Student Placement - Digital Marketing in South Shields

We are excited to announce that we have opened the application process for our Barbour Digital Marketing Student Placement within our Global Marketing team. In Barbour’s paid placement programme, students get a full immersion into the brand’s culture for a 12-month period. During this time, our Placement Students become an integral part of the team, tackling complex business challenges, contributing to the company’s growth, and building relationships and skills that they will then carry forward throughout their career. The successful student will play a key part in the Digital Marketing team by providing support to the team and managing specific projects to enable Barbour to support campaign delivery and engage our digital community. This opportunity is a temporary training contract from Summer 2026 to Summer 2027.

Responsibilities

• Support the Digital Marketing team in their daily duties.
• Carry out regular updates to the blog, assisting in creating, building, and publishing blog content and maintaining content pages on brand websites.
• Work with the e‑commerce team to check product levels when planning and during influencer activations.
• Support the fulfilment of consumer competitions.
• Support social activations including community support, social posting and content collation.
• Support Global Marketing on the production of digital toolkits.
• Organise and dispatch competition prizes and influencer products.
• Support Barbour People activity across the UK.
• Carry out reporting on insights, competitors and social reactions as directed.
• Input to activation planning and digital delivery.
• Assist in daily admin tasks including dealing with enquiries via social, email and phone.

Skills and Experience

• Ability to work individually and within a team.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Pleasant and efficient telephone manner.
• Strong organisational and time‑management ability, with the ability to prioritise tasks.
• Tenacious individual with a desire to go the extra mile and demonstrate commitment to the role.
• Attention to detail.
• Comfortable working within a pressurised environment to achieve key deadlines.
• Able to establish relationships with people at all levels.
• Competent on Microsoft packages, particularly Excel and Powerpoint.

Additional Information

To apply for this placement, you must be currently studying an Undergraduate Sandwich Degree Course and able to undertake 12 months in industry as part of your course. This placement is based in our South Shields Head Office.

Benefits

• Staff discount
• Staff shop
• 25 days holiday as standard plus bank holidays
• Access to training and development activities to support your studies
• Free onsite parking
• Subsidised canteen
• Operate hybrid & flexible working
• 4 pm finish on a Friday
• Wellbeing support
• Reward & Recognition Program

In the event that a sufficient volume of suitable applications is received, the post may close prior to the specified closing date. Please apply as soon as possible if you are interested.