The Dune Group - PR Intern
Date Posted: Wednesday 9th August 2023
Date Expires: Saturday 9th September 2023
The Dune Group
Dune London is the leading affordable luxury footwear and accessories brand in the UK, with broad distribution across both the UK and internationally. It has 50 stores in the UK and over 100 in 25 countries around the world. The company is entering a period of sustained growth both through additional stores, expansion of sales on its online channels and through third party partners both in the UK and globally. Celebrating its 30th anniversary the group has over the years built an enviable position as the specialist in quality fashion footwear and accessories which has given it a unique position at the high end of the high street.
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity here at The Dune Group for an organised and pro-active person, who is passionate about a career in PR, to join our Press Team. This will be a part-time contract role.
During your time with the business you will support the press team with the day to day duties of their role and will gain some fantastic experience in the following areas:
- An understanding of The Dune Group and how the press department operates
- Supporting with management of the sample room and samples
- Supporting with updating our online press image database
- Compiling coverage documents for internal use
- Supporting with administration duties across the function
- Understand how we work towards gaining press coverage in different medias
This is a great chance for you to take your first step in working within a fast-paced press team and for you to start to build on your press contacts for a successful career in the industry.
This role will provide the successful candidate with not only a working knowledge of PR roles and practices; but also, an understanding of how the PR team works in partnership with the business.
Essential Responsibilities
- Supporting the team with the day to day running of the press office
- Scanning newspapers, magazines, digital publications and social media for brand coverage or any relevant retail news.
- Filing all coverage cuttings received, ready for the weekly trade report
- Managing the press image database and making sure that it is updated with new product imagery daily
- Adding new press contacts and monitoring any changes or movements within the industry on our media database
- Assisting with image and sample press requests
- Sample management: ordering samples, booking in new season samples, sending samples out to press contacts and returning samples back into stock.
- Contacting publishing houses and relevant fashion cupboard teams to call back outstanding samples and monitor sent out stock to ensure a healthy sample inventory.
- Managing the sample cupboards and collating retired stock for internal sample sales
- Returning stock to the DC via the returns system
- Liaising with other departments in the business to ensure the smooth running of the press office including Buying, Photography Studio, Social, Marketing & Retail teams
- Compile research reports for internal use e.g. fashion news, competitor reports etc
- Assist with brand seasonal press events / launches
- Researching influencers and tastemakers
Key Skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Enthusiastic team player with a real passion for PR
- Excellent communication skills, articulate, numerate and reliable.
- Self Confidence
- Ability to maintain trust and confidentiality
- Organisation and Prioritisation
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Helpful and supportive to the team at all times.
About the perks
- Free Gym Membership
- Blended working – spreading your time across our office and remote working
- Brand new sustainable office in bustling West London (near Westfield)
- Friendly and open culture with flat structures allowing plenty of opportunity for development.
- Company growth and opportunity; Dune is opening new stores and channels and evolving all the time
- Open-minded company, welcoming thoughts and ideas to be shared
- Working with charitable organisations to help raise funds and give something back. Our current charity partner is Mental Health UK.
- 60% employee discount on Dune products – what’s not to love!
- 25 days holiday (plus the bank holidays)
- Cycle2work and season ticket loans
- Company pension scheme
- Life assurance for all team members
- We look after our people
- 3.00 p.m. finish every pay day Friday!
- Team socials and drinks – we like to have fun!
- Access to our employee assistance programme, retailTRUST, who provide loads of resources to support with wellbeing and personal development offer free counselling legal advice and financial guidance.
- Our own Wellbeing Allies – there to talk when you need them.
What happens next?
We will take a good look at your application and if we don’t feel we are right for you, we’ll make sure we let you know but sadly we are not able to give tailored feedback.
If we are excited to find out more about you, we will give you a call and arrange to talk. A few things that might help:
- Research the brand, the role, your interviewer on LinkedIn; browse our website; and visit a store if you can
- Make sure you have plenty of examples to show off all your amazing skills and experience relevant to this role
No recruitment agencies
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