Marketing Compliance Placement

JOB TITLE: Marketing Compliance Placement

LOCATION: Milton Keynes (hybrid 1-3 days in the office required per week)

CLOSING DATE:Monday 30th September 2024

SALARY: £22,250, 27 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, loan car scheme, pension and a discretionary bonus

CONTRACT: June 2025 - June 2026

To apply for our undergraduate placement scheme, you must be studying for an undergraduate degree that requires a placement year. Master's students are not eligible.

Do you have a strong desire to learn and contribute to ensuring our marketing activities adhere to regulations and industry standards while maintaining a creative and engaging approach? We are looking for an energetic, creative, and organised Marketing Compliance Undergraduate to join our Marketing team. If you are looking for a placement in a fast-paced and engaging setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

This is what your time at Volkswagen Financial Services might look like:

• Manage the review and approval of all financial promotions across national and local channels, including digital, print, TV, radio and point of sale.
• Be the dedicated subject matter expert for financial promotions, managing the approvals process end-to-end ensuring all materials are reviewed and are clear, fair and not misleading.
• Working collaboratively with Marketing Managers to respond to briefs for promotional terms and conditions and advise on the creation of compliant financial promotions.
• Manage and monitor workflows, assigning all inbound jobs and enquiries to relevant departments across Marketing, Compliance, and Campaign Development teams.
• Create training materials and delivers regular training webinars and workshops to Volkswagen brand marketing teams and marketing agencies relating to regulatory requirements and industry best practice.
• Collaborate with ecommerce and integrations teams to review and approve customer facing digital platforms to ensure adherence to regulatory standards.
• Assess competitor (and outside of category) financial promotions activity to benchmark and assess opportunities for improvements.
• Manage the updates to Volkswagen Financial Services advertising guidelines, ensuring any new regulation and changes to advertising approach are accurately represented.

About you:

• Currently studying a degree in Marketing, or a related field.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to review and interpret complex information
• Credible and confident, able to communicate at all levels across the business
• Have a customer orientated approach
• Creative and proactive approach to problem solving
• Ability to work both independently and effectively within a team
• PC literacy - especially in Excel, PowerPoint and Word

What we can offer you:

• Salary of £22,250 per annum plus discretionary bonus and company pension scheme
• A wealth of experience and a fun and sociable workplace to start your career
• You'll be joining a group of 49 undergraduates, so you'll have a large group of peers to work alongside
• Access to Life Skills workshops, designed specifically for you as an undergraduate
• Opportunity to join a discounted loan car scheme
• Physical and mental health support with our onsite Wellbeing Centre
• Hybrid blend of working at our office based in Milton Keynes and working from home

Here's what our process looks like:

• Apply and upload your CV, covering letter and answer a few application questions.
• You'll then be invited to complete a Situational Judgement Test. This is a short multiple-choice question set to understand how you may approach situations.
• If you pass this stage, you will be invited to complete an online video interview where you will have the opportunity to tell us more about yourself.
• If successful, your final step in the journey is to attend an assessment centre at our Milton Keynes office where you will take part in a group exercise, complete a short interview and deliver a presentation. You'll also meet some of our managers and our current Undergraduates to find out more about a placement year with us.

About Volkswagen Financial Services UK Limited:

Our mission is straight forward, we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. What does that mean? To make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible.

In our ever-changing world, this can be a challenge, so we aim to foster an openly entrepreneurial, pioneering environment, focussed on your mobility needs.

To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing.

We do this by offering a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems.

Volkswagen Financial Services are committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from everyone. Diversity and Inclusion is not just a statement for us, and we are nurturing an environment where everyone can be their 100% self. If there is anything we can do to support you during our recruitment process, please let us know and we will support you as best we can.

Our undergraduate placement roles do not meet the UKVI's criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.

Please do not apply for more than one placement role. This will ensure that you are considered for the placement that you are most interested in, and your skills are aligned to.

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