Position Job Title: Global Marketing – Institutional: Professional Placement Year Internship
Business Unit: Core - Global Marketing
Contract Type: Internship
Preferred Start Date: Summer 2026
Eligibility: Undergraduates in their 3rd year of a 4-year degree with a professional placement year.
Duration of the Placement: 12 months
Location: 22 Bishopsgate, London
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) is now part of the BNP Paribas Group since 1st July 2025 following the closing of its acquisition.
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) is the asset manager of BNP Paribas, a leading banking group in Europe with international reach.
Among the top three asset managers in Europe, BNPP AM manages more than €1.6 trillion in assets for institutional, corporate, retail and wealth clients worldwide, combining liquid and alternative capabilities with a leadership position in long-term savings management for insurers and pension funds (€850 billion AUM).
BNPP AM offers a broad range of liquid investment solutions, spanning fixed income, high conviction active strategies and a fast-growing ETF offering, together representing over €1 trillion in assets under management.
The alternatives platform, built on over 30 years of experience, is the largest in Europe and a global leader, managing approximately €300 billion across real estate, infrastructure, alternative credit and private equity.
Sustainable and thematic investment capabilities are embedded across the business, supporting client’s long-term objectives.
BNPP AM brings together expert professionals across nearly 40 countries, blending global reach with local expertise.
Description of the role:
As a Global Marketing Intern, you will support the delivery of both tactical activation and strategic campaigns aimed at institutional clients. Working within the institutional segment marketing team, you will gain hands-on experience in digital marketing, content creation and distribution, event coordination, and reporting, contributing to BNPP AM’s visibility and client engagement efforts.
Overall responsibilities:
You will play a key role in supporting our global and regional marketing activation, particularly by helping the delivery of marketing activities for the insurance, corporates and pension segments. Additionally, you will assist with ad hoc marketing projects as needed.
Main tasks:
- Help to deliver on strategic sales campaigns for the insurance and pension segments, by providing support for the delivery of activities such as email marketing, campaigns with institutional content partners, delivery of content items, production of videos, coordination of global events, updating global digital hubs, putting together result metrics and reports.
- Work closely with our main institutional markets to increase visibility of our key strategies (Equity, Fixed Income or Multi-Asset strategies) and align the distribution of content
- Learn how to use our email marketing tools and work closely with marketing colleagues to deliver an engaging email strategy for institutional clients and prospects. This will include the use of email templates, sales engagement and targeting, and reporting on results through the campaign management tool.
- Assist the global marketing team to further its profile and facilitate access to a global marketing content repository, this will involve taking responsibility for sharing segment content internally as well and being key in helping to maintain our global marketing SharePoint.
- Suggest/implement new processes, procedures or practices that help the team become a more efficient and effective resource for the BNPP AM business.
- Help manage the team’s overall efficiency by helping to schedule and prepare for meetings as well as maintaining workflows and pipeline documents as and when relevant.
- Structured development: The candidate will have the opportunity to shadow marketing managers and marketing executives over the course of the placement, to learn more about, and contribute to, global marketing strategy and execution within an international asset management business.
- Skills-based development: Over time the candidate will also take ownership of ad hoc marketing projects to develop project management and broader communications skills. The candidate will also be expected to develop investment knowledge and understanding of the fund management industry as a whole through exposure to fund management and investment sales teams.
Education Skills & Experience
- Currently entering the 3rd year of a 4-year degree, ideally with a focus on either marketing / communications / economics / finance / business
- A confident communicator with excellent written and spoken English
- Detail-oriented with strong organisational skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Creative, proactive, and eager to learn
- Previous interest or experience in financial markets is helpful
- Enthusiastic self-starter
What we offer
- This internship is an excellent opportunity to discover an international working environment. Due to our leading market position, you can gain strong exposure to a variety of complex issues that we face as a diverse investment manager
- You will be fully integrated to our team, and you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively and gain exposure to other departments such as sales and investments
- Autonomous, entrepreneurial and result driven culture where taking initiative is encouraged
- You will join a growing platform which will allow you to take on real responsibilities rapidly
- GBP 28,000 basic salary + competitive benefits package
What we expect from you
- Workplace professionalism
- Physical attendance to the office 3-4 days a week
- Curiosity
- Commitment
- Willingness to learn & grow
Please join us to realise your potential to drive progress, for yourself, our clients and the world in which we live
