DHL Express
Hospitality Graduate
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Location: Southern Hub, Colnbrook, SL3 0BB
Contract: Full Time
Start your marketing career with the world’s leading logistics company.
At DHL Express, we connect people and businesses across the globe and our sponsorships play a key role in bringing our brand to life. From world class sporting partnerships to high impact events and customer experiences, we’re looking for a passionate and driven graduate to join our Sponsorship team.
This is your chance to gain hands-on experience across marketing, events, communications, and brand activations, working alongside experienced professionals in a fast-paced, exciting environment.
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Hospitality Graduate, you’ll support the delivery of hospitality campaigns and unforgettable customer experiences, including:
Hospitality Communications
- Assist in the development of hospitality campaigns.
- Support promotion of events across customer and employee channels
- Develop Sales tools to support customer nominations
- Help manage campaign timelines and track deliverables
- Assist with internal communications and campaign updates
- Support reporting on campaign performance and engagement metrics
Sponsorship Team Support
- Helping manage ticketing, hospitality programmes, and internal requests
- Maintaining accurate records of campaigns, budgets, and assets
- Supporting presentations, reports, and stakeholder updates
- Coordinating with agencies, suppliers, and partners
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Events & Activations
- Supporting the planning and delivery of sponsorship activations and events
- Assisting with logistics such as venues, travel arrangements, and materials
- Playing an active role in on-site event delivery – from set-up to guest experience
- Supporting engagement activities for customers, employees, and partners
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone who is enthusiastic, organised, and ready to learn:
- A recent graduate in Marketing, Business Management, or a related field
- A strong interest in marketing, sponsorships, events, or communications
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
- A proactive, can-do attitude with the ability to multitask
- Comfortable working both independently and as part of a team
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
Nice to have (but not essential):
- Experience in social media or content creation
- Exposure to event planning or marketing projects
What You’ll Gain
- Hands-on experience working on global sponsorships and campaigns
- Exposure to live events, brand activations, and stakeholder management
- The opportunity to build skills in marketing, project management, and communications
- A structured environment to support your learning and career development
What We Offer
We believe in rewarding our people and investing in their future:
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- Competitive salary
- Performance-related bonus scheme
- Generous holiday allowance (increasing with service)
- Company pension with excellent contribution rates
- Life assurance
- Enhanced maternity and company sick pay
- Access to wellbeing support, mental health first aiders, and employee assistance programmes
- Discounts on retail, entertainment, gym membership and more
- Ongoing training, development, and strong internal career opportunities
Additional Information
- Flexibility to attend events, including occasional evenings and weekends
- Willingness to travel within the UK when required
Ready to launch your career with DHL Express?
If you’re passionate about marketing, events, and creating memorable brand experiences, we’d love to hear from you.
Equal Opportunities
We are committed to equal opportunity and reject any forms of discrimination. The basis for employee selection at DHL Group is qualification, performance, skills and experience.
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