Brand & Sports Sponsorship Marketing Intern in London

JD.com (JINGDONG) is a global technology and supply chain company serving customers worldwide. The organization emphasizes innovation that improves life and maintains a cross-border, digitally intelligent network.

You’ll join the JD Young (JDY) Internship Program, designed to give early-career talent hands-on exposure to real projects, responsibilities, and growth. Over 3–6 months, you’ll work with experienced teams, build fundamental skills, and gain insights into how a global business operates.

What You’ll Do

• UEFA Partnership & Sponsorship Activation: Support the delivery of Joybuy's UEFA partnership across the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Coordinate sponsorship activation plans, manage content approval workflows with UEFA, ensure all marketing activity complies with sponsorship rights and brand guidelines, and support matchday activations where required.
• Social Media & Brand Engagement: Support the delivery of UEFA social media activity across owned and partner channels, including coordinating content approvals, supporting influencer activations, managing live social content during key campaign moments and helping maximise campaign reach and engagement.
• Brand Partnerships & Campaign Delivery: Support the Senior Brand Partnerships Manager in delivering integrated marketing campaigns with strategic partners including LEGO, Philips, Sony and P&G. Coordinate campaign timelines, approval processes and local market execution to ensure activity is delivered consistently across the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
• Brand Governance & Creative Support: Assist the wider Brand team with copywriting requests, review marketing assets against brand guidelines, coordinate approval processes and help maintain consistency across campaigns and customer touchpoints. Review wider brand assets to ensure alignment with brand standards before launch.
• Campaign Reporting & Insights: Monitor campaign performance, compile post-campaign reports and analyse marketing performance data to generate insights that inform future brand and partnership activity.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with local marketing teams, creative, social, PR and external agency partners to coordinate international campaigns, maintain project timelines and ensure stakeholder alignment across activations and campaigns.

About You

• Passion for brand marketing, social media and sports sponsorship, with a genuine interest in a career in brand marketing.
• Strong organisational and project coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail when reviewing creative assets, marketing copy and approval processes.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the confidence to write and review marketing content for UK and European audiences.
• Interest in international marketing and how campaigns are planned across different European markets.
• Analytical mindset to interpret campaign data and support the creation of measurement reports.
• Proactive, collaborative and eager to learn in a fast-paced international marketing environment.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across functions, agencies and European markets.
• Open to occasional flexible hours, including evenings or weekend events such as UEFA matchdays and live campaigns where required.
• Experience with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint and Excel) and familiarity with social media platforms.

Programs

• JD STAR - Specialist Development Program: A flagship graduate pathway with structured training, coaching, and opportunities for permanent roles and competitive salaries & benefits.
• JD Young - Internship Program: A 3–6 month program for current undergraduates or masters students to gain practical skills and real-world experience, with potential progression to STAR or Vanguard.
• JD Vanguard - Logistics Future Leaders Program: A frontline leadership pipeline for operations and people leadership with the possibility of permanent roles and competitive compensation as JD Logistics expands globally.