Undergraduate role – Marketing

Job description

Job title: Undergraduate – Marketing
Team: Marketing – Campaigns
Location: Glasgow (with home working options)
Salary: £22,932 pro rata
Hours: Full time (35 hours)
Status: 12 weeks fixed term – starting 1 July 2025
Vacancy ref: R00612
Closing date: 7 May 2025

Be part of building Scotland’s future

Are you a creative and ambitious graduate ready to turn your learning into practice and launch your marketing career? Join us for a dynamic 12-week placement packed with real-world experience. We're offering you a rich and varied hands-on placement across multiple areas of marketing, in a busy, high-profile area of our operations.

From crafting compelling content to diving into digital marketing strategies and analytics, this placement offers you a front-row seat to the fast-paced world of marketing and communications. You won’t just be shadowing – you’ll be doing. You’ll work with a supportive team, build on your experience, and gain insights that go far beyond the classroom.

The role

This 12-week marketing placement offers hands-on experience across brand development, digital marketing, content creation, and analytics, providing an opportunity to build skills in business-to-business marketing across domestic and international audiences.

The role will:

• Contribute to campaigns across web, social media, and email
• Gain insights from analytics and audience research
• Explore influencer engagement strategies

By the end of the placement, candidates will have developed a strong foundation in modern marketing practices and made a tangible impact on brand visibility and audience engagement.

Responsibilities 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Marketing and digital content planning and creation
• Analytics and reporting
• Influencer and brand research

Who we're looking for

This programme welcomes applications from undergraduates who are in the early stages of their degree studies.  

We're looking for a candidate who is creative and proactive, can work collaboratively in a busy team environment, and can adapt and flex to new information and opportunities.

As a minimum, we're looking for an undergraduate in a marketing or business degree who can demonstrate the following skills:

• Confident written and verbal communication
• Digital literacy across social, web, and email
• Analytical thinking, with an ability to interpret data
• The creation and curation of content aligned to our brand tone of voice
• Research and presenting findings clearly
• Education to SCQF Level 6

Ideally, but not essentially, you’ll also have:

• SEO awareness – and an understanding of how websites work and the basics of keyword optimisation
• Knowledge of business-to-business marketing best practice

Role profile

Further information on the role can be found in the attached role profile.

Life at Scottish Enterprise

As one of Scotland’s Top 10 Flexible Employers, we pride ourselves on empowering our colleagues to work when and where they can best deliver their role in support of our corporate plan.

Learn more about working with us 

How to apply

If you're interested in this role, please complete your application form and send it to us by 7 May 2025.

Interview dates

• Monday 19 May 2025
• Tuesday 20 May 2025

Our values

Being part of Scottish Enterprise means being open to new ideas and trying different ways of working. We support each other to reach our full potential. We celebrate shared success and learn together when things don’t go so well. And we always treat each other fairly, with respect and understanding. Together, we are the difference.

At Scottish Enterprise, we’re proud to celebrate difference. Diversity of experience and thought is vital to the success of our vision for the future of every community across Scotland. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from a wide range of individuals, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender identity and expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

We commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required, not only during the application and assessment process but throughout your employment with us.

We have the following networks which are open to all colleagues to help drive inclusion: Disability Positive, Gender Balanced, Multi-Cultural, Multi-Generational, and Pride (LGBTQ+).

Apply now to build your future with us.