Trade Marketing Intern Review
at BSH
Placement (10 Months+)
Marketing
Milton Keynes
Review Submitted: August 2022
Overall Rating
2.5 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
2/5
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Overview of Role
3/5
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Skills Development
3.5/5
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Support and Guidance
1.5/5
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Company Culture
3/5
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Overall Experience
2/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
My role was to support the trade marketing managers with the day to day marketing activity and management of their retail accounts. I was a point of contact for internal and external stakeholders and provided them with relevant information/image assets/market overviews as well as POS and promotional merchandise ordering.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
As a support role in the team, I wasn't always given the opportunity to own my own projects and mostly did smaller, administration based tasks. I think being mostly remote was a main factor in not having ownership over tasks as when we started to come back to the office more, I feel I was exposed to more and was able to get involved in other projects.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
2/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
Improved my knowledge of MS Office after receiving training for Excel and got experience working in a large, global company.
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
3/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
2/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
4/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
3/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
When joining the business remotely, I didn't feel like I was supported much when trying to understand the ins and outs of the business. BSH is a complicated company to get to grips with when you first join and it took me some time to understand the processes and ways of working here.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
3/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
4/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
Company culture is friendly but corporate, people are happy to help which is good as a new starter but there is definitely processes in place that don't change.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
2/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
1/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
1/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
2/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I appreciated the opportunity to come to a large corporation as a humanities graduate, I enjoyed some aspects of my internship and learnt a lot. I didn't enjoy the lack of integration into the business as a remote worker when I first joined, it was hard to introduce myself to others when not in the office.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
3/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
3/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at BSH
2/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend BSH to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to BSH
It is a great place to get your foot in the door and be exposed to so many large brands. I think the company is best suited to those just starting out or those at senior management/director level as there isn't much room for career progression post internship/grad scheme.
