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Marketing Assistant
Start Date: a.s.a.p.
Duration: 6-12 months
The Host Company
Sheffield United is a professional English football club based in the city of Sheffield, South
Yorkshire. They club was formed in 1889 and they currently play in the English Football
League Championship. They were champions of England in 1897-98 and runners up in 189697 and 1899-1900, and FA Cup winners in 1899, 1902, 1915 and 1925, finishing runners up
in1901, and also eleven years after their cup final win in 1936.
The Placement
Sheffield United is looking for a student who has good experience in marketing or customer
service and is able to liaise and build relationships with external design companies, suppliers
and customers.
During the placement you will be maintaining an up to date competitor database and
marketing filing systems as well as managing stock levels for all marketing, sales literature
and compiling ad hoc reports for presentations and queries on products and prices are part of
your main duties.
Furthermore, you will be helping with organising and attending Open Days, Road shows,
Exhibitions and Events as and when required.
Promotion is a big part of this role as you are required to assist with the production of
advertisements, point of sale material, leaflets and merchandise. Also, you need to manage
social networking sites and develop other digital media channels. Duties such as analysing
and evaluating campaign effectiveness, copy writing for brochures, advertisements, press
releases and co-ordinating mail and other PR campaigns for events and monthly initiatives
are also required for this role.
The placement requires a student who is able to support the marketing manager, directors
and other colleagues.
Other tasks such as answering the telephone calls, emailing and website enquiries must be
carried out in a professional manner with contact details being recorded online with company
standards.
The main duties of this role are as followed:
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Demonstrate the value add to each sales campaign, through quantitative analysis
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Maintain Club Brand Values
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Utilise multiple communication channels – face to face, telephone, mail, internet,
mobile.
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Ongoing overview and development of Club brand (logo, font, collateral, email style,
etc)
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Co-ordinate appropriate Media & Advertising strategy and execute with local media
partners
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Co-ordination of club and 3rd party personnel for marketing activities and events
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Produce and Manage Club marketing calendar
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In conjunction with relevant managers, work with or manage all 3rd party software and
other agency or service providers as necessary to implement marketing strategy
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Production of professional presentations to support the business needs
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Liaise and attend meetings with other company functions necessary to perform duties
and aid business and organisational development. To take briefs from various
departments and develop campaigns to support annual sales and marketing
calendars
* The student may be asked to work on match days as and when required during the football
season.
The Ideal Student
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Perfect English written & spoken
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Excellent IT-Skills
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Relevant marketing knowledge
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Multi-task
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Ability to work under pressure
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Good communicational skills
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Attention to detail (English and Maths)
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Positive attitude
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Good organiser
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Willing to exceed expectations
Desirable is:
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Sports and leisure experience
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Working towards or in possession of a Marketing or Business degree
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Quark training
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Green Four training