Burson is the global communications leader built to create value for clients through reputation. With highly specialized teams, industry-leading technologies and breakthrough creative, we help brands and businesses redefine reputation as a competitive advantage so they can lead today and into the future. Burson is part of WPP, the creative transformation company.
What makes us Burson
We have an opportunity for an Intern to join our fast-growing Financial + Professional Services team in London. This team is like an agile financial services boutique agency embedded in one of the UK's most renowned communication consultancies.
Our 20 plus financial and professional services consultants have a deep understanding of their sectors gained from working with a wide range of financial services brands – retail banks, savings providers, investment banks, management consultants, payments specialists, credit reference agencies and insurers among them.
We take pride in delivering best in class creative work, while recognising the human element in creating the optimum environment for this. You will see your ambition rewarded and spurred on by managers and colleagues, with plenty of opportunity for personal development and growth.
Our friendly and welcoming team has a mix of clients spanning sizes and borders. Some of our current clients include Equifax, HSBC, Standard Bank, First Direct, Bain, and Clifford Chance.
Your role as a Burson person
- The opportunity to develop your communications career within a full-service and internationally networked PR consultancy with all the opportunities and wider benefits you would expect.
- The opportunity to work on huge campaigns for some of the world's biggest and most exciting brands.
- The opportunity to hone your skills across media relations, public affairs, corporate communications, social media and content generation.
- Breadth of learning opportunities working across the Burson business with our experts in areas such as consumer brands, internal comms, crisis + issues management, behavioural science and digital and content production.
- Be part of a close-knit, highly motivated team, where culture matters, creativity is encouraged, and engagement and cooperation are common values.
- Our dedicated, industry-leading training academy The Hub which provides a breadth of skills enabling our people to take ownership of their career development.
You'll bring along with you
The successful candidate will be bright, ambitious, and hard-working. Experience working in comms, PR, public affairs, or social media is helpful, but not essential.
More important is a passion for communications, overall smarts, and high levels of intellectual curiosity. We'd expect you to be able to demonstrate an interest in the current issues affecting business, financial services, journalism and politics.
A good knowledge of social media and Microsoft Office is an advantage, as is being a confident self-starter with a proactive approach.
Your role as a Burson person
- The opportunity to develop your communications career within a full-service and internationally networked PR consultancy with all the opportunities and wider benefits you would expect.
- The opportunity to work on huge campaigns for some of the world's biggest and most exciting brands.
- The opportunity to hone your skills across media relations, public affairs, corporate communications, social media and content generation.
- Breadth of learning opportunities working across the Burson business with our experts in areas such as consumer brands, internal comms, crisis + issues management, behavioural science and digital and content production.
- Be part of a close-knit, highly motivated team, where culture matters, creativity is encouraged, and engagement and cooperation are common values.
- Our dedicated, industry-leading training academy The Hub which provides a breadth of skills enabling our people to take ownership of their career development.
Our london office
Burson employs over 450 people in the UK, and our stunning Southwark offices run over two floors as part of the larger WPP Campus, Rose Court. We have access to a beautiful roof terrace with panoramic views across London and a bar/restaurant area, which is a great spot for client meetings and socialising with the wider agency and other WPP OpCo's.
Key Burson benefits
- 25 days holiday per year. After 3 years continuous service the entitlement will rise by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30 days after 7 years
- Flexible Public Holidays – you can swap public holidays for days of personal significance.
- Group life assurance scheme (4x basic salary).
- Discounted dental and travel insurance
- Full access to Headspace app
- Westfield Health Cash Plan
- Matched pension contributions
- Comprehensive private medical care
- Enhanced maternity & paternity schemes (after one years' service).
At Burson, diversity, equity and inclusion are not just values; they are strategic imperatives that fuel our future in an industry built on the art of understanding, connecting and developing relationships. We believe that a diverse workforce is essential for inspiring bold ideas, fostering constructive dialogue and cultivating meaningful experiences that drive innovation and creativity. It also enables our agency to thrive and deliver brilliant work.
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