Social Marketing - 12 Month Placement 2025

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Social Marketing - 12 Month Placement 2025

If you want a student placement where you do loads of photocopying and making people cups of tea, this one really isn’t for you!!

Each year we invite Students to complete their placement year with us in our Eco HQ in Surrey. We nickname these students our ‘Future Talent’ because they often go on to do great things, either here at TGB, on our Graduate scheme or in the wider working world.

We are proud to offer a 12 month placement as part of your undergraduate degree, giving you Industry experience in a global brand (but with community feel) organisation. As part of the emerging talent community, you’ll get access to our 70:20:10 learning and development framework*, you’ll have the support of the student community and roll your sleeves up to get involved in specific projects & fundraising to make a genuine difference.

Weather you know the exact path you want to take, just want to dip your toe into working life or you’ve not really thought about what happens after uni, we’re able to provide you with experience in a generalist sales and marketing business, we’re inclusive and we’ll give you the tools for you to grow into a well-rounded employable graduate.

 You might also be a complete petrol head (which is great, but you don’t have to be), love innovation and believe that there’s ‘Always a better way’? If so, read on for more information about our placements and how we make it as easy as possible for you to apply!

PR and Social Business Student – Whistle stop overview

Our Press Relations and Social Media department has two roles available, one for each area of its work. The two teams work closely together, which means we can provide a single recruitment stream for candidates, giving you a better recruitment experience.

The roles will give you the chance to learn how this busy and influential department works and to develop valuable skills. On the social media side you will respond directly to Toyota and Lexus’s social audiences, providing accurate information and publishing content to different platforms. Where Press Relations is concerned, you will gain real-world experience in building and maintaining relationships between our brands and the media. You will have ample opportunities to bring new ideas to the team and help manage and monitor new product launches, from inception to completion.

The Press and Social team will encourage you to come up with ideas on how its processes and ways of working might be improved. You will also be encouraged to take ownership of specific projects, so we are looking for candidates with a good eye for detail. You will also have access to the Insights team, giving you the chance to learn to analyse, code and report on social conversations.

You can find more detail about both of these roles in the Job Profiles at the bottom of the page! 

You want in?

To be considered for this role, you’ll need to be:

• You’ll need to be completing a 4 year undergraduate degree, ideally PR or Communications focused
• Confident in communicating, with an awesome eye for detail when it comes to written work and grammar
• Really team focused and able to build relationships 
• Passionate about customers & obsessed with delivering a service the way that customers LOVE!
• Residing in the UK and either living within or willing to relocate to within a commutable distance of our ECO HQ

What you’ll get 

Great people deserve great things

Enabling you to be the best you can be is top on the list at TGB, so it’s more than just an externally benchmarked salary and bonus that puts smiles on the faces of people that work here:

• Access to attractive car schemes for you (& your family)
• Eco HQ, free parking & restaurant offering a fantastic working environment
• Generous annual leave which increases with service and holiday trading option.
• Flexible working initiatives*
• 2 volunteering days per year and various Corporate & Social Responsibility initiatives.
• Private medical healthcare, Employee Assistance Program & eye tests
• Exclusive discounts & discount website
• Onsite gym, Sports and Social Club, cycle to work scheme & flu jabs to keep you healthy
• Regular 121s with your manager, a personal development plan reviewed quarterly with a range of training & support (as per the TGB Management Deal)
• Annual events and random acts of kindness throughout the year (e.g, summer party, Green month BBQ)

*We don’t take a cookie cutter approach to working flexibly because this means different things to different people. Its best to talk to us about the flexibility you’d like at the interview and although we can’t promise that we’ll be able to give you exactly what you want, we will definitely promise not to judge you for asking. We love it that lots of our people work flexibly!

Toyota loves diversity -

To innovate, we need diversity of thought so a diverse and inclusive workplace is hugely important to us. We won’t discriminate against any protected characteristics, will judge applications on merit and won’t make any assumptions.

The Process

We want to make sure that we get the best future talent available, so we have designed a screening and recruitment process to help us. All of our processes are mapped to our internal competencies and potential model as well as ensuring a great fit for our innovative and customer focussed culture.

Application > Psychometric Testing > One way video interview > Assessment centre

About Toyota GB

You may already follow Toyota or Lexus on social media or in the news and have heard about the great things that we continue to achieve globally, well, what we do here at TGB helps achieve those great things! Here at out ECO HQ in Surrey, we support the car dealership network as the sales and marketing functions for both Toyota and Lexus in the UK. We are a diverse team with a common goal, to do business the way that customers love.

There’s loads of really great stuff on our blog

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.

Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.