Essential Skills

• Communication: Clear and concise verbal and written skills for effective engagement with clients, teams, and media.

• Client Relationship Management: Strong ability to address client needs, build trust, and deliver exceptional service.

• Media Relations: Expertise in pitching stories, fostering media relationships, and securing impactful coverage.

• Project Coordination: Skilled in managing multiple tasks and campaigns, ensuring deadlines and objectives are consistently met.

• Organizational Skills: Maintains well-organized documentation and efficiently handles competing priorities.

• Attention to Detail: Ensures accuracy in all deliverables, including reports, presentations, and campaign materials.

• Problem-Solving: Proactively identifies challenges and offers solutions to enhance outcomes.

• Research and Insights: Conducts thorough research to provide strategic recommendations and inform PR strategies.

Additional Experience

• Event Coordination: Proven experience organizing press events, activations, and media-facing activities.

• Media Monitoring and Reporting: Proficient in tracking coverage and creating detailed performance reports.

• Digital Expertise: Familiarity with leveraging social media platforms to amplify campaigns.

• Adaptability: Thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments, particularly in sports and entertainment sectors.

• Collaboration: Works seamlessly with teams, contributing to integrated strategies and a positive team culture.

• Data Analysis: Basic skills in interpreting campaign metrics to guide strategic recommendations.

Desirable Skills

• Strategic Thinking: Anticipates client needs and suggests innovative solutions.

• Industry Awareness: Passionate about staying informed on trends in sports, entertainment, and media.

• Creative Writing: Skilled in crafting compelling press releases, pitches, and audience-focused content.

• Time Management: Balances priorities efficiently, ensuring timely delivery of all tasks.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Business, Marketing, Communication, or a related field and must be able to provide proof of enrolment from a university and sign an internship agreement.

• Basic proficiency in relevant software and tools used in account management and project coordination. (Excel, Powerpoint, Google Docs)

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively engage with clients, team members, and external partners.

• Speaking Dutch is a plus but is not mandatory

• English language (professional)

• A clear passion for the sport and entertainment industry

• Right to work in the EU

• Understanding of day-to-day workings of agency life

• No specific education level required

What we offer

For the right candidate, we will offer a remuneration of €749 (MBO, HBO and WO - This internship allowance is based on a five-day working week, assuming 40 hours of internship (5 days of 8 hours) per week. For an internship of less than 40 hours per week, the internship compensation is calculated in proportion to the number of agreed hours). The M+C Saatchi Group has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture brought to life through equity with an 18-month roadmap of business-wide activity across people, culture, industry, and society. As part of this, M+C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics. All employee information is kept confidential according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

About Us

For the past 20 years, M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment has connected brands to consumers through the things people love, making brands culturally relevant through passions. We are the passions agency. We forge enduring connections between brands and consumers through their love of sport, entertainment, and culture. Our clients include Adidas, Ballantine’s, Barclaycard, Barclays, Jameson, Dreams, Heineken, Kia, Old El Paso, SkyShowtime, UEFA, The LEGO Group, Lynx, The IOC, Red Bull, UNICEF, Absolut and many more. With offices in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Sydney, New York and Johannesburg, a team of specialists deliver the agency’s core disciplines across sport, entertainment and lifestyle, including sponsorship consultancy, rights amplification, PR, branded content creation, experiential production and social media. Our work has been awarded across the board, including seventh-time Agency of the Year at the Sport Industry Awards and two-time large Agency of the Year at the UK Sponsorship Awards. The agency is driven by two principles, First, the philosophy of ‘Brutal Simplicity of Thought’, which has been the M&C Saatchi (UK) Group’s mantra since birth: simple messages are the most powerful, making Brutal Simplicity of Thought more valid today than ever before. Second, ‘Diversity of Thought’, the belief that similar people think similar thoughts, which leads to homogenous work, therefore diversity of thought is a creative imperative.

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