Marketing Assistant Intern - Healthcare Marketing Agency

Company
Establishing in 1992, this company works in editorial syndication and licensing of media, operating internationally through a global network. Clients and partners include BBC Worldwide magazines, Jamie Oliver, Haymarket Media, Dazed & Confused, Pearsons and The UK Press Association. 

Sectors

• Audio visual media content rights sales
• Book, magazine, newspaper and digital content rights sales
• Consumer and educational publishing 
• Translation 

Opportunity 
A unique opportunity to become familiar with all aspects of the international media industry. The right candidate will be introduced to rights sales models for all types of editorial content and media: including free to air TV and on demand video content and print and digital books, magazines, newspapers and editorial platforms. 
 
Your manager
The manager is a dynamic, entrepreneurial professional with 28 years’ global new business and management experience.  He has delivered deals in 60 countries, generating revenues of $70M for leading media groups across all continents. 

TASKS
Assisting with Publishing Clients

• Maintain knowledge of client products. For publishers confirm which books or magazines are available by territory. For educational platforms understand how they operate, the services offered and how to effectively demo their software to companies. 
• Maintain knowledge of all client brochures and marketing materials and as required and practical, create local language marketing materials. 
• Help track the percentage the company retains from sales of client products. 
• As required request print and PDF samples of client products and web demo passwords and update as appropriate on interest in their products.

 
Industry and Territory Knowledge 

• Gain understanding of software and copyright licensing agreements and deal structures.
• Research your territory’s leading children’s, educational and ELT (English Language Teaching) publishers and distributors and as required magazine publishers, learning institutions and related companies/non-publishing companies requiring content.
• Identify most popular material in the territory and the material clients require. 
• Decide territory potential for products by researching market trends, including book print runs, cover prices, market growth/decline etc.
• Research market conditions, including all socio-economic and educational factors, birth rates, GDP, English learning popularity etc.

 
Administrative Duties and Knowledge

• Ensure familiarity with company CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system, Gmail/Google Drive and folder structure/location of files and information in Google Drive.
• Enter all client details and marketing activities contemporaneously in CRM system. 
• Download and upload client samples into Google Drive folders. 
• Update all spreadsheets as required.

 
Translation

• Translate emails and correspondence.
• Provide details of heads of contract terms in territory language.
• Provide details of products and marketing materials in territory language.

 
Sales and Negotiation

• Identify best person to contact at companies targeted (i.e. rights manager, publisher, managing director).
• Contact companies identified as suitable for client products by phone and email.
• Explain products and provide full product information (i.e. catalogues, links to PDF samples, print samples). 
• Follow up interest in products, tracking all actions in CRM and setting deadlines for decisions about licensing products.
• Create and maintain deal/revenue projections using CRM and excel spreadsheets.
• Negotiate fees and as required help with negotiating contract terms to expedite reaching agreement. 

 
Skills required

• Excellent communicator.
• A good understanding of written and spoken English.
• Good IT skills, including ability to quickly grasp new programmes such as G Suite, Pipedrive (Customer Relationship Management system) etc.
• Good research and resourcing skills.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to generate new ideas and innovative ways of working.
• Fast learner.
• Ambitious and dynamic.

Start date
Immediate 

Duration
2 to 3 months. 
 
Hours
Part time or full time.

Communication
Twice weekly Zoom meeting.
24/7 (when awake!) availability to discuss matters by email or IM via skype.  

Opportunities to active English skills

• Writing emails 
• Spoken communication during weekly catch up meetings 
• Comprehension skills through online research and reading 

Skills developed
Experience of a range of tools including:

• Pipedrive
• G Suite

 
Soft skills including:

• Time management and planning
• International business cultural differences and special requirements
• Writing business emails 
• Marketing and sales strategies 
• Research and sourcing

Added benefits
Expand network within the media industry
 
Provided on successful completion of internship

• Reference letter on Company Headed paper
• LinkedIn Recommendation
• Certificate (Professionals Global)

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