Sony Europe have an incredible opportunity for a penultimate year university student to join our 2026 Sony Placement Year Intern cohort, in our Retail Marketing Operations team.
If you're still on the lookout for an Industrial Placement Year, this could quite literally change your summer!
Your Role
Retail Marketing Operations Intern
In this role, you’ll play a pivotal support role in the Product Category Strategy team deliver smooth, consistent and high-quality retail and online activity across European markets.
The role supports the day-to-day coordination of retail campaigns, product launches and market execution initiatives, working across multiple teams and stakeholders to keep activity on track. This includes helping to manage materials, timelines, approvals, market requests and follow-up actions, while ensuring information is accurate, clearly communicated and delivered on time.
By providing reliable operational and administrative support, the position helps improve execution across markets, reduce delays and allow the wider team to focus more fully on strategic priorities, commercial opportunities and overall execution quality
Throughout the placement, you will be responsible for…
Retail & Online Execution Coordination
- Support coordination and optimisation of retail and online retail execution activities across European markets
- Support creation, distribution and coordination of retail and product-related materials across markets and stakeholders
- Track market implementation status and follow up on retail and online execution timelines and quality.
- Assist maintenance of execution tracking documents, status updates and operational follow-up activities
Operational & Administrative Support
- Support internal administrative processes related to retail and marketing activities, including documentation, approvals, and invoice-related processes.
- Oversee product sample management and related operational logistics.
Market & Stakeholder Coordination
- Coordinate with multiple European markets and internal stakeholders to support smooth project execution.
- Facilitate clear, timely communication regarding deliverables, timelines, and implementation status.
- Coordinate local market requests, including the distribution of materials and translation requests.
Product Launch Support
- Provide operational and logistical support for product launches
- Prepare and organize materials required for new product launches.
- Support through physical support, creation of presentation materials, assets & samples logistics management for Events and PR Activities
- Support the wider team during peak launch periods with various marketing related activities.
Who would suit this role?
- A penultimate-year university student studying Business Management, Marketing or a related relevant degree.
- Highly organised and detail-oriented, with strong administrative and coordination skills.
- Able to manage multiple operational tasks accurately, consistently and within agreed timelines.
- Proactive and reliable, with a strong approach to follow-up and keeping activities on track.
- Confident working with multiple stakeholders and markets in a fast-moving, multinational environment.
- Clear and effective communicator with a positive, collaborative working style.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
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.
Your new office
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, 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
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.
Equal Opportunity
Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics.
Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe
Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individual with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by mail to: Sony Europe B.V, Human Resources Department, the Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required.
