Eligibility Requirements

Successful Applicants Will Meet the Following Criteria 

Qualifications

  • A 3rd level qualification

Experience / Knowledge

  • A minimum of 2-3 years experience working within a client-facing environment
  • Fluency in a foreign language of the relevant market: French/German/Dutch/Spanish/Italian/Russian/Polish/Japanese/Korean or Chinese
  • Market research or sales or client interface experience desirable
  • Excellent report writing skills
  • Experience with M/S Excel, Powerpoint, Word and PM

Skills

Successful candidates will be self-starters and resilient with demonstrable records of self motivation and self discipline.  In addition, they will demonstrate:

  • Strong oral and written communication skills, and effective presentation skills.
  • Good influencing skills; with ability to quickly establish effective internal and external working relationships with key people across different services/functions.
  • Strong commercial acumen: ability to identify opportunities and to follow these through completion through working with others and discovering optimum routes to results.
  • Project management skills – ability to schedule and manage time and resources; maintaining a project management plan for communication and review at all times.

Additional requirements

It is a requirement that the Fellows are willing/able to live in a foreign country, and travel in-market at short notice and sometimes where public transport may be limited.

How to apply

You can apply for the Bord Bia marketing fellowship by completing an application form and uploading your CV.

For further information, please see the application guidelines.