Marketing Placements 2018 (12 months, ASAP start)

Job description

Marketing Placement 2018/2019

When it comes to finding a great place to work for your industrial placement there are plenty of things to look for: inspirational colleagues, freedom in your job to make a real difference and a shared ethos you can truly believe in. Throw in top perks, a responsive and dynamic environment and unrivalled opportunities to develop you've found something pretty special. You've found Danone…

Danone is a major FMCG company in the UK, with market leading brands across four divisions: Waters (Evian, Volvic), Dairies (Actimel, Activia, Shape), Early Life Nutrition (Aptamil, Cow & Gate) and Nutricia Medical (Fortisip)

We are passionate about recruiting great people to our business and developing their talent – our Marketing Placements are a key part of this. We have multiple marketing placement positions available in our Dairy and Waters businesses, based in London. If successful you will be dedicated to one of our talented brand teams working with some of our iconic brands!

Key responsibilities include:

Lead and manage key Below-the-Line projects within Brand portfolio. For example:

·  Digital projects such as website, direct e-mail campaign, search engine marketing
·  Packaging projects such as line-up relaunches
·  Instore projects such as developing in-store material, couponing, direct mail campaigns

Lead key analysis projects

·  Analyse data from variety of sources (internal/external, desk/field) and make recommendations
·  For example: recommending a new flavour to launch, understanding why competitive launch succeeded or failed, reviewing an adjacent category

Lead Internal Events

·  Lead presentations to whole organization on brand performance and upcoming activities
·  Lead organization of internal launch events

Support members of the team in key work streams

·  Be first point of contact on the brand for any requests
·  Create and manage project timelines
·  Support product development process by helping identify product benchmarks, arranging tasting sessions, leading feedback to R&D
·  Support the team’s sample and mock up needs
·  Support key meetings by arranging venues etc

Manage budget

·  Raise and confirm Purchase Orders, track budget
·  Proactively raise issues and follow up with suppliers
·  Liaise with finance to rectify issues with supplier invoices

Lead Brand Tracking

·  Track brand performance on weekly and monthly basis (sales, share, consumer KPIs…) and develop conclusions and recos
·  Track competitive activity in store and online

Candidate Profile:

·  On track to achieving a 2.1 or above in any degree discipline
·  Ability to work in the UK (ie without a visa)
·  Actively contributes new ideas and initiatives
·  Uses all appropriate communication channels to share and gather different information and viewpoints
·  Develops authentic relationships with cross-functional teams
·  Personable: excellent interpersonal skills - a real team player
·  Seeks feedback, gains awareness of own strengths & weaknesses and proactively finds opportunities for self-development

Salary £18,500

Deadline 28th November 2017

For more information about Danone, its people and its business, please visit danone.com We have something special inside, do you?