The Barbour story began in 1894 in South Shields in the North East of England. Founder John Barbour began supplying oilskins and other garments to protect the growing community of sailors, fishermen and dockers. Still family owned and now fifth generation, Barbour HQ remains in South Shields. Under the leadership of Chairman Dame Margaret Barbour, Barbour has grown into a lifestyle brand sold in over 55 countries worldwide including Europe, the US and Asia offering a wardrobe of stylish functional clothing, footwear and accessories inspired by the unique values of the British countryside. The iconic Barbour Bedale and Barbour Beaufort wax jackets continue to be made by hand in the factory in South Shields. In 2020, Barbour launched Wax for Life, an overarching name for all of Barbour’s wax services designed to encourage customers to extend the life of their wax garments. Wax for Life includes re-waxing and repairs (first introduced in 1921) and Barbour Re-Loved an upcycling circularity initiative. Each year over 70,000 wax garments are sent back to Barbour globally to be repaired, rewaxed or altered.
Position overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a student to join our Digital Marketing team here at our Head Office in South Shields in a 12-month Student Placement. This role will be key to providing support to the Digital Marketing team and managing specific projects to enable Barbour to support campaign delivery and engage our digital community.
Essential duties and responsibilities
- Support the Digital Marketing team in their daily duties.
- Carry out regular updates to the blog assisting in creating, building, and publishing blog content and the maintenance of content pages on brand websites.
- Work with the ecommerce team to check product levels when planning and during influencer activations.
- Support on the fulfilment of consumer competitions
- Support on social activations including community support, social posting, and content collation.
- Support Global Marketing on the production of digital toolkits.
- Organise and dispatch competition prizes and influencer products.
- Support Barbour People activity across the UK.
- Carry out reporting on insights, competitors and social reactions as directed.
- Input to activation planning and digital delivery.
- Assist in daily admin tasks including dealing with enquiries via social, email and phone.
Skills and experience
- Ability to work individually and within a team.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Pleasant and efficient telephone manner
- Strong organisational and time management ability, with the ability to prioritise tasks.
- Tenacious individual with desire to go extra mile and demonstrate commitment to the role.
- Attention to detail.
- Comfortable working within a pressurised environment to achieve key deadlines.
- Able to establish relationships with people at all levels.
- Competent on Microsoft office packages, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
Benefits
- Discretionary Company bonus scheme
- Staff Discount
- Staff Shop
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- 25 days holiday as standard increasing with length of service plus bank holidays (prorata’d to contract length / time in holiday year.
- Access to training and development activities to support your career development
- Free onsite parking
- Subsidised canteen
- Operate hybrid & flexible working
- 4pm finish on a Friday
- Wellbeing support
Additional information
- To apply for this placement, you must be currently studying an Undergraduate Sandwich Degree Course and able to undertake 12 months in industry as part of your course.
Note: In the event that a sufficient volume of suitable applications are received, the post may close prior to the specified closing date. Please apply as soon as possible if interested.
