What is your advice for people considering a role in the Sales programme?
The Graduate Scheme allowed me to undertake a number of roles within the sales organisation. My first placement was with the UK Corporate Card team and this provided me with a solid foundation of the products and services being sold to the corporate client base. This initial grounding helped with my second placement as I worked on a multi-market implementation of one of American Express’ 50 global clients. This involved travelling to client locations across EMEA and ‘selling in’ the product at a local market level. My final rotation was with our Purchasing Card department which completed my knowledge of the corporate product set. What is your role after the Scheme? Since completing the Graduate Scheme in February 2005, I have been a local market Account Development Manager with a portfolio of seven of the global clients. Having completed a year in this role I was successful in obtaining a promotion to my current role and I am now looking at a further move to another geographic region t
