Lisa Harris Marketing

Graduate Business Analyst / Marketing Analyst
Havant, Portsmouth

£20k 1 year fixed term contract for a graduate in Business Studies, Marketing, or similar, to take on a newly created role as Business / Marketing Analyst for a hi-tech manufacturer in Havant, Hampshire.

The role will involve a week a month travelling, primarily to US, China or Germany.

Analysing commercial data on customers, competitors, markets, products and territories, you’ll help the MD to make informed decisions on business development strategies. You’ll be supporting global business projects by investigating, analysing and presenting commercial data on high technology products.You’ll ideally be able to demonstrate experience with a variety of research methods (possibly through your degree / dissertation), including interviewing techniques as well as the analysis of subsequent data.

The role is based in Havant, Hampshire, commutable from locations such as Portsmouth, Waterlooville, Fareham, Chichester, Petersfield and it is an initial 1 year fixed term contract. Please forward your CV to darren@astutejobs.co.uk

Moloney Search is a graduate headhunting company based in London – currently they are working with an extremely well-known retailer to recruit high-flying Business students to join their fast-track management program to start in September 2011.  

They are specifically seeking ambitious and high-performing students with good extracurricular involvement who are interested in strategic management, trading and marketing rotations.   It will be an excellent opportunity for a graduate with a strong commercial interest, great leadership qualities and the drive to succeed to be a very visible part of a FTSE 100 company. 

If you are interested in hearing more about this opportunity to build your career in retail, please get in touch with Philippa at Moloney Search on 0207 368 5103 or send your CV by email on pn@moloneysearch.com

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If you are shortly to graduate you might like to apply for a place at the conference ‘Profiting From The Web’, 2pm on 23 May 2011 at the Royal Society in London.  This event is free and there are 25 places available for students interested in the Web and who are potential or current applicants for a £13k studentship to study for a PhD in Web Science at the University of Southampton.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, will be leading the discussions, and as well as being part of a top international event there will be an opportunity to talk to current students and lecturers and find out more about what it might be like to study the web at Southampton.

The event is being attended by some of the top academics and industry bodies from around the world.  To find out more about the event go to: http://webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dtc/events/profitingfromtheweb

To apply for a place, please fill in the online booking form http://tinyurl.com/ProfitingFromTheNewWeb

thebluedoor has recently won the 2010 Best Business Award for Best Small to Medium Size Business. The judges recognised its commitment to staff development and high-quality service. Full feedback can be found at http://www.bestbusinessawards.co.uk/feedback.asp

thebluedoor is looking for a high calibre graduate as an Account Executive to support the members of the account management team in the delivery of PR (on- and offline), as well as marketing for clients.

Key Tasks:

• Act as a liaison point with all suppliers to thebluedoor in connection with delivery of communications consultancy and products including internal suppliers of communications resource

• Support and strengthen the relationship between thebluedoor and its clients through professional, creative and timely delivery of communications needs – within agreed budgets and agreed schedules.

• Support existing relationships with clients; from the initial brief to delivery of projects coming through known and new contacts.

• Monitor costs for each project, within allocated budgets over each communications project, in liaison with the account management team.

• Support and strengthen the relationship between thebluedoor and its media contacts through professional, creative and timely delivery of their communications needs – within agreed schedules.

• Be an ambassador for thebluedoor at all times, adhering to smart business attire, delivering excellent counsel, high quality and creative work, and taking a proactive approach to all activities

• Demonstrate ongoing commitment to stay abreast of ongoing PR and digital developments.

• Demonstrate ongoing commitment to stay abreast of industry news relevant to thebluedoor’s customers (new and prospective).

• Support the account management team in the management of client relationships to include:

• Attending regular meetings with clients as needed
• Maintaining and updating reports for clients (status and meeting reports)
• Keeping management team updated on workload and priorities
• Timely and accurate delivery of work
• Supporting account management team through adherence to administrative and reporting practices

Key Accountability:

• Support the account management team in creating and managing effective and timely communications solutions.

