Merkle Internship Program

Company Description
**Introduction**

Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities and create new paths to growth in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity.

**Merkle **is an important part of our world-class offering a global performance marketing agency with a 32-year track record of helping the best brands in the world create personalised experiences at every stage of the customer life cycle. Some of their esteemed brand relationships include Citibank, EmblemHealth, Dell, AARP, AT&T, Target, L’Oréal, Universal Orlando Resorts and the American Cancer Society.

**Job Description**:
Our internship program is designed to give you a mixture of business and technical skill to empower your future career. You will spend 6 months working with the Managed Services Campaign teams and 3 months working within the Digital Comms team.

**Key learnings and tasks working with our Campaign Teams**

Our Marketing Campaign teams implement and execute marketing campaigns using tools such as Adobe Campaign and Unica Campaign.

So, you will learn marketing campaign programs best practices and you will learn how to manage client campaign activities reaching from executing campaigns, managing SLAs, campaign briefs, etc.

As part of our Internship programme we’ll give you all the training and mentoring needed to get you up to speed. We’ll do this using both formal and on-the-job training, shadowing other colleagues and working on a variety of projects. Full support and guidance will be given from your line manager and our HR team.

Tasks in the campaign team:

- Understanding client briefs and translating them into workflows using Unica and/or Adobe Campaign
- 4-eye checks of your team colleagues’ work
- Participating in daily stand ups, client calls and retrospective sessions
- You will be directly working with a portfolio of international clients in a wide range of sectors
- Be part of an international team of experienced consultants.

**Key learnings and tasks working with our Digital Comms Team**
- Learn how to use state of the art marketing technology to help the marketing teams of some of the largest European brands
- You will be taught elements of how to use Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop.

**Throughout your whole time at Merkle you’ll also have the chance to**
- Support our Recruitment team and attend university fairs as a Merkle representative to create awareness of our internship and graduate programs.
- Work with our department’s leadership team to improve operational processes and communication.
- Spend around 20% of your time on learning and development every week.

**Qualifications**:
What we’re looking for
- Students in the process of obtaining a Bachelor or Master
- Good attention to detail
- You’ve got intellectual curiosity and ambition
- You’re a great team player but are also able to work autonomously
- Good English is essential as most of our communication takes place in English.

Additional Information
**Inclusion and Diversity**

**About dentsu**
- Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, we use insights to connect brand, content, commerce and experience, underpinned by modern creativity. As part of Dentsu Group Inc. we are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and our 65,000 employee-base of dedicated professionals work across four regions (Japan, Americas, EMEA and APAC). Dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society._
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion sits at the heart of our Social Impact strategy - our fully integrated sustainability strategy which includes our ambition to build a fair and more equal society, where everyone is equipped to thrive._
- If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams._