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    4. Digital Marketing Student Placement South Shields 2024
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    J. Barbour & Sons Ltd founded in 1894 is a British lifestyle brand, home to the iconic wax jacket we design ,manufacture and market stylish functional clothing and footwear for men, women and children inspired by the unique values of the British countryside. We are the proud holder of one Royal warrant, mostrecentlywehavecelebratedour125yearsandremaintruetoourcorevaluesasafifth- generation family business. Barbour is sold in over 40 countries worldwide, including Europe, the US and Japan but we have our headquarters and roots firmly located in the North East of England.

    Position Overview

    At Barbour, we are looking for a Student with a passion for Digital Marketing and Social Media to join our Digital Marketing team in the South Shields Head Office.Throughout the 12-month placement, the successful Student will play a key part in the Digital Marketing team by providing support to the team and managing specific projects to enable Barbour to support campaign delivery and engage our digital community.

    Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

    • Support the Digital Marketing team in their daily duties.
    • Carry out regular updates to the blog assisting in creating, building, and publishing blog content and the maintenance of content pages on brand websites.
      • Work with the ecommerce team to check product levels when planning and during influencer activations.
    • Support on the fulfilment of consumer competitions
      • Support on social activations including community support, social posting, and content collation.
    • Support Global Marketing on the production of digital tool kits.
    • Organise and dispatch competition prizes and influencer products.
    • Support Barbour People activity across the UK.
    • Carry out reporting on insights, competitors and social reactions as directed.
    • Input to activation planning and digital delivery.
    • Assist in daily admin tasks including dealing with enquiries via social, email and phone.

    Skills and Experience

    • Ability to work individually and within a team.
    • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
    • Pleasant and efficient telephone manner.
    • Strong organisational and time management ability, with the ability to prioritise tasks.
    • Tenacious individual with desire to go extra mile and demonstrate commitment to the role.
    • Attention to detail.
    • Comfortable working within a pressurised environment to achieve key deadlines.
    • Able to establish relationships with people at all levels.
    • Competent on Microsoft office packages, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

    Additional information

    • To apply for this placement, you must be currently studying an Undergraduate Sandwich Degree Course and able to undertake 12 months in industry as part of your course.

    Benefits

    • Staff discount
    • Staff shop
    • Free onsite parking
    • Subsidised canteen
    • 25 days holiday as standard (prorata’d to holiday year) plus bank holidays
    • Wellbeing support
    • Operate hybrid & flexible working
    • 4pm finish on a Friday