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Sony Pictures Entertainment

Feb 12, 2024

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Off-cycle Internship
  • Marketing
  • London

Requirements

  • Research Focused and Analytical
  • Curiosity to gain new knowledge and research required facts about suppliers e.g. company websites etc.
  • Ability to analyse data sets (e.g. supplier proposals) to find trends and useful observations and provide options/recommendations based on the data
  • Team Player
  • Enjoy working with cross functional teams (e.g. Marketing, Finance, etc).
  • Project Management
  • Able to coordinate, priorities and deliver numerous projects to the expect quality and required timescales.
  • Presentation skills
  • Able to present sophisticated analysis and data to a range of stakeholders in succinct and engaging way
  • Personable and Persuasive
  • Being able to build and develop relationships with key stakeholders across seniority levels and being able to advise and persuade them when required.
  • Finance Awareness
  • Application of financial skills when carrying our procurement processes and analysing vendor proposals
  • Familiar with Microsoft 365 applications
  • Including Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.

Responsibilities

  • The projects will primarily be within the Marketing and Production category team, however there will be opportunities to assist with projects in the Professional Services and Corporate Services categories. Within the Marketing and Production category the projects will cover the following subcategories:
  • Media
  • Creative
  • PR & Promotions
  • Print
  • Market Research
  • Market Operations
  • Production Goods
  • Production Services
  • You will work with a wide range of stakeholders varying across internal business units (such as the Motion Picture Group (MPG) and Home Entertainment and TV Distribution) and potentially across different territories (EMEA, LATAM, North America).
  • Experience you will gain:
  • Development of a strong understanding of the end-to-end procurement process
  • Supporting various Request for Proposal (RFP) processes. For example capturing information from suppliers to evaluate proposals, carrying out analysis of pricing proposals, compiling decks to compare proposals etc.
  • Learn to analyse Supplier Spend data
  • Project management
  • Delivering and assisting to deliver projects to a high standard and to varying timescales
  • Specific industry and market knowledge
  • Entertainment and film industry knowledge
  • Specific category knowledge (e.g. marketing)
  • Stakeholder management – learning to interact with a wide range of stakeholders across the business
  • Across seniority levels
  • Across different territories
  • Negotiation skills
  • Understanding of contracts
  • Financial foresight e.g understanding of key cost drivers and how this impacts total cost
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Sony Pictures Entertainment

Entertainment & Media
Industry
5001-10,000
Employees

Mission & Purpose

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production and distribution; television production and distribution; digital content creation and distribution; worldwide channel investments; home entertainment acquisition and distribution, operation of studio facilities; development of new entertainment products, services and technologies; and distribution of filmed entertainment in more than 130 countries.