CRM Placement Student 2025

Type: Early Careers Programme
Region: South East

It’s not about cars. It’s about people. Our human-centric focus is what makes us different from all other car companies, and it’s at the heart of everything we create. If you want to join us in our mission to build and grow our teams with talented people who want to make a true difference.

What’s in it for you?

People are at the heart of our business. We want you to innovate, challenge and build a future career at Volvo Cars. In return we offer a salary of £23,000 per annum, flexible working hours, plus some hybrid working based on the team structure, and 22 days annual leave plus 4 fixed and 4 flexible bank holidays which you can use to support your personal beliefs at any time of the year. Health & wellbeing initiatives, charitable giving days alongside personal growth and career development opportunities. In addition, we offer a fast-track opportunity at the end of your qualification into key business areas, and access to ongoing support from industry-leading experts, backed by continual learning opportunities.

What you’ll do

During your placement, you will provide support to subject matter experts within the team as they make key strategic decisions that will shape the future of Volvo Car UK. You’ll contribute significantly to the success and future of the brand by delivering fresh ideas and viewpoints and challenging current assumptions to meet the needs of future customers – so an innovative mindset is essential. We are currently recruiting for an organised, ambitious and driven 12-month placement student within our fast-paced Marketing Communication Team, to join us from July 2025, as a CRM Marketing Placement Student.

Reporting to a Campaigns Marketing Manager you will be responsible for providing a variety of administrative, process management, and campaign delivery support. This role is vital for the smooth running of CRM activity, and you will be involved with the creation and delivery of key tactical and brand marketing campaigns and programmes within marketing.

You will gain valuable skills and experience in key aspects of Marketing and Customer Communications including;

• Implementation of local and global CRM campaigns and programmes – monitoring performance and developing opportunities to increase engagement.
• Build relationships with key Central stakeholders, sharing suggestions for process and campaign improvements.
• Knowledge and experience of using marketing systems and processes to successfully manage and deliver CRM communications – Salesforce, Catalyst, PowerBi
• Gain an understanding of wider Marketing communications co-ordinating activity for campaigns with the marketing team as necessary.
• Attain a detailed understanding of CRM activities and projects by supporting the Campaigns Manager with new initiatives and campaign reporting.

Do you fit the profile?

You will have a real interest in customer communications and campaign delivery, along with the curiosity to understand content development and challenges to deliver innovative solutions. To be successful in this role you will have:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A curious mindset with a passion for understanding the detail
• The ability to manage multiple tasks
• The confidence to lead stakeholder meetings
• Ambition to drive the future development of process change
• Great organisational and time management skills
• Be comfortable prioritising workload to meet deadlines
• High attention to detail
• A passion for delivering quality work
• The ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a small team
• Be keen to develop your skillset

You will be currently studying towards a sandwich degree in Marketing Communications, Digital Marketing or a related subject, you will be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.

How to learn more and apply

Our placement is open to any university student who is in their penultimate year of a sandwich course (those who will be returning to their final year of study after their placement with us). We have a duty of care to our people and wouldn’t want you to spend a large amount of time commuting, so we require our undergraduates to be based within a reasonable radius of our Maidenhead office, able to commute reliably when needed.

Once you have applied, we’ll review your details, and if successful we’ll be in touch to discuss with you further. You’ll be sent an online competency assessment relevant to the role for which you are applying. Upon successful completion, we will invite you to an Assessment Centre in Maidenhead, which will be held on Monday 21st October 2024, where you will meet the hiring manager, view what our workplace has to offer, meet the team and answer any questions that you may have. Please only apply if you are available on this date. A decision will be made shortly after. To support you we will also contribute to your travel expenses up to a certain amount, which we can discuss in more detail if you have been invited to our Assessment Centre.

We do not accept email applications due to GDPR. Please apply via the link provided in this job advertisement by Monday 7th October 2024. We reserve the right to close this job advert early if we successfully find the placement students suitable.