Communications Intern Pathway 2025

Are you looking to develop your career in Communications? Do you want to work on world-leading brands, creative campaigns, and with some of the best marketing talent in the industry? Are you looking for a 1 year industrial placement internship from summer 2025 in London?

If so, we’re looking for Communications interns like you! Apply below to share your details and CV with us. If we’re a match, we’ll be in touch to discuss more.

What will you be doing?

We have three Communications internships in our London office, based in our UK domestic market business (‘Pernod Ricard UK’), our global scotch business (‘Chivas Brothers’), and our travel retail business (‘Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail’). In these roles, you will help to implement a comprehensive communications programme that includes:

• Internal communications and culture – helping deliver internal events, drafting and deploying internal communications across various internal channels and managing our internal communications calendar.
• Corporate communications - working with the Corporate Communications team and PR agencies to raise the profile of Pernod Ricard within the media via news stories, social media content and evaluating and reporting on campaigns.
• Brand PR – working with Marketing and Consumer PR teams to amplify our brands in the media through coverage, partnerships, etc
• Social & environmental sustainability – help manage corporate social engagement programmes to position Pernod Ricard as a responsible employer internally and externally.

Who are you? We’re looking for people who are:

• Completing a degree in any discipline from any UK university and with the ability to complete a year in industry from the summer of 2025.
  • We also welcome applications from recent graduates who are open to undertaking a year-long placement.
• Passionate about PR and communications
• Creative, consumer centric and plugged into cultural and digital trends
• Strong copywriters, able to convey complex information clearly and compellingly in writing
• Able to show high mental agility (intellectual curiosity, embracing complexity, managing multiple priorities) and high people agility (building relationships, working well with others, emotional intelligence)
• Able to demonstrate a track record of excellence or of achieving results

What do we offer?

• A global organisation with world-leading brands – we are the world #1 in premium spirits with over 240 premium brands available in over 160 countries.
• Fantastic opportunities to grow your career, in the UK and internationally – 50% of our UK positions are hired from within.
• A genuinely unique culture – we call it conviviality!
• Great benefits including private healthcare, 28 days’ holiday, free Wellbeing resources and a generous allowance in our staff shop!
• A socially-driven business, serious about Sustainability & Responsibility, Diversity & Inclusion and responsible drinking

Why join us? Check out these links to see some of the great work we’re doing, in Communications and beyond

• The latest news from our global scotch business, our domestic market business and our travel retail business
• Our culture-led brand collaboration such as Jameson x EFL (here and here), Ballentines support of True Music in our partnership with Boiler Room and Lillet x Emily in Paris.
• Our Sustainability and Responsibility commitments.
• Our recognition as a leading employer by Forbes and one of the World’s Best Companies by Time magazine.

Application process

• Stage 1: Online application and CV submission
• Stage 2: Blended assessment - includes a video interview
• Stage 3: Assessment centre

We operate a hybrid working policy and our experience has found that our interns get the most out of their time with us if they are spending minimum 3, ideally 4 days per week in the office. We therefore ask that all our interns agree to spend 3-4 days per week in the office.

At Pernod Ricard, we are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process—please let us know if you require any adjustments to support you through your application.