Marketing Intern - Leeds

Are you a self-starter who loves getting creative? Do you have excellent written communication skills and are eager to help a brand get its voice heard? 

Maybe you don’t have much formal marketing experience, but you’re bursting with ideas, you’re a fast learner and you always meet your deadlines.  

We’re looking for someone who wants to gain foothold in the marketing sector and are looking to support their career growth. We also specialize in Marketing recruitment, and recruit for a variety of well-known businesses, so you’ll gain fantastic exposure to the sector as a whole. 

The overall purpose of the role:  

To drive business growth by attracting clients and candidates to the company website, encouraging them to register their details and apply to our vacancies. 

To grow the brand name by gaining credibility through email campaigns and social media growth, posting content that adds value to the reader. 

Key tasks: 

Manage all social media channels, scheduling content using Hootsuite 

Curate interesting articles that are relevant to our hiring sectors to share on social media 

Create monthly email campaigns for our CRM audience using MailChimp 

Seek opportunities to continually learn new marketing skills 

Create social media content using designs on Canva 

Measure social media insights on a monthly basis 

Measure website insights using Google Analytics 

Generate ideas for blogs that will add value to our audience 

Run paid social adverts where appropriate using Facebook Ad Manager 

Write job advertisements for roles on our website  

Ensure all vacancies are live on our website and job boards 

An ideal Candidate  

Organizational skills are a must 

Excellent at written communication  

Creative 

Can prioritize workload 

Someone comfortable working on more than one task at a time 

A self-starter who can generate ideas without instruction 

Someone who can see the ‘bigger picture’ 

Our previous Marketing intern was promoted and became our current Marketing Executive. Here’s what she has to say about her time with us: 

“I joined the business as a Marketing intern, working a few days a week for one month in 2018 before being offered the Marketing Executive position that I’m currently in. I joined the business with a very limited amount of marketing experience and so the opportunity was enormously useful to learn new marketing tools and gain in confidence before taking on the responsibility of a paid role. I’ve increased my knowledge and skills in Marketing ten-fold since joining the business.” 

“Because Parker Young is a start-up company, there has always been plenty of freedom for creative flair and with no red tape, there is lots of opportunity to trial innovative content ideas provided you always keep the brand voice and company values in mind. I’ve learned and utilized software such as Canva, Hootsuite, Google Analytics, MailChimp, Facebook Ad Manager/ Facebook Pixel, all of which were new to me upon starting my internship. Working in a small team means you are viewed as an individual, not a number and are thus provided plenty of support. There is also allowance for you to take time for any training you feel would help you grow as a marketer. The opportunity was great to learn about both Marketing and Recruitment and achieved the ultimate goal of an internship, which is, of course, to find a permanent position.”