2019 Marketing and Business Development Undergraduate Summer Internship
by American Express
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2019 Marketing and Business Development Undergraduate Summer Internship
At American Express, our teams provide customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Our customers include our card members as well as the small businesses, merchants and corporations that are all members of the dynamic American Express network. As a part of our organisation, you’ll have the opportunity to expand this network either through shaping our marketing strategies or driving sales through effective pipeline management. If you seek a challenge and have a mind for either marketing or business development, consider spending your summer with American Express.
Marketing at American Express
Marketing captures, conceptualises and sells innovative ideas that make customers’ lives easier. As you might imagine, this is especially critical for a company with a passion for service at its core and with a history of reinvention. During a marketing internship, you’ll have the opportunity to expand the American Express network, grow our brand in the digital marketplace, create compelling value proposition and shape marketing strategies using extensive market and consumer data. If you enjoy using data to create winning marketing strategies, then a marketing internship at American Express could be for you.
Business Development at American Express
Business Development is what allows an organisation to grow by acquiring new and expanding existing customers. By tailoring offers to meet their needs today and in the future, Business Development identifies and sells innovative ideas that make customers’ lives easier. As you might imagine, this is especially critical for a company with a passion for service at its core and with a history of reinvention.
Our well-established Summer Internship Programme will provide high-performing students with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in projects that have strategic, operational or financial significance to the company. Interns will have the opportunity to work on a challenging project, with an opportunity to learn about the culture and values of American Express, as well as network across regions and functions.
The Summer Internship Programme commences in June 2018 for 10 weeks. It consists of the following components:
- Introduction to American Express through an induction day and training sessions
- Meaningful projects which will have real business impact
- Regular Speaker Series with senior management
- Social and networking events
- Structured performance management process and regular feedback
What type of work can you expect to do in Marketing and Business Development at American Express?
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the business and its needs
- Use innovative ways to prospect for new customers and improve the customer experience
- Research and analyse data to help American Express improve performance and drive growth
- Develop relationships with a variety of internal and external partners
- Lead end-to-end sales or marketing initiatives; develop and implement tests to measure effectiveness
- Track and report sales or marketing performance using a variety of key performance indicators to measure success and better understand the customer
- Share and leverage sales or marketing best practices and provide marketing consultancy to team
Do you have what it takes to build a career here?
- Strong customer focus and project management skills
- Ability to conceptualise and sell ideas
- Strong negotiation, communication and presentation skills
- Team player and individual contributor
- Strong analytical, problem-solving/quantitative skills
- Demonstrated strategic thought leadership to get results
Educational requirements
- Currently enrolled in a full-time undergraduate degree programme (any degree discipline) in your penultimate year of study
- A minimum of 320 UCAS points and a predicted 2:1 degree or international equivalent
About American Express
Be more at American Express
American Express’ heritage was built on service and has been sustained by innovation. Through our evolution from an express mail business in 1850, to one of the world’s largest card issuers by purchasing volume and a digital innovator, we’ve never been afraid to explore new possibilities and embrace the changing marketplace.
Why American Express
Talk to our people and you’ll find out what we’re really all about. Open, creative, risk-taking, collaborative and innovative are just some of the expressions you’ll hear. It’s our culture that makes American Express an outstanding place to work, and a big part of why we regularly win best workplace awards all over the world. If you’re ready to take on a challenge and make an impact, you owe it to yourself to launch or grow your career here.
Equal Opportunities Statement
American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or any other status protected by law
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