Sales & Marketing Internship

Job description

Multi-talented graduate to work as a Liaison for Queen of Retreats (www.queenofretreats.com), the UK’s only intelligently curated collection of the world’s best retreats.

Key skills: sales/marketing/journalism/copywriting/proofreading/photo management/retreat relationships)

Detail: We are looking for a multi-talented graduate for a full time paid internship starting September 2017. We seek an intelligent, highly organised, capable and creative graduate with a passion for marketing and an eye for detail. A confident self starter, the successful candidate will have a way with words and be able to write, edit and proofread brilliantly, love social media, and have the confidence and warmth to foster good, long term relationships with people and companies. Based in our London office, you will be briefed by our editor who is based in the South West, so will need to be a self starter who is happy to work independently and get on with the job. Ideally you will have some knowledge of content management systems, photo shop and InDesign or the aptitude to learn quickly.

Tasks will include:
•liaising with companies and managing our relationships with them
•intelligent, daily social media postings
•responding to daily email messages
•writing and preparing weekly newsletters on mail chimp
•investigative online research - having the energy and interest to ‘go the extra mile’ to find things out
•choosing (with a creative eye), resizing, relabelling and managing a library of photographs
•uploading photos and copy to the CMS
•filling in SEO boxes on the CMS
•writing, editing and proof reading headlines, straplines and copy where necessary
•liaising with writers about copy and photographs - including being the What’s App liaison to receive and post writers’ photos when they are on their trips
•recording and managing sign ups, social media posts, home page presence, newsletters etc on an Excel spreadsheet
•collating and sending out quarterly statistics to retreats on 3 things - how many people have landed on their page, how many people have clicked their link, and how many people/who filled out their email form
•managing and updating promotional boxes on each Retreat Page, and keeping a calendar of them
•sending out media packs and questionnaires to new retreats, and managing our sales relationships with them
•sending out and tracking contract and invoices
•selling advertising space for our blog (long term)
•Being a champion of the Queen of Retreats brand