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A brand-new placement programme to Gymshark, the Brand Marketing placement student will become an integral part of the Gymshark commercial department team. Your mission will be to ensure we are delivering a consistent, well thought out cross-channel marketing experience for our customers. Aligning our marketing across the board and ensuring every touchpoint of the brand is considered.
Our marketing team is agile, working on a variety of campaigns and strategies that impacts the growth and success of Gymshark daily. We work across all regions globally and consist of a variety of channels - from CRM to paid social, search and digital content.
When you work for us, you’re more than a placement student – you’ll join our Gymshark family. We give people the tools they need to reach further, go faster and be the best version of themselves. We work hard, sure, but we have fun while we do it.
Placement Start Date: 1st July, 2024
Placement Duration: 13 Months
Location: Solihull, UK
Closing Date: Sunday 17th December, Midnight (applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment)
Assessment Centre Date: 29th February 2024 (at Gymshark HQ, Solihull)
What you’ll learn
You will gain experience in:
- What an end to end creative and marketing process looks like and how it operates.
- The planning of a marketing calendar.
- How to create a marketing strategy that allows all our channel teams to plan into.
- Campaign brief writing that focuses creatives and shapes marketing.
- How to effectively segment audiences across campaigns.
- How to optimise campaigns as they run to gain the best outcomes possible.
- Take learnings from a campaign, cascade those key learnings around the business to ensure there is continual learnings.
What you’ll need
We’re not about box-ticking, a placement year is about developing you. To be successful for a placement at Gymshark, you will:
- Be passionate about learning and developing your skills
- Be an effective communicator
- Work successfully within a team environment and independently
- Have good relationship building skills
- Be able to manage and prioritise your time effectively
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment.
To be successful for a Brand Marketing placement with us, you will have:
- A keen interest in consumer marketing and retail.
- An understanding of a full funnel marketing approach.
- Confidence to work on a number of projects, with a broad range of stakeholders.
- A passion to understand customers and consider them at every stage of the marketing funnel.
What you’ll get
We offer a diverse and inclusive culture, a supportive and sociable work environment, plus ample opportunities for professional growth, development, and networking. Plus, just to mention some of our perks:
- 🌴 25 days holidays + your birthday and all the Bank Holidays which can be substituted and taken whenever you want.
- 🙌A tailored and individualised placement approach
- 💻 A truly Flexible Working Culture
- 👥 A collaborative, creative and inspiring working environment
- 🦈 50% Gymshark Discount
- 🥇 Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
- 📚 Great Training and Learning Resources
- 🖥 Choice of hardware and access to the best software
- 🤒 Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
- 🍎 Refuel - Healthy fresh food at GSHQ
- 🏋️♂️ Lifting Club (LC) Gym Membership
- 👉 Free monthly massages
Ready to apply?
Application Outcomes: End of January
If successful, you will be invited to complete a video/phone interview so we can get to know the person behind the application.
Video/Phone Interview Outcome: Mid-February
If successful, you will be invited to an in-person assessment centre at Gymshark HQ, Solihull, on 29th February 2024
To be eligible, you must
- ✅ Be currently studying an undergraduate degree at university
- ✅ Be able to take 13 months out to do a year in industry before going back for your final year
- ✅ Have the right to work in the UK (unfortunately we cannot provide sponsorship for placement students)
- ✅ Be happy to work from our HQ campus in Solihull, West Midlands
- ✅ Be ready to start from July 2024
About us
We’re here to unite the conditioning community. We believe that putting the sweat in today, prepares us for tomorrow. So, we give people the tools they need to reach further, go faster, be stronger. We celebrate those who show up – for themselves – to be their physical or mental best, whatever that means for them.
It’s what we want for our community, and our team. A team that’s growing rapidly around the world. A collective of talented individuals working together to invent Gymshark’s future. Our plans are ambitious, and we’re looking for people who want to join us for the ride – our growth will be your growth.
Belonging at Gymshark
Our mission is to be a place where everyone belongs. We’re an equal opportunities employer, and for us that means we always strive to be as inclusive as possible in all aspects of employment, right from your application. We’re committed to finding reasonable adjustments* for candidates with specific needs or have a disability during our recruitment process, and all applicants will be considered fairly and equally. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. *If you’d like to request a reasonable adjustment please email talent@gymshark.com.
