Marketing and Insights Industrial Placement

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About Pernod Ricard UK

We are convivial, passionate and entrepreneurial.

As members of the Pernod Ricard Group – world no. 2 in the wines and spirits industry, we are proud to manage a prestigious portfolio of internationally recognised brands, of which 17 are counted amongst the global top 100 amongst the wine and spirits brands!

Our brands include famous names such as Absolut Vodka, Havana Club Rum, Malibu Coconut Rum, Lamb’s Navy Rum, Kahlúa Liquor, Monkey 47 Gin, Plymouth Gin, Chivas Regal Whisky, Jameson Irish Whiskey, The Glenlivet Single Malt Whisky, Martell Cognac, Perrier-Jouët Champagne, G.H. Mumm Champagne, Brancott Estate Wine from New Zealand, Campo Viejo wine from Spain, Graffigna wine from Argentina and Jacob’s Creek wine from Australia.

Here at Pernod Ricard UK we are responsible for bringing these fantastic brands to British consumers through the sales, marketing and distribution of these premium spirits, wines and champagnes in the UK.

Marketing and Insights Industrial Placement

We’re looking to recruit a number of undergraduates with the flair and motivation to join our bright futures programme, offering you a huge amount of invaluable business experience in a highly exciting and fun industry. You will have the chance to work for a world-class organisation, with world-class, recognisable brands.

You’ll work collaboratively with your line manager to set objectives at the beginning of the placement, which will focus on business needs as well as your professional development. Your line manager will support you during your placement and will review your progress and development on a regular basis.

A successful placement may lead to a graduate offer - Time to impress!

What’s your role?

As a part of the wider marketing team, you will work directly with one of the key brand teams. You will assist the senior brand manager in strategic development and will help drive the progression of integrated and innovative programmes; this may include above the line, digital and below the line activation.

As well as acting as a support function to a brand team, you will also contribute to the insights division of the marketing team working on both ad hoc and continuous research projects.

Key Purpose

• To assist the Havana Club brand marketing team with brand management activities.
• To assist and support the Business and Consumer Insights team in providing relevant, timely and actionable insights to the business.

What can you expect?

Here are just some of the things you can expect to get involved in:

Marketing

• Assist with day-to-day brand management activities for Havana Club such as; generating and collating brand assets, assisting the commercial teams with brand requests and sending out product/brand information to key external stakeholders.
• Management of social media channels; day–to-day running of platforms and budget reconciliation.
• Helping to manage brand events, both consumer and customer facing.
• Managing the brands email campaigns (eCRM).
• Managing monthly content of our brand website.
• Assisting the customer marketing teams to help drive cross channel activations across the year.

Insights

• Compile monthly innovation tracker; monitoring of key competitor activity.
• As required to fulfil ad hoc requests, retrieve Nielsen and CGA data from the relevant databases using the Answers software.

What’s in it for you?

All marketing projects have to be rooted in a real understanding of consumers and their behaviour. This role will enable you to understand key consumer dynamics in this fast moving industry, and contribute to furthering our knowledge in this important area. You will also get a hands-on understanding of the brand management role, working on one of the sexiest brands in the Spirits category. You’ll also get the chance to attend some of our fantastic corporate events to fully immerse yourself in our desirable brands. In return, we’re looking for a motivated, enthusiastic, ambitious individual with great interpersonal skills.

What do we require?

Applicants must:

• Be studying a recognised sandwich undergraduate degree.
• Be studying a Business Management undergraduate degree, ideally incorporating analytical and statistical modules.
• Be on track to achieve 2:1 or above.
• Have a minimum of 300 UCAS points over three subjects at A Level (or equivalent).
• Have eligibility to unrestrictedly work and live in the UK for the duration of the placement.
• Be available to work for 12 months.

Placements will commence in June 2018 for successful candidates, 25 days holiday plus additional benefits.

The question is… Have you got the bottle?

How to apply

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