LOCATION: Milton Keynes

CLOSING DATE: 16th December 2022

SALARY: £20,000 per annum, 27 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, loan car scheme, pension and a discretionary bonus.

CONTRACT: June 2023 - June 2024

We have three Marketing Placement opportunities and you will work across a number of different marketing teams. It’s an exciting opportunity for a future Marketing professional to play a vital role in helping shape the customer journey to grow our portfolio and support the Volkswagen Group brands

Marketing Executive Undergraduate: Partnering closely with internal stakeholders, the Marketing team works across all mediums from traditional media including TV & Radio through to more specialist Digital channels. Never quiet and always challenging, if you are interested in a career in marketing it is a rewarding and exciting role to undertake during your placement year. As a key member of the Marketing team, our Marketing Undergraduate has a range of responsibilities. You could be creating clear and concise briefs for marketing jobs and project manage these through content creation, proof reading and stakeholder approval. Alongside agency and supplier management to ensure tasks are delivered on time and to budget. You will also prepare retailer communications from approval to publication.

You have the opportunity to support the Marketing Managers in the delivery of their brand materials and attend regular meetings with the brands and internal stakeholders. Proactively review stock reports for point of sale and merchandise, assisting the team with reprints and artwork amends to ensure stock is always available

Fleet Marketing Undergraduate: You will have the opportunity to work within our Fleet department, where we manage companies who lease our vehicles for business purposes

The role is diverse, covering all areas of Marketing: Insight, planning, product development, marketing communications, events and customer relationship management. This placement truly suits a huge variety of degrees and can really offer the right student whatever it is they want to take away from it!

You will conduct regular customer, competitor and market insight reports for Sales and Marketing and support the go-to-market plans for key product launches, product communications and proposition development. You will further support the team with the execution of marketing activities that drive growth for the business, supporting the execution of a full spectrum of marketing campaign channels.

You will also assist with the organisation of internal and external events and the management of agency relationships and sponsorships

What can you bring with you?

• You will be enrolled at a University which offers a 1 year industrial placement
• Have a proven record of academic success with an interest in marketing
• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to deal with a variety of tasks
• You have a keen eye for detail and accuracy
• You use your own initiative to solve problems and answer queries
• Able to research and pull information together to support projects and other initiatives
• You will be able to communicate clearly with the business both verbally and in writing
• MS Office proficiency, especially Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• You are able to analyse, interpret data and communicate your findings

What we can offer you:

• Salary of £20,000 per annum plus discretionary bonus and company pension scheme
• A wealth of experience for your future career
• A fun and sociable workplace to start your career - You’ll be joining a cohort of 48 undergraduates so you’ll have a large group of colleagues so that you can support each other throughout your placement year
• Participate in Life Skills workshops, designed specifically for our Undergraduates
• Access to a discounted loan car scheme
• Chance to make a difference in the local community with various volunteering opportunities
• Onsite Wellbeing Centre to support physical and mental health
• Hybrid blend of working at our office based in Milton Keynes and working from home

What to expect from the assessment process:

Once you have hit the apply button, you will be asked to complete multiple-choice questions to supplement your application. We’ll be in touch shortly after receiving your application to advise if you have been successful to complete an online video interview for you to tell us more about yourself. After completing your video interview, if successful, your final step in the journey will be for you to attend a virtual assessment centre, where there will be a Competency Based Interview, a Presentation and a Group Exercise. We will provide you with appropriate support and guidance prior to attending. You will also have the opportunity to meet some of our managers as well as our current Undergraduates. This process is designed to help both of us to work out if a placement here is the best next step for you.

About Volkswagen Financial Services

Our mission is straight forward, we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. What does that mean? To make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by offering a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from everyone. Diversity and Inclusion is not just a statement for us and we are nurturing an environment where everyone can be their 100% self. If there is anything we can do to support you being your 100% self during our recruitment process, please let us know and we will support you as best we can.