Business Service Placement - Business Development and Marketing Team

Term: Temporary
Working hours: Full-time
Department: Business Development
Location: Edinburgh
The team

We are currently recruiting for a placement student to join our Business Development and Marketing team for a 8-10 week period over summer 2024. The successful candidate will have a keen interest in developing their knowledge in this area and may be studying, or planning to study, a related degree. This is a paid opportunity.

We welcome applications from all sections of the community. 

The role

Key responsibilities include:

  • Project work such as supporting on the development of our content tracking platform to enable the Marketing & Business Development teams to see at a glance what marketing materials are available,  identify what needs updated, and to work with the team to update the relevant materials.
  • Review and update various internal intranet pages.
  • Review of web content and update as required
  • Population of various databases with revised/new content
  • Provide day-to-day administrative support to the BD team and undertake any other reasonable assistance duties as requested.
Other information

At Shepherd and Wedderburn we strive to provide a supportive, inclusive and high performance working environment, where everyone feels they belong. Diversity and inclusion is at the heart of our business and we welcome applicants from different backgrounds to all levels of the organisation. To foster inclusivity we particularly encourage applications from those who may be from underrepresented groups, including candidates from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBT+ people, disabled people and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

Shepherd and Wedderburn is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information that we collect as a “data controller”. The information provided by you will be processed in accordance with our GDPR Privacy Notice for Applicants and Work Experience Students. If you are successful in obtaining paid employment with us, we will hold your information in accordance with our Personnel Data Retention Policy, which will be provided to you at the relevant time.

We will process the information you provide solely for the purpose of evaluating your application for employment. The information will be disclosed to the interview panel (if relevant), your line manager (if appointed), and Human Resources staff members. We may contact any references provided for the purposes of discussing your application, and will ask your permission before doing so.

If you provide any information deemed to be “special category” information under the General Data Protection Regulation, we may use this as follows:

  • We will use information about your disability status to provide appropriate adjustments to the interview process.
  • We will use any information provided in our diversity monitoring form about your race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender identity, gender expression, social mobility background, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, any disability information, age, and marital/civil partnership status to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting. Any analysis of this data will be done on an anonymous basis.

Should your application be unsuccessful, the information provided will be deleted within 1 year of a decision not to progress your application.

If you have any further questions about how we process and store your information, or your rights in relation to this, please refer to our GDPR Privacy Notice for Applicants and Work Experience Students (available at www.shepwedd.com/careers/working-with-us/privacy-notice)