Marketing Traineeship

Full-time, 38 hours a week 

​​​Imagine that your marketing campaign is seen across the whole of Europe! As a Marketing Trainee at Action you have the opportunity to turn your creative and commercial ideas into marketing hits and empower a loved brand in a high-energy retail environment. 

Your daily tasks

During your traineeship, you will dive ​​into the exciting world of marketing at Action. You will get to know a range of teams, including Brand & Marketing Communications, Promotions, Format, Private Label, CRM, Digital Marketing, Content and Customer Insights. As you explore the roles in the department and your own interests, you will learn to understand consumer behaviour, plan and execute campaigns, create content and dive into marketing analytics and customer insights. This way you make a rapid contribution to the success of large projects on an international level. Together with our teams, you also make sure that we remain at the forefront of the industry.

Your team

With tens of millions of fans across Europe, we keep surprising them week after week.  
We are constantly expanding the Action brand using a data-driven approach and by working in agile teams. In Marketing and Digital, we are responsible for the marketing and digital strategy and its execution. We are building more and more brand and digital visibility and interaction – from customer surveys to designing our award-winning leaflet in our own Action Studio, from promotion management to messaging around our many sustainability activities and from private label development to webcare, the app and social media campaigns. And we do that for more than 2,600 stores in 12 different countries. Learning new things every day and working with the best and fun colleagues to make our popular brand even more successful is what makes us happy. Does this apply to you, too? 

Curious about your new colleagues? Your manager, mentor and teammates can't wait to support you during your traineeship.

What you offer

You are proactive, keen to learn and open to acquiring more knowledge. Creative ideas come to you with ease, and you enjoy working with others to achieve them. You are digital savvy and also love to follow all trends on social media and have a great interest in the customer and retail market overall. What's more, your ability to adapt means you are perfectly placed to bring new marketing and commercial ideas to life within the organisation. 

You also have the following: 

• Willingness to learn 

• One to two years' work experience (this can also be in another professional field)  

• Ability to communicate in English (spoken and written) 

What we offer

Within the Marketing & Digital team you will learn about everything we do to engage with our customers and attract them to our stores and you will be able to make plans and bring initiatives to live while working in a commercial, creative, high paced, agile and fun working environment. 

From our headquarters in the Netherlands, you will have an impact across the whole of Europe. We're now up to more than 2,600 stores in 12 countries and millions of smiles from our customers – and we're not stopping there, because we have major growth ambitions, both for Action and you. Our growth means you can always take new steps to develop as a professional, whether that means a different position, an interesting innovation project or new skills. And you can do all that in a culture where we truly embrace our shared values: customer focus, teamwork, simplicity, discipline, cost-consciousness and respect.

​​​You can also count on Action for the following: 

• 24 days of holiday and the option to buy 5 extra days (based on 38 hours per week)

• 15% staff discount on your purchases at Action  

• Collective health insurance and travel allowance (Zwaagdijk is reachable from Amsterdam by car in just 30 minutes on uncongested roads) 

How we contribute to society

We are also working hard behind the scenes to make a positive impact on society and the environment. Did you know we sponsor more than 2,000 children worldwide who are growing up in an SOS Children's Village? Or that our team reflects the diversity of our customers, representing 155 nationalities? Or that 94% of our wood products and 100% of our cotton already come from sustainable sources? Or that we only use energy-efficient LED lighting in almost all our stores? If you're curious about what other initiatives we're taking, join our team and see for yourself. 

Interested?

We're proud to be an inclusive employer, and we warmly invite anyone who sees themselves in the vacancy to apply. So take action and respond to this vacancy now!  

Throughout the process, your recruiter is your permanent point of contact and is available to answer any questions you may have.