Digital Marketing Placement

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Digital Marketing Placement

Our Digital team is innovating how we understand our patients and their needs. Working cross functionally we are inventing new ways of communicating, measuring and interacting with our customers and patients through digital channels and technologies.

About The Role:

• Are you an ambitious and determined individual who takes initiative?
• Are you resolute and ready to lead projects whilst being a part of a cross functional team?

The Digital Customer Engagement and Operations team you’ll join is a valued strategic and executional partner who supports the sales and marketing of all our products. We support market understanding of effective customer engagement to ensure a focus on emphasising the value of our products to our customers and, more importantly, patients through a number of different channels.

The successful candidate will be a critical member of this team for 12 months. You will be instrumental in supporting digital channel and capability development that will help drive our customer engagement transformation model. This provides an outstanding opportunity to learn about the dynamics of the pharmaceutical industry and the major competitor companies within, which will build a strong foundation for success in your future.

A Day in the Life of a Digital Marketing Placement Student & Key Responsibilities:

• Project manage new and current digital innovations within the company
• Create, develop and approve marketing campaigns for 'Connect' and webcasts, using UX and UI principles
• Collaborate with multiple brand teams in the filming, directing and editing of videos in the in-house AV studio
• Help brands develop their evolving digital strategy
• Develop & work with cross functional teams including Business Insights, Creative, Medical and Legal
• Support remote interactions through webcasting and virtual events
• Support Connect (our online healthcare portal) and mobile communications as they play a critical role in our promotional and corporate strategies
• Support the email channel which is an integral component of our go to market model and acquisition strategy
• Make tactical marketing recommendations to the business through digital data and customer insights
• Lead on team communications through monthly internal infographics
• Complete user efficiency and compliance auditing
• Embrace Agile ways of working by managing the process of how information is exchanged in the teams

What is required?

Education

• Working towards a minimum of a 2:1 degree in marketing / digital marketing based disciplines
• Entering your third or penultimate year of study, returning to your degree course at the end of the placement
• Minimum B grade in marketing and/or business studies A level

Key Capabilities/Skills

• Ability to communicate accurately both verbally and in writing
• Strong understanding of marketing fundamentals
• Strong organisation and project management skills
• Team player, learning from and helping others overcome obstacles
• Strong sense of urgency takes initiative to do things without being asked
• Has a can-do attitude, anticipates problems and proposes solutions, approaches work challenges creatively with fresh ideas
• Listens and adapts to improve
• A self-starter who can be relied upon to work without supervision

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

Our presence in the UK goes back a long way. For over 80 years, we’ve been researching, developing and supplying new medicines and vaccines that prevent and treat diseases that occur at every stage of life. Today we're one of the top five biopharmaceutical companies in the UK and employ over 2,000 people across five sites in Hertfordshire, Northumberland, Buckinghamshire, Edinburgh and London. We are officially certified by the Top Employer Institute and been awarded the exclusive Top Employer United Kingdom Certification for the second year running.

Please note, successful applicants to our student placement programme will be engaged via Agile 1, our third-party recruitment partner.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together.

The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

What we look for

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization. Together we will continue Inventing For Life, Impacting Lives while Inspiring Your Career Growth.

About MSD

Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA is known as “Merck” in the United States, Canada & Puerto Rico. We are known as “MSD” in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America & Asia Pacific. We are a global biopharmaceutical leader with a diverse portfolio of prescription medicines, oncology, vaccines and animal health products.

We are driven by our purpose to develop and deliver innovative products that save and improve lives. With 69,000 employees operating in more than 140 countries, we offer state of the art laboratories, plants and offices that are designed to Inspire our employees as we learn, develop and grow in our careers. We are proud of our 125 years of service to humanity and continue to be one of the world’s biggest investors in Research & Development.

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