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    4. B2B Marketing Placement Uxbridge 2024
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    This role is a hybrid working role based out of Canon UK’s Head Office in Uxbridge.

    As one of the three Marketing Industrial Placement students in Canon’s B2B Marketing team for Canon UK&I, you will be carrying out a variety of tasks to help implement, monitor, and evaluate marketing activity.

    Supporting your business area in either Product, Channel or Demand Generation Marketing, you will help achieve marketing, sales, and company objectives. You will have the drive and enthusiasm to make a difference, utilising your academic learning in a corporate setting.

    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.

    We need people who can achieve the exceptional by working collaboratively, who have the courage to risk new ways of doing things and the ability to see the world the way their customers see it. We are looking for creative problem solvers like you, someone who can ensure Canon stays ahead in an ever-changing world.

    You will be assigned specific tasks as well as defined projects, which are based upon current 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 objectives, you will solicit feedback, design, and execute project plans, identify measures of success, and generate ideas for improvement. All the time having a commercial mind set, your innovative thinking will allow you to demonstrate your passion in developing robust marketing concepts.

    In some instances, you will represent Canon and will need to have confidence interfacing with customers and a desire to deliver excellent customer service. Being a team member means you will also be part of a project team and can learn about best practice and for you to share your ideas in a compelling way. Working in collaboration you will provide additional support to the team on marketing activities as required.

    Be assigned specific tasks as well as defined projects, which are based upon current 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 objectives, you will solicit feedback, design and execute project plans, identify measures of success and generate ideas for improvement. All the time having a commercial mind set, your innovative thinking will allow you to demonstrate your passion in developing robust marketing concepts.
    • In some instances, you will represent Canon and will need to have confidence interfacing with customers and a desire to deliver excellent customer service. Being a team member means you will also be part of a project team and can learn about best practice and for you to share your ideas in a compelling way. Working in collaboration you will provide additional support to the team on marketing activities as required.
    • You will need be numerical and analytical with good attention to detail. Possessing excellent organisational skills, your project planning skills will be advanced including an ability to provide project updates when asked. An ability to work under pressure, you will have high energy levels 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.

    What we ask

    • To become part of the B2B Marketing Industrial Placement 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.
    • You will be 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.

    Qualifications

    Canon would be interested in those with a predicted 2:1 level degree or equivalent in a business/marketing related degree, but you must have a minimum of B grade in GCSE in 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.