Marketing Assistant (Animal Health) Placement

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Deadline: 30th November 2018
Salary: £19,000
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Market Research, Marketing
Location: South East
City: Milton Keynes

Marketing Assistant (Animal Health) Placement

MSD Animal Health is looking for a positive and enthusiastic marketing placement student who is keen to gain exposure within a commercial business environment.

The successful applicant will spend a year supporting the marketing of an extensive range of small animal vaccines and medicines to veterinary customers.

The Company:

MSD Animal Health UK is the leading veterinary pharmaceutical company in the UK, with a market leading products for small animals, equine, ruminants, poultry, aqua and swine. With an annual turnover in excess of £120million we are a company always striving to improve animal health and wellbeing.

The Position:

This 1 year placement within MSD Animal Health Small Animal Team, based in Milton Keynes will provide you with valuable practical experience in brand and project management. It will also provide the opportunity to build your skills and knowledge within the animal health industry,

You will work as part of a team of 3 Product Managers and have the opportunity to support, give input to and lead key projects.

Description:

As the Marketing Assistant you will assist with and gain exposure to:

  • Devising and implementing marketing and PR campaigns on key strategic brands and disease areas within the small animal veterinary market
  • Project management of key shows and events, defining objectives and measuring ROI
  • Assisting with projects for key veterinary customers
  • Organising and co-ordinating Sales Meetings for the Companion Animal commercial team
  • Contributing to strategy and planning within cross functional team meetings
  • Liaising with design and digital agencies to complete artwork, print and digital media in a timely manner
  • Supporting the field sales and veterinary advisor team with customer needs and requests
  • Administration tasks such as budget management, print ordering, hotel bookings and managing the sign off process
  • Other ad-hoc projects as required

This is an office based role with an anticipated 1 day per month in the field.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Enrolment on a marketing or business related degree with a placement year
  • Attitudes required:
    • Outstanding team collaboration
    • Good time management and organisational skills
    • Good communication skills - verbal and written
    • Good analytical and financial understanding
    • Good presentation skills
    • Positive ‘can-do’ attitude

Your role at MSD is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations to come, and we’re counting on your skills and inventiveness to help make meaningful contributions to global medical advancement. At MSD, we’re inventing for life.

About MSD

MSD is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where MSD has codified its 125-year legacy. MSD’s success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

MSD’s Animal Health (MAH) division works to improve the health of animals around the world through collaborative partnerships and a deep sense of responsibility towards our customers, consumers, animals, society, and our planet. This team of energetic, independent thinkers offers one of the industry’s most innovative portfolios of products, services, and technologies that serve to prevent, treat, and control diseases across all major farm and companion animal species both domestically and internationally.

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