Colliers International is a leading commercial real estate services company, providing a full range of services to real estate occupiers, developers and investors on a local, national and international basis. Services include brokerage sales and leasing (landlord and tenant representation), real estate management, valuation, consulting, project management, project marketing and research. We provide our services across the core sectors (office, industrial, retail and hotel) as well as many specialised property types.

Our Marketing and Communications department are seeking an Apprentice to join the team to support a variety of teams including Marketing, PR, Client Engagement, and the Bid Team. This role should provide efficient administrative support in the day to day running of the UK Marketing & Communications team whereby we will provide the candidate with a general background and training in the rudiments of Marketing PR & Communications.

Key responsibility of the role

Marketing

• Assist in organising corporate and departmental events and webinars/marketing campaigns
• Updating content on the company intranet, Colliers Hub
• Complete staff charitable donation requests as approved by the Charity Committee and recording charity activities
• Assist with projects including preparing or updating PowerPoint slides and documents
• Monitoring several inboxes daily and direct to the appropriate Marcomms contact

PR & Communications

• Sourcing news, drafting news releases, selling in stories (low level)
• Sourcing, analysing, and creating daily and weekly media coverage reports.
• Assisting with compilation of PR Monthly dashboard
• Assist in creating media lists

Client Engagement

• Pulling data from various sources for client reports, i.e. from spreadsheets, Salesforce etc
• Carrying out client research online

Bids

• Maintenance of the Bids shared ‘Corporate Tenders Mailbox’
• Completing Bids WIP Matrix
• Maintaining the Bids Works in Progress spreadsheet
• Manage Bids Diaries: ensuring formal bid deadlines are in Bid team & bid sponsors diaries
• Expressing interest on the relevant portal following confirmation from Bid team
• Supplier registrations by completing relevant information to support fee earning teams and other business services teams (finance & legal), in ‘registering Colliers as a supplier'
• Helping to source imagery for bid documents

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams
• Excellent organisational skills with ability to prioritise multiple tasks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Have professional attitude and presentation
• High level of attention to detail including strong proof-reading skills
• Able to build relationships at all levels in the company from team administrators to the CEO
• Be a real team player with a proactive “can do” attitude
• Able to manage and coordinate diaries

An opportunity to develop skills in Marketing and Communications whilst studying towards a level 3 qualification in Marketing. On the job training will be provided in the following areas: 

• Salesforce, or similar CRM system.
• Email marketing platform, e.g. Vuture / Mailchimp / Concep
• Social media tools including Hootsuite, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
• PR tools, e.g. Roxhill, Signal AI etc.
• CMS experience e.g. Wordpress, Sitecore
• Opportunity to work in an enterprising environment where you can accelerate your career growth.
• A global culture, with a strong focus on learning and development.