You lead the way. We’ve got your back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

About marketing

As marketers at one of the most iconic brands in the world, we play a major role in building authentic relationships with customers who impact life and business around the world. Here, creativity and inspired storytelling combine with powerful data-based marketing and hyper-personalized digital communication to create a genuine human connection that drives business results.

As a part of our diverse community of marketers, you can have a breadth of different marketing experiences and do virtually anything from connecting small businesses to new customers to uncovering insights that inspire the future of payments. Create a dynamic career while doing work that matters for people and businesses everywhere. Find your place in marketing on #TeamAmex.

Business unit specific information

This Marketing Internship sits within the GNS Product, Marketing and Global Businesses (PMGB) team, which is a part of the Global Network Services (GNS) business. GNS operates in all regions globally to drive scale and relevance for the American Express Brand by partnering with external banks and financial institutions.

Through this Marketing Internship, you’ll have the opportunity to craft real life product and marketing strategies to help to expand our Network business. You could be engaging with top creative agencies on brand executions, driving digital card acquisition, or working on global product and benefit strategies trying to bring them to life with your own ideas.

All of this will be done using market and consumer, evaluating the external landscape, and analyzing internal data to identify trends. So, if you’re someone who can use data constructively and come up with winning strategies, then this internship could be for you.

Our well-established Summer Internship Programme provides high-performing MBA students with exciting projects aligned to the company’s strategic, operational, or financial goals. Interns will work on a challenging project, learn about our award-winning culture and network across our diverse business units and regions.

About you

Skills & experience

  • Strong critical and strategic thinking skills, able to approach complex problems with logic and rigour.
  • Ability to think analytically, comfortable analyzing and interpreting data to identify trends and drive insights.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability and confidence to influence senior leaders.
  • Ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners, and present ideas in a compelling way.
  • Flexible self starter who can work with limited supervision. Comfort with ambiguity in a fast paced and dynamic culture.
  • Experience working on global projects and with business partners in multiple countries.
  • Overall intellectual curiosity and ability to identify opportunities and solve problems.
  • Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Requirements & qualifications

  • Currently enrolled in a Fulltime MBA programme.
  • Students must have a graduation date between December 2025 and July 2026.
  • This role will be based in London, United Kingdom.

Apply now

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Our team will review completed applications on a rolling basis. We appreciate your patience while we consider your application.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

The final application deadline is sunday 26th january 2025.

What we offer

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

  • Competitive base salaries
  • Bonus incentives
  • Support for financial-well-being and retirement
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
  • Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
  • Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
  • Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
  • Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
  • Career development and training opportunities

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.