Marketing Manager

COMPANY: Cisco

JOB TITLE: Marketing

• Works in a small team of 3 people in the European marketing team
• Works out ways to drive more traffic to the website
• Driving awareness in the finance sector by creating publicity materials

RELATED DEGREE:

• Studied Economics, Graphics and other subjects at A Level
• Studied Business Studied specialising in Marketing at City University

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Started as an intern at Cisco Capital Marketing to test the waters
• Became a permanent member of the marketing team after the year's internship

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Important to have experience of marketing as textbooks only give you certain amount of knowledge
• Have to be enthusiastic

BENEFITS OF THE JOB:

• Enjoy the people and the working culture
• Get to work in a global team
• Job is different on a daily basis - could be meeting agencies one day, working in the US the next day

CAREER GOALS:

• Would like to have a family and a career at the same time
• Would like to be up the ladder at Cisco in 5 years time!