Paid 12 Month Internship - Marketing Agency

Job description

A Bit About Us

Our London office is home to over 120 skilled individuals with a collaborative spirit. We thrive on each other’s differences, from industry-leading insight formers to award-winning creative types. Together we create big, bold campaigns for many of the world’s best-known brands including McDonald’s, Adidas, Red Bull and Cereal Partners Worldwide. Award-winning, fully-integrated know-how stretching back over 30 years.

From our heritage in retail and promotional marketing, we are now an agency that offers clients 360 degree thinking and creative, with ‘digital’ forming an essential part of our core offering.

Here it’s people that matter. At The Marketing Store, you count. Whatever your passion, personality and personal ambition, we all do our bit to help each other shine. As a result, our 10 offices around the world employ more than 800 people, and we’re known internationally as one of the “best places to work”.

Here’s Why We Think You Will Love This Role

This internship role will sit within our global McDonald’s Kids and Family client services team. This team do some incredible work with McDonald’s supporting the development, production and launch of happy meal kits across multiple markets globally. No mean feat!

Of course we know that McDonald’s is a global icon. A truly amazing brand recognised the world over. However, with increased competition, tough economic times and competitors copying the winning Happy Meal formula, McDonald’s now has to deliver beyond the traditional toy in a box with more exciting, innovative and inspiring activation. We are constantly looking for new ways to make the Happy Meal box an engaging and learning experience for kids and their families. We challenge ourselves to think about what licensors we can partner with such as Universal, Lego, Barbie etc. to ensure that the promotions we offer can achieve this.

As part of this internship you will have the opportunity to work with the team as they draw upon key consumer behaviours that shape key strategies to inspire great creative thinking. You will also get the opportunity to lend your own creative opinion to various happy meal initiatives such as the games that go into the kits and the additional extras such as the character themed straws! Your inner child will be very much put to the test here!

What You Will Bring to The Agency

A dedicated and ambitious person you will be looking to develop your knowledge and experience within a buzzing and forward thinking marketing agency. We want you to bring a positive and enthusiastic approach to the role, be prepared to challenge and ask questions, stretch the strengths you already have (we call these superpowers), learn new skills and above all be ready to have fun!

Desired profile

Skills and Experience We Would Like You to Have

Outside of your drive, passion, ambition and fun loving approach to everything you do, there are some things we would like you to have!

• You will be a motivated person who approaches new tasks with enthusiasm and willingness to learn
• You will be highly organised with the ability to prioritise your work to meet deadlines
• You will be able to work well under pressure and maintain a calm approach to busy situations
• Finally, preferably, you will be looking for an opportunity to learn more about agency life and therefore we would love you to have an interest in marketing, account handling and, ideally, a passion for toys!