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Virgin Holidays Marketing Student Placement

Thought I'd share for anyone who hasn't sorted a placement yet - closes next week!

https://gs19.globalsuccessor.com/fe/tpl_virgin03.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=131874,8248824822&key=70907762&c=654922795436&pagestamp=sedpkpydbmeyijpvhd


Ref133366LocationCrawley, West Sussex Contract TypeFixed TermSalary rangeJob TypeMarketing
Salary: Competitive
Contract: 12 months fixed term
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Mon - Fri 09:00 - 17:30

Location: VHQ, Crawley, West Sussex
Closing date: 23 April 2017 ***The assessment centre for this role is due to take place on Friday 28th April***



In a nutshell
To assist the Marketing team to ensure delivery of all peak campaigns & BAU activity (where required).


Day to day

Supporting the brand and campaigns team to deliver the annual campaigns, from briefing creative to delivering assets, with a focus on all above the line channels (press, OOH, radio, TV, VOD).
Working with relevant media agencies and other 3rd parties during key campaign periods, attending and contributing to all weekly meetings.
Owning your own part of the campaign from brief to delivery.
Brief the Creative Team Supervisor any creative for design requirements (out of home, press & digital).
Working with the internal design team to ensure all media is on brand and delivered on time.
Liaising with third parties to ensure sign-off of all campaign activity.
Highlighting any up and coming trends in the market which we can take learnings from.
Support the retail/trading team with planning and execution across all work streams.
Ensuring retail estate marketing collateral is current, together with assistance of retail activations and store activity.
Working with the creative team to develop solutions for tactical trading campaigns.
Assist the performance marketing executives with planning and execution within all performance marketing channels (PPC, display, SEO and VOD).
Support with the analysis of all performance marketing channels through the use of attribution and other analytics tools.
Support the Social Media Executive with the creation and delivery of always-on content and activity.
Support with weekly and monthly reporting on social media by using analytics and listening tools and also assist with the quarterly report.
Schedule approved Twitter, Facebook and Instagram posts.
Suggest new ideas to engage our audience across social channels and work with our in-house creative team to produce original content.


About you
As a student currently studying in a marketing, communications, economics or business discipline you'll have a passion for learning about brand strategy, campaign planning and media buying. You'll have excellent communication and relationship building skills with the ability to multi-task and work across a variety of projects in several different business areas. It is important to us that you are customer focussed with a good eye for detail and adept at working to strict deadlines and often under pressure. You'll also need to be an innovative problem solver, creative thinker and have tact and diplomacy coupled with excellent organisation and project management skills. If the requirements above sound like you, we'd would welcome an application from you for this unique oppurtunity.


The perks


Our pioneering spirit and passion keeps our brand vibrantly alive. That's why we give our people the rewards that they deserve. We have a whole host of benefits in place to help you enjoy life to the full, as well as a world of travel opportunities including up to seven flights a year to a wide range of fabulous Virgin Atlantic global destinations. Beyond a whole world of travel opportunities, we also offer a competitive benefits package including pension and private medical schemes, life assurance, child care vouchers and excellent discounts across the Virgin Group of companies.

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