2027 Industry Placement, Events and Marketing

Responsibilities

• Support the UK & Ireland marketing team to ensure efficient planning, execution, and measurement of campaigns and initiatives as part of our UK & Ireland marketing strategy, working with the relevant functional marketing teams as required.
• Help to ensure consistency of ‘best in class’ approach to larger marketing investments, including assisting with setup and preparation of briefing calls and briefing packs.
• Support UK & Ireland corporate marketing team with preparation of presentations and regular reporting for EMEA business leadership and global marketing leadership, ensuring formatting and branding is in line with company templates and standards.
• Assist with digital and website content development and maintenance, including review of service, industry and biography webpages.
• Help to create compelling and innovative communications that meets various internal and external messaging needs, including drafting of client mailings, newsletters and social media posts.
• Support events management for internal team events and external client events, including conferences, seminars, roundtable breakfasts/dinners, and networking drinks/dinners.
• Assist with production of collateral, including proofreading and liaising with creative and content teams.
• Conduct market and competitor research to inform marketing strategies and activities.
• Assist with other day-to-day team tasks and ad hoc projects, including web and email enquiries, management of shared mailboxes, processing invoices, etc.
• Building social media assets and copy for any upcoming marketing activations.

Requirements

• Applicants must be completing a sandwich course at university and due to graduate in 2029
• Applicants must be available for this placement year from 6th September 2027 to 25th August 2028
• Applicants must be predicted a 2:1 or above final grade (or equivalent) for their degree
• Applicants should be proficient in Microsoft Office applications (particularly PowerPoint and Excel)
• Ability to prioritise and manage time, workload and projects effectively
• Strong communication abilities, both verbally and in writing and comfortable communicating at all levels of an organisation
• Willingness to learn how to navigate a complex organisation and establish networks, with excellent stakeholder management skills
• Proactive workload management – Demonstrates the ability to prioritise tasks effectively, make time for important work, and proactively seek clarification or support when needed to keep work progressing and ensure deadlines are met.

Preferred

• Prior experience in a marketing or corporate environment, ideally professional services or B2B
• Prior experience in events management, including online events.
• Experience in assisting with the creation and co-ordination of collateral both digital and paper based
• Experience with using Eloqua (Oracle email marketing) or similar packages
• Experience with using Salesforce (CRM Sales Cloud) or similar packages
• Leadership experience desirable – Experience of taking on leadership or responsibility is desirable, whether gained through employment, education or extracurricular activities. This could include leading a sports team, contributing to a university society, taking responsibility in a hospitality role, participating in military youth programmes, volunteering, or other team-based activities