OUR PLACEMENTS

11 Days left CLOSING DATE: 08/12/2013

St Andrews Golf Experience Ltd

Graduate Marketing and Sales Executive

HNC, HND, Undergraduate Degree, Postgraduate Degree

Closing Date:
08/12/2013
Skill:
Marketing market research and PR
Region:
Fife
Salary
£17,000 - £18,000
Length:
12 months
Ref code
ENQVHABVQE

Placement summary

St Andrews Golf Experience are looking for a professional and customer-oriented graduate to join the team for an exciting 12 month placement. The ideal candidate will be multi-lingual and have marketing skills to assist in researching and developing further international markets and improving our digital marketing strategies.

Job description

Project Description:

St Andrews Golf Experience are looking for a professional and customer-oriented graduate to join the team for an exciting 12 month placement. The ideal candidate will be multi-lingual and have marketing skills which will assist us in researching and further developing international markets and improving our digital marketing strategies. The role will also consist on administration roles on the routine of the business, such as booking confirmations with suppliers, payment schedules to suppliers and preparation of clients folders/vouchers prior to arrival. 

This project is aimed at helping us work towards our growth plans and we see this graduate placement as being key to this.  We are a small but dedicated management team and we are becoming increasingly stretched in servicing the business to the high level of customer satisfaction that we have set, at the same time as developing our digital marketing strategy, to help us grow in existing and expand in to new international markets.  With 80% of our income generated from French speaking territories we see this graduate placement helping us to open up at least one new market, complementing our existing revenue stream, within the next 12 – 18 months. 

Overall we see this as a strategically important role within the business, not only supporting the Directors to cover areas where we are currently stretched but the successful candidate would be responsible for developing capability within the management team to drive this business forward in a professional and customer-centric manner.  If this model is successful this would encourage us to recruit further staff to accelerate our ultimately growth ambitions.

Qualifications

Ideal candidate will have either an HND or Degree in Business Administration or Marketing with some Sales experience.

Skills / Experience

Essential Skills:

  • At least one second language ( French, German, Spanish, Danish, Swedish or other)
  • Marketing and Sales (especially for website and social media)
  • Self-motivated, professional and positive
  • Highly developed organisational skills

Desirable Skills:

  • Effective sales vocabulary

Benefits

Placement benefits:

As part of ScotGrad Graduate Placement Programme, the candidate will benefit from support from the ScotGrad team and may have access to training.

Additional information

02/12/2013

Company information

St Andrews Golf Experience Limited ("SAGE") was incorporated in 2008 with the Company's principal activity that of "tailor made", bonded golf tours provider - principally for inbound tourists visiting Scotland, England, Wales & Ireland - primarily from France.  With the web its key route to market, SAGE use a number of key domain names to attract its target audiences in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Germany and Denmark together with a presence in Canada, Argentina & Brazil.  SAGE's USP's is the fact that its Directors are multilingual, enabling them to have a closer relationship with the client and offering assistance on site on their own language - a key competitive edge for overseas visitors. The Directors also pride themselves in providing a high level of customer care, confirmed by the high level of repeated business and recommendations, enhancing the customer journey & experience when using SAGE's bespoke services during their golfing break. 

Tourism

Company website: www.standrewsgolfexperience.com

Carina Neubert Favero
01334850030

This placement may result in a permanent employment afterwards