Product & Channel Marketing Student Placement/Intern

Job Description

Job title: Product & Channel Marketing Student Placement/Intern

Company: Canon

Job description: Job Purpose and Summary

As a Marketing Placement student, you will be carrying out a variety of tasks to help plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate customer marketing activity. Supporting the Product and Channel Marketing teams, you will help to achieve the company marketing and sales objectives. You will have the drive and enthusiasm to put your academic learning and experience into practice – and to make a difference.

What we give

With Canon, you’ll get the support and encouragement you need to grow, from people who share your ambition. We’ll invest in your professional development to help you learn and progress in your role with us. You’ll find leaders who give you the freedom to explore new things and a team where knowledge is shared openly.

You will be a fully-fledged member of the team, with projects and responsibilities to manage yourself.

You will be assigned specific tasks as well as defined projects, which will be based upon business needs and the strategic activity to support longer term goals. You will use your analytical skills to monitor performance and take appropriate action to resolve or escalate issues as appropriate.

Working towards your own objectives, you will solicit feedback, design and execute project plans, identify measures of success and generate ideas for improvement. Along with a commercial mind set, your innovative thinking will allow you to demonstrate your passion in developing robust marketing concepts.

Occasionally, you will represent Canon at events and exhibitions where you need to have confidence in supporting the Canon brand. You will provide support to our account managers and retailers by meeting and handling queries over phone, by email and face to face. You will also have ownership of a set project, key product area or an important retail account within the team, and work with the Sales team and Product and Channel team to support this.

You will also be part of a marketing project planning team and will have the opportunity to learn about best practice and to share your ideas in a compelling way. Working in collaboration with Product, Sales, and PR & Communications teams, you will provide additional support to the wider team on marketing activities as required.

Examples of areas/channels you will experience: account-based marketing activity, in-store and online campaigns, liaising with design and print agencies, product launches, events and exhibitions, incentive schemes, digital services, eCRM, and more…!

What we ask

You will need be analytical with good attention to detail. You will have excellent organisational skills and your project planning skills with the ability to provide to track projects and provide updates when asked. You will be able to work under pressure and will have the energy to manage a busy workload.

Your communication skills, written and verbal will be outstanding, as will your interpersonal skills, to influence and negotiate internally and externally to the organisation.

Confident by nature and able to use your own initiative, you will be able to respond to a fast-paced environment.

You will have a good level of knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Most importantly, you must have the desire to learn.

A predicted 2:1 level degree or equivalent in a business or marketing related degree is preferred, but you must have a minimum of B grade in GCSE Maths and English.

You will need

This opportunity requires an exceptional team player, who has the capability to own the responsibilities given to them, to possess excellent planning and organisational skills and to adapt their academic learning into a work placement. Your communication skills will need to be tailored to your audience and you will have a strong desire to learn and drive results.

Further Information

Hours – 37.5 per week
Location – Stockley Park, Uxbridge, UK

Canon offers a hybrid working policy split between our offices in Uxbridge, Middlesex, and home working. Canon is an equal opportunity employer. Canon recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status or other protected status as required by law.

At Canon we have a clear vision: to be committed to creating a more inclusive and equitable culture where employees are valued and can thrive personally and professionally.

Canon also has a strong commitment to sustainability, encompassed by our Kyosei philosophy of living and working together for the common good, focused on reducing our environmental impact and creating opportunities to make positive social contribution.

Expected salary:

Location: Uxbridge, Greater London

Job date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:54:38 GMT

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