About the Role
As a Marketing Intern for Oakley & Bliz, you will support the marketing team in executing brand strategy and implementing marketing activities across Sports Hub Brands for the North Europe region.
Responsibilities
- Assist with Oakley and Bliz brand distribution in the region, managing new door applications and closure requests.
- Manage the door database, including monthly distribution reviews and analysis of new door openings and performance against quotas.
- Assist in the execution of all events, including brand immersions, trainings, trade conferences, promotional events, brand activations, and PR events.
- Prepare and deliver training presentations to the sales force.
- Create and manage purchase orders and track budgets for the portfolio.
- Manage showroom organization, including samples and layout, and align with the trade marketing team to update artwork.
- Manage incentives, including suggesting mechanics, forecasting and ordering stock, and ensuring deliveries to showrooms.
- Create the digital communications strategy for the sport hub and ensure brand guidelines are respected on marketing campaigns.
- Manage content uploads and creation of the ‘brand news’ section on SharePoint for the salesforce.
- Support amending and sending new collection presentations to stakeholders for new releases.
- Distribute weekly PR update reports to the salesforce, including quarterly trend analysis and assisting the PR team with activities amplifying brand-led initiatives.
- Download and manage in-store photographs and conduct market/store checks.
- Assist with ad-hoc administrative duties for the marketing department.
- Assist the sports marketing manager with athlete product requests for seeding.
- Manage the PR plan for the Bliz brand in alignment with the communications manager.
- Assist with and manage PR seeding in alignment with the communications manager.
- Assist the sports marketing manager with researching markets for new opportunities in event, league, and athlete partnerships.
Requirements
- Educated to degree-level.
- Proficient in Microsoft packages.
- Demonstrable organizational skills.
- Good spoken and written English.
- Experience in marketing.
- Demonstrable interest in marketing and the sports industry.
- Detail-oriented, proactive, and willing to go the extra mile in a dynamic environment.
- Strong interest and knowledge within sports and the categories that the brands are present in.
- Active team member, creating internal and external business partnerships, sharing ideas, and supporting team members and other company functions.
- Act as a guardian of the Culture, leading by example, maintaining focus on brand building and brand strategy.
- Demonstrate integrity and trustworthiness, according to company values: Passionate, Imaginative, Entrepreneurial, and Simple and Fast.
- Demonstrate outstanding brand/product knowledge, understanding and communicating brand histories, visions, and stories, as well as manufacturing superiority.
- Act as a brand ambassador.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and under pressure.
Skills
- Microsoft packages
- Organizational skills
- Spoken and written English
- Marketing
- Sports industry interest
- Detail-oriented
- Proactive
- Teamwork
- Brand building
- Brand strategy
- Brand/product knowledge
- Communication
Location
- London
Work Type
- Internship
Experience Level
- Intern
Education Level
- Degree level
About the Company
- EssilorLuxottica is a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of ophthalmic lenses, frames and sunglasses.
- The Company combines advanced lens technologies with craftsmanship of iconic eyewear.
- It is a vertically integrated business addressing the world’s evolving vision needs and the global demand of a growing eyewear industry.
- With over 180,000 employees in 150 countries, the company drives iconic brands.
- Employees are creative, entrepreneurial and celebrated for their unique perspectives and individuality.
- Committed to vision, EssilorLuxottica enables people to “see more and be more” through innovative designs, lens technologies, exceptional quality, and cutting-edge processing methods.
- The company impacts millions of lives daily by changing how people see the world.
