Are you looking to develop your career in Marketing? 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 Marketing 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?
You could be working for any one of our 4 businesses in London:
- In our UK domestic market business ('Pernod Ricard UK'), you’ll be part of a team of 45 marketers, developing and delivering the most engaging, creative and effective campaigns to put our brands in the hands of the UK consumer.
- In our global scotch business ('Chivas Brothers'), you’ll be the guardian of some of our biggest global brands, developing communication campaigns and marketing strategies to be implemented by our local markets across the world.
- In our travel retail business ('Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail'), you will market our brands to the discerning global traveller.
- In our global gin business (‘The Absolut Group’, Gin Business Unit), you could be shaping the future of the Gin category on major brands such as Beefeater and emerging household names like Malfy or Monkey47.
By applying to this stream, you could be considered for any of the above positions. You will be able to share a preference during the interview process.
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 marketing and brands
- Creative, consumer centric and plugged into cultural and digital trends
- 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 Marketing and beyond
- Our standout marketing campaigns on Absolut (here and here), Malibu’sDon’t Drink and Dive campaignwith Tom Daley,and how we #BreakTheStereotype of Whisky by hacking the Google search algorithm!
- Our culture-led brand collaborations such as Jameson x EFL (here and here), Ballantines 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.
