Internship - Junior Marketing Manager

JUNIOR MARKETING MANAGER INTERN – Summer 2023 Internship

REPORTING TO: Marketing Manager, Chicago

PARTNERING WITH: Chicago Team

LOCATION: Chicago

We are looking for a pro-active and confident Marketing Intern to join our Agency Marketing and New Business team in North America.

The Marketing and New Business team’s role is to build and grow the Iris brand, manage reputation, attract new clients and ultimately grow business.

This person will provide support across Iris’s online channels to ensure regularity and speed of all content published within the network – supporting across all Iris social channels and events.

From taking charge of case study creation for new work, this person will be the driving force in curating content for social, the Iris website and relevant search consultant profiles, for all those connected to Iris to engage and participate with.

This person will also support Iris NA’s new business efforts, getting involved with proactive prospecting and the pitch process, primarily helping with research needs.

At Iris, we’re passionate about progress, and we will want you to buy into what we stand for and have fresh ideas about how to bring that to life in your role.

Collaboration is key. You will be part of a marketing team led by the CMO, data driven solutions marketing manager, new business marketing manager, and supported by an external PR agency.

Responsibilities

• Case study development
• Work with Marketing team and client account leads to draft work case studies
• Keeping Creative & search consultant portals up to date with new work, news & propositions
• Supporting new Business Marketing Manager on awards submissions
• Creation of social content, reactive & proactive – including work launches, events, thought leadership, people news & Iris culture (across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter via Hootsuite)
• Helping draft our monthly newsletter, and our internal weekly Hot Hustle email.
• Awards support
• Plus, ongoing administrative support, including:
• Support on proactive new business outreach including the creation of prospecting comms
• Overall content management of all Iris’ social media presence, including:
• Supporting with email communications
• Collecting information and drafting responses

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who’s just starting out or in the early stages of a career in marketing, with a keen interest in the advertising industry & agency life.

Key Skills Required

• A proactive, confident & collaborative individual
• Keen to learn about the career roles of an in-house Marketing & New Business team
• Any experience using Hootsuite, CMS (Umbraco, Wordpress or similar) or CRM platforms is also desirable but not essential
• A passion for writing and creating content
• The ideal candidate will have knowledge and experience of working with social platforms. You must be able to demonstrate a good understanding of how these channels can be used to generate business and sell Iris to potential clients
• An interest in the creative industry, and specifically on Iris and its clients
• Experience in events is desirable (marketing / producing / hosting)
• A keen interest & any experience or training in sales or marketing is preferential, but not essential

About Our Internship Program

• Dates: June 13 – August 5 (8 weeks)
• Compensation: $15/hour
• This is NOT a coffee-run and making copies internship! Interns will work alongside the rest of our team, attend meetings, and will be fully immersed in day-to-day agency life.
• Interns will work closely with their manager and colleagues and will contribute to the work the team is doing for clients.
• The internship will be a hybrid of in-office days and WFH days.
• Interns will complete one group project for the program to be presented at the end of the 8 weeks
• Interns will attend weekly Lunch & Learns led by our team members

About Iris

Back in 1999, Iris was founded by a team of six people around a single client. Those six founders are still at the very heart of our business. Today, Iris is a thriving micro-network of over 1,000 people in 14 locations across the globe. We deliver a multitude of fully integrated specialisms within creative, consulting and mar-tech to some of the most progressive clients around the world.

We are part of the Cheil Worldwide network – the world’s 15th biggest creative agency company. Our partnership with Cheil has allowed us to extend our global to a network of 55 offices.

We are ‘For the Forward’. Always exploring. Restless. Never done. Radiators of positive energy that serve to motivate. Empowering and supporting others to find opportunity. We liberate ourselves by removing the barriers that stand in the way of progress. Confident, bold, decisive and at times challenging. We stretch what’s possible. Always asking ‘What will move us Forward?’