Customer and Stakeholder Management Industrial Placement 2026

Job Introduction

The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for Industrial Placements 2026.  

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, commencing at the start of July 2026, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us.  

You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities are on offer at the Met Office after you graduate. 

We’re looking for a Customer and Stakeholder Management Industrial Placement 2026 to help us make a difference to our planet. 

As our Customer and Stakeholder Management Industrial Placement 2026, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work. As an Industrial Placement, we would expect you to attend the office once a week as a minimum. 

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week.  Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone. 

World changing work 

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are. 

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact 
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better 
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making 
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater 
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers 

Your world of expertise 

Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts in their field.  You’ll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference. 

This role will be exposed to the wide range of work delivered under Met Office Chief Customer Officer. This will include getting to understand the different market sectors the Met Office operates in and the customers, stakeholders, users, and partners we work with to ensure we meet our purpose of helping people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

To do this, the role will work with Account Managers, Stakeholder Relationship Managers, and Marketing Managers, bringing together knowledge across professions to ensure your work, and the work of others, is customer driven, making a real difference, to help put our customers and stakeholders first.

Your key duties 

• Working with Stakeholder Relationship Managers to develop the Met Offices insights on how Government and Industry operate, and to keep staff in formed of updates from Government.
• Getting involved in market research projects and pulling through the results to business teams and their plans.
• Supporting the writing of briefings, reports, and bid documents.
• Identifying and leading on, opportunities to improve internal communication and relationship management tools.

Why join us 

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023 and 2024 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.  

Your package includes: 

• Your salary will be £27,170  
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days 
• Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands 

 Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2027, there may be an opportunity to apply for our Graduate Development scheme upon completion of your university studies. However, this is not guaranteed and would be subject to programme availability and a successful application. 

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:  

1. We are better together – you have excellent communication and teamwork skills, and not afraid to share your ideas
2. We live and breathe it – you take pride in your work and have clear and compelling writing and presentation skills for both expert, and non-expert, audiences
3. We are experts by nature – you are self-motivated with excellent organisational skills, showing attention to detail and able to manage multiple priority tasks
4. We keep evolving – you demonstrate the ability to work independently, including the self-management of your development and how you apply your learning,

How to apply 

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application.  

Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills. Please also look at the Early Careers Programmes Application Guidance at the bottom of this advert. 

Closing date: 23:59 7th December 2025. Please note we often receive a high volume of applications, but we will contact everyone who applies once the closing date has past.   

Interviews will be completed by February 2026. 

Using AI in your application 

We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions at the Met Office are made by people, not AI. For more details, visit our approach to recruitment. 

How we can help 

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.   

If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role. 

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code. 

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.