Please send your CV to aharrison@thebluedoor.com if you wish to apply.

thebluedoor is the sponsor of Digital Surrey, a community for like-minded people wanting to stay up to date with the ever changing digital landscape and meet up, network, learn and share. For more information or to register as a member please visit www.digitalsurrey.co.uk

“The Web is one of the most disruptive and transformative innovations we have ever witnessed. We must understand the forces that have shaped it, anticipate its evolution, and determine its future social and economic impact. But we must also research a next generation of the Web.”  Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Research Director, Doctoral Training Centre, University of Southampton.

Offer: A fully funded 4-year MSc/PhD studentship – annual stipend £13,590.00 (tax free) and all fees paid (Equals a monthly pay of £1,130)

Topic: Anything relevant to the Web, Social Networking, Semantic Web, e-commerce, e-learning etc.

We have 10 studentship opportunities to start this October. We are contacting only the brightest students to invite them to apply. No need for computer science or programming experience.

The 4-year programme consists of a one year taught MSc course and then a 3-year PhD programme. Currently, we have students from the following disciplines:

  * Law * Sociology * Economics * Geography * Electronics * Global Politics

  * Psychology * Software Engineering * ITO * Archaeological Science

  * History of Art * Criminal Justice * Museum Studies * Management

  * International Relations * Philosophy * Multimedia applications

  * National Sciences * Archaeology * Physics * Internet Engineering

  * Computer Security * Computer Science

We offer you the chance to be part of this new, exciting and pioneering research area.

Check out the PhD opportunities at the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre:  http://webscience.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dtc/

Application deadline: 31^st May 2011

If you are an ambitious, energetic and enthusiastic recent Marketing Graduate or Marketing Executive looking to make your next career move to a dynamic and growing International company, then please read on.

The recruiting company is a leading Network Integrator who focuses on ICT solutions. As a wholly owned subsidiary of an international telecoms group who employ 17,000 people and have a €7Billion turnover, they help their customers design, build and maintain cutting edge IP based networks. Partnering where appropriate with Cisco, Juniper, ADVA, Trapeze Networks, Alcatel-Lucent, they deliver fully integrated award winning solutions centred around technical excellence and based on a sound commercial understanding.

This is an exciting and great opportunity for a recent Business/Marketing Graduate who is ambitious and wants a career in marketing. You should be comfortable with the creative development and practical execution of marketing campaigns and initiatives.

This exciting opportunity gives you the chance to work within an existing team that contains both Product and Marketing Managers, providing you with the opportunity to shape the role, whilst being able to call upon the experience and support of colleagues to further your own knowledge.

This role is critical to support the overall communications strategy.

For further information contact Zoe Darby at Inspire People on 0207 871 8556 or email zdarby@inspirepeople.co.uk

Inspire People Ltd are acting as an Employment Agency on behalf of their client.

Currently in its 14th year, the 2011 IDM Student Competition provides students with a real taste of what it is like to create a solution for a client.

The brief, provided by the sponsors, is to produce a well-researched assignment that covers all aspects of the direct, data and digital marketing disciplines, and involves the integration of these with wider elements of the marketing mix. The competition is great experience for students with a team prize of £1,500 and a runners-up prize of £800. The selected finalists get to present their ideas to the client. The competition is open to all full time UK marketing and business degree students. Teams should have between 3 and 6 members and need to be supervised by a lecturer at college or university. Listen to the experience of last year’s team from the University of Northumbria at http://www.theidm.com/winnersvideo

The 2011 Student Competition is sponsored by the Training and Development Agency for Schools. The TDA want teams to come up with a marketing plan that will encourage 40,000 students to register their interest in taking a teaching qualification on the TDA website. For more information and to download the brief, visit

http://www.theidm.com/2011studentcompetition

Another IDM Programmes that might be of interest is the IDM Marketing Summer School. This annual event will be running for students for a week beginning 27 June 2011. It provides a perfect opportunity for graduates who want a job in direct and digital marketing, enabling you to meet and learn from an array of experienced marketing practitioners. This could lead to your first marketing role. For full details go to http://www.urthebrand.co.uk/summerschool

…for an Advocacy Manager Based in London – the salary is negotiable depending on experience.  Please contact me for more information if you are interested in this role with one of the leading anti-virus companies.

