver retention and growth strategies
Communicate with partners across multiple channels, resolving enquiries from start to finish
Support the smooth running and optimisation of partnership processes, ensuring regulatory standards are met
What we’re looking for: we’re looking for potential, not perfection. You don’t need to meet every requirement to apply:
Key Skills & Experience:
Self-motivated with a positive, “can-do” attitude and a desire to make a difference
Quick to learn and comfortable working with new or complex processes
Strong leadership, communication, interpersonal and organisational skills
Able to manage your own workload, multitask and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment
Confident stakeholder manager, able to liaise with internal and external partners
Excellent attention to detail with the ability to resolve queries effectively
Strong time management skills, able to prioritise and deliver multiple outcomes under pressure
Understanding of great customer service and end-to-end customer journeys
Committed to continuous learning and self-development
You’ll also have a dedicated business mentor, opportunities to meet senior leaders, and plenty of support to settle into your role.
Who the programme is for:
This placement is open to:
Military Service Leavers (leaving the Forces or within the 2-year CTP window at application)
Elite Athletes (international competition experience and/or professional UK sports experience within the last two years)
Applicants who have not completed our pathway programme previously
We recognise excellence:
We want you to feel included, supported and able to succeed. You’ll receive:
£50,000 salary for the 12month placement
Real project experience in a FTSE100 organisation
A dedicated mentor to help you build commercial skills
Flexible working and travel to office locations only when collaboration is needed
Access to our Employee Networks
A Buddy from our Ex-Forces or Athlete communities
For Service Leavers: the chance to begin the placement during your final four weeks of resettlement
How to apply for your preferred role
Please upload one document (Word or PDF) that includes:
1. Personal Statement (max 750 words)
Tell us:
Which placement role you’re applying for
How your skills, experience and personal qualities align to the role
2. CV (max 2 pages)
Highlight your:
Transferable skills & key achievements
Qualifications
Military or athletic experience
Key dates:
Application deadline: Midnight, Monday 6 April
Assessment Centre: 30th April, Centrica HQ (Windsor)
Start date: Tuesday 30th June 2026
If you need any reasonable adjustments during the process, please let us know — we’re happy to support you.
Not available in June?
We also offer placements in September 2026 and March 2027, the application process for September will open soon.
If this placement isn’t the right fit, you can explore more opportunities at www.lifeatcentrica.com #LI-DNI
Why should you apply?
We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we’re a great place to work and what being part of more means for you.
https://www.morethanacareer.energy/britishgas
If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.
Help us, help you. We would love for you to share any information about yourself throughout our recruitment process so that we can better understand you and help shape your journey.
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Centrica is a leading energy services and solutions provider founded on a 200-year heritage of serving people. We are the UK’s biggest retailer of zero carbon electricity, serving around 10 million customers across the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe through brands such as British Gas, supported by around 9,000 highly trained engineers and technicians. Centrica’s purpose of helping you live sustainably, simply and affordably drives our strategy and our People and Planet Plan.
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