• Job Description

  Req#: JR-115055

  Public Relations Placement Year 2024

  Location: Weybridge

  We are seeking two placement students with a passion for public relations and communication to become the PR placement interns at Sony Europe. In those roles, you will be involved in all day-to-day activities of the public relations department, including collaborating with agencies, coordinating events, drafting press releases, coverage monitoring and reporting, and arranging product reviews.
  
  Throughout this 12-month paid placement, you will be given the opportunity to not only expand your knowledge in public relations and gain valuable transferable skills, but also to get an exciting insight into Sony’s PR operation actively contributing to our media presence in Europe. Working within an established team, you will be offered experienced mentorship alongside multiple development opportunities.
  
  Throughout the placement, you will:

  • Provide event support at European trade and consumer media events, including coordination, logistics and on-the-ground media liaison and product demos.
  • Build understanding of consumer insights and target audiences to develop creative, content-led and sustained editorial PR campaigns for our products.
  • Draft product press releases.
  • Analyse media and influencer coverage and produce coverage reports.
  • Coordinate information between central and in-country PR teams to maintain coherency in communication.
  • Support the team with administrative tasks (e.g. maintaining a shared drive, preparing documents and presentations, raising purchase orders for suppliers).
  • Work with the internal communications team to ensure employees are kept up-to-date with interesting and timely PR topics, such as product launches, awards, and coverage.

  You will bring:

  • Excellent communication skills (written and spoken).
  • Openness to challenges and being challenged!
  • Good eye for detail and proof-reading skills.
  • Self-motivated, organised and inquisitive mindset.
  • Enthusiastic and proactive attitude to working on evolving projects and ad hoc duties.
  • Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
  • Proficiency in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint).

  You will be studying for an undergraduate degree in Public Relations, Communications or Media-related, with eligibility for a 12-month placement starting July 2024.

  Our recruitment process.

  The job posting will be open until 9th November. Afterwards, the selected candidates will be asked to complete an automated video interview. In December, the best-performing candidates will be invited to an interview. We are aiming to finalise our recruitment process by the end of December.

  Life at Sony.

  We will make you a part of a large and diverse placement student network which will allow you to foster friendships and to build lifelong connections with like-minded students. We are passionate about your personal development and to help you get the most out of your Placement Year, there will be a number of Training Modules and a range of Learning & Development programs available to help you learn, grow and lay the building blockers for your career.

  We are positive a community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture across Europe in all our modern and inspiring workspaces. We believe in a sustainable and engaged workforce and support work-life balance with 25 vacation days and working policies to encourage our students to achieve a healthy balance between success at work and personal commitments. Our flexible working policy allows employees to work from 8 days per month, where employees are expected in the office 3 days per week.

  We provide access to numerous wellbeing services and platforms to promote all aspects of health, including employee assistance programs and DE&I initiatives. We respect our people and listen to them through ongoing conversations and surveys. We value suggestions for improvements, and act to promote a better placement experience for everyone.

  Bring your uniqueness to Sony.

  We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

  We are Sony Europe.

  Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

  With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

  Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

  Bring your uniqueness to Sony.

  We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

  We are Sony Europe.

  Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

  With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale.

  Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.

  Your new office: Weybridge.

  Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our own Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack (useful if you’ve made the most of the Cycle-to-Work scheme), or if you will use public transport we have a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between train station and the office at peak times.

  Take a look at our video tour of the Weybridge site here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwbMOzjoVA

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• About the company

  Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo.

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