Marketing Assistant (CRM LoB) Review

It's been a great year. I've been responsible for a number of campaigns throughout the year and have learnt a lot along the way. I've been given the opportunity to travel to Germany and Spain whilst also attending various events in London and around the UK. Joining with nearly 30 other interns I've met some fantastic people who I'm sure I'll be in contact with long into the future.

I found that as my placement went on I was given more and more responsibilities - interns are treated very much as full time employees and this allowed for greater integration within the team. Bringing in real results in terms of pipeline for example, showed how interns are of true value to the team and this was reflected in their praise.

The marketing team have been incredibly supportive throughout the year and are always very happy to help should there be a problem. The buddy system at SAP means that new starters have a team member to go to whenever there's a problem and this 1:1 guidance eases the learning process and builds working relationships.

When managing an end-to-end campaign, the Run Prouder Awards, I was incredibly busy in terms of hosting pitches, brainstorming with agencies, managing budgets, organising promotional activities etc. It was great to be so heavily involved in the project and to have so much responsibility, being busy made time fly by!

As already alluded to I was given a lot of responsibilities throughout the year and these increased as my skills developed. Managing large budgets is a good example of this and I was often trusted to make final decisions on what the money was spent on.

I have learnt a great deal about the corporate working environment and developed my professionalism which will be a great help when looking for a job in the future. More than anything, this year has given me huge visibility of all types of marketing, from client to agency side and has enhanced my focus on where I'd like to work upon leaving university.

Not too vibrant at the moment, the influx of interns certainly helps and the situation is improving!

Very good, set up mostly by other interns so painpoints were noted and solved quickly.

There were a number of development days which allowed for professional growth throughout the year.

There wasn't a role to go back to in marketing once graduating from university unfortunately.

As there were so many of us we often got together over the weekend.

Fairly expensive compared to the north!

We mostly ventured into London which was great - sometimes went to Windsor and Richmond which weren't quite as vibrant but still nice enough.

Loads.