Retail Marketing Internship Bury, North West England, England
Job description
About the Marketing team
The marketing team are responsible for generating modern, fresh and culturally relevant omni channel marketing ideas. Bringing campaigns to life from conception to reality. Whether it be large scale global campaigns, the biggest celebrity collaborations or new store activations, the departments main priority is to create ideas through messaging, imagery and motion. We live and breathe our brand and commercial objectives by enticing, exciting and engaging our target consumer. We work on creative concepts for iconic calendar events such as Christmas, Summer, Back to School and beyond.
We're looking for creative minded, delivery and performance focused individuals to join our inhouse team. You'll be working within a team of talented brand, campaign, influence, retail and social marketing experts on an array of omnichannel marketing campaigns. Working alongside our brand partners including Nike, adidas, Puma, The North Face and Under Armour to name a few. This is an extremely exciting time to join our expanding inhouse marketing team.
The successful candidate must be:
- Available to start in September 2022
- Able to commit to a full time 12-month fixed term contract
- Able to commute to Pilsworth, Bury HQ for 5 days a week for the first month and then 3 days after.
- Currently studying a relevant marketing degree
About the Retail Marketing Team:
Responsible for driving the performance of UK and Republic of Ireland JD stores. Defining the strategy and coordinating the marketing plans to ensure awareness and success of new store openings and store activations, as well as driving any tactical/seasonal activity and supporting local marketing opportunities. Working closely with various functions across the JD business including Retail, Operations, Merchandising, Property, VM, Social, Digital and Sports Marketing, the Retail Marketing team play a pivotal role in identifying opportunities to grow the UK & ROI business and continually strive to build marketing campaigns across all customer retail touchpoints and optimise campaign delivery through analysis of results.
About the role:
We are looking for Marketing Interns to join our team based in Bury HQ. The interns are a pivotal part of the team and will work and support across a variety of projects to deliver best in class campaigns.
As a marketing intern you will be responsible for
- Ensure smooth delivery (planning & coordination) of all assigned tasks (relevant, on time, on budget). Project scope may include but is not limited to organising photoshoots, events, integrated campaigns, calendar planning, sample coordination & handling, management of product for marketing projects.
- Working x-functionally with internal stakeholders and be responsible to develop excellent working relationships with all stakeholders, partners & market/regional teams.
- Understand the JD consumer in our key markets, know what is relevant to them in product and culture.
- Bring & share ideas with the team to enrich projects (including research, mood boards etc)
- Weekly reporting on retail KPIs and campaign performance.
- Coordinate and produce wrap reports for each project.
- Know and analyse the competition, sharing insight with wider teams.
- Utilise learnings, insights and knowledge gained on each project to inform and enhance each subsequent project.
- During your time in the team, you will have the opportunity to build your skills & learn more about our industry & the marketing function as well as the brands and partners we work with.
- Support the marketing team and heads of function on across any tasks required.
What we are looking for
- Someone who is currently studying a degree relevant to Marketing
- Someone with a passion for offline marketing
- Strong team player able to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communicator
- Mac/PC literate; good working knowledge of excel, word, keynote/ppt
- Good time management skills, able to prioritise, multitask and work to deadlines with excellent attention to detail
- Solutions-orientated with proven ability to use initiative to attain swift successful outcomes
- Creative flair
- Have a positive, can-do outlook
- Ability to be mobile to travel for shoots/production/work meeting etc
- Interest in sneaker culture, sports, music, fashion & youth culture
About JD Group
Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, JD Sports Fashion Plc is a leading international multichannel retailer of sports, fashion, and outdoor brands.
The Group has over 3,400 stores across 32 territories, despite the challenges of last few years, global revenues increased by 30% to £6.2 billion in 2021 and again by 39% to £8.6 billion in 2022.
Over 67,000+ people work within the Group all over the world. We attract the absolute best talent to our teams and acknowledge the continuation of this process as a key factor in the Group's evolution.
The Group is home to premium brands such as JD Sports, Size?, GO Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Footpatrol, Sprinter, Activinstinct & many more.
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