Developing and retaining brand advocates is a core function enabling AVG to continue to deliver customer-focused products and increase distribution. The advocacy manager is responsible for defining and implementing AVG’s advocacy strategy across all platforms. This role has full internal and external campaign/project responsibility including the planning, execution and delivery of a global campaign.

Key accountabilities are expected to include:
- Reviewing AVG’s existing advocacy and beta programmes

- Development of an overall advocacy growth and management strategy that includes each platform (social media, forums, blogs, installed user base) with a global focus. This plan will include measurable results, benchmarks and success metrics.

- Creation of a V.I.P. program to reward our top influencers and incentivise participation

- Planning, executing and reviewing the performance of internal & external campaign activity to drive increased seller advocacy & sales to meet AVG’s performance objectives
- Working closely with agencies/suppliers, Beta and Customer Marketing teams to execute the strategy. You’ll work with colleagues to ensure that marketing efforts are co-ordinated, effective and consumer-focused
- Regular and timely communications on campaign performance including quantitative results, actionable insights and marketing effectiveness including sales, downloads and referrals.
- Ensuring that campaigns/projects, comply with policy, quality standards, budget, deadlines, branding/other guidelines and legal and compliance requirements
Key capabilities sought:

- A strong customer-focus with a bias toward measurement and metrics
- A proven track record of Marketing Campaign management and of delivering end to end campaigns for different product lines. B2C exposure would be highly desirable
- Well developed influencing and stakeholder management skills coupled with the ability to deliver business results
- Delivery focused with an ability to achieve results in a complex organisation
- Experience of marketing communications, the utilisation of insight and research, marketing planning and marketing product delivery
- Good working knowledge of Proposition Development

Measurement

- Migrate current advocates and beta testers with a less than 10% churn

- Increase new influencers by 10%

- increase engagement with AVG content by 25%

- Ensure sentiment of AVG in the community is stabilised at 95%

Associate Data Analyst: Turning data into insight to inform digital decision-making

Location: Central London

Fortune Cookie is looking for…

An individual with a data analysis background, who has a keen interest in website development. You’ll be keen to develop your online knowledge of data analysis techniques. You’ll be familiar with data manipulation techniques and be able to recognise optimisation opportunities that can benefit our clients.

What’s the role?

Working with the Lead Data Analyst, you will be responsible for data creativity, analysing digital optimisation opportunities and minimising any risks to measurability. By using processes outlined by the Lead Data Analyst you will ensure that projects are delivered with the required tracking, benchmarking, analysis and optimisation to the client. You will perform data analysis audits on client websites, create meaningful performance reports, as well as gather and represent research from both quantitative and qualitative methods.

You are someone who:

• passionate about delivering measurable value to clients
• knowledgeable about what drives good website design
• has excellent Excel skills and is used to manipulating formulae, pivot tables and creating macros
• can create imaginative solutions to complex problems
• communicates results clearly, both to the team and to clients
• enjoys data manipulation to demonstrate client priorities
• comfortable in front of an audience

Boxes to tick:

• computer science or data analysis degree
• experience of coding basic HTML
• confident using pivot tables, macros and formula in Excel 2007
• good communication skills
• analytical skills – being able to determine significant compared to a seasonal trend
• knowledge of SQL and database technologies
• experience with Google Analytics
• heard of other web analytics packages such as WebTrends, RedEye, SpeedTrap and Nedstat would be a bonus
• knowledge of Content Management Systems e.g. EpiServer

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be working for a successful, award-winning digital agency in central London. You will be part of a creative, talented team and play a key role in providing online business solutions for big-name clients – public sector organisations, blue-chip corporate clients and world-famous brands.

Fortune Cookie offer a superb package, an enthusiastic family atmosphere and a personal development and training plan.

Interested? Please send your CV to sandy.lewis@fortunecookie.co.uk