CB - Sales and Marketing Role

Placement:CB - Sales and Marketing Role
Placement Location:Derby
Application Deadline:31st March 2012

Vacancy Description

Start Date: January 2012
Duration: 5-6 months.

The Host Company

The host company has been in operation since 1991 and provides software services and solutions to organisations across a range of sectors, both public and private. The company is located in Derby and has developed a respectable reputation. They offer their clients solutions to assess, monitor, benchmark, track and test their employees, for example during periods of training. These software solutions are intended to present the company's clients with a recognised standard for realising the true value of their workforce, enabling business talent to be valued, measured and exchanged.

The Placement

The host company are looking for an international student to take part in a varied and dynamic internship for between 5 and 6 months. This placement opportunity is a great chance to enhance any CV and allows potential for career development in the future. The successful applicant will be involved in a role that covers a large number of areas closely related to business studies like sales, marketing, research, client administration and exhibiting.

The role will involve communicating with both current and potential customers via a range of different communication methods, including telephone, email, direct mail, networking events and exhibitions.

As well as building and maintaining client relationships, the student will be required to carry out strategic research that is intended to uncover information leading to the creation of sales strategies.

The student will also be responsible for analysing appropriate advertising and marketing opportunities and presenting cost versus benefits analysis to decision makers.

There will be a strong marketing focus to the placement, with particular social media marketing of particular importance. Therefore candidates should have some experience with social networking sites such as Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter. It would also be advantageous if applicants had some experience with photography and video production, but this is not essential.

In addition to these responsibilities the student will be involved in the improvement and maintenance of electronic contact management databases, preparing sales reports, organising sales meetings, and the preparation for exhibitions and conferences.

The Ideal Student

  • Fluent in Spoken and written English
  • Experienced in spreadsheets and databases (ideally, although not essential)
  • Confident
  • Good Communicator
  • Marketing knowledge - social media, photography, video production