You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

Job Description – Marketing MBA Summer Internship

As marketers at one of the most iconic brands in the world, we play a major role in building authentic relationships with customers who impact life and business around the world. Here, creativity and inspired storytelling combine with powerful data-based marketing and hyper-personalized digital communication to create a genuine human connection that drives business results. As a part of our diverse community of marketers, you can have a breadth of different marketing experiences and do virtually anything from connecting small businesses to new customers to uncovering insights that inspire the future of payments. Create a dynamic career while doing work that matters for people and businesses everywhere. Find your place in marketing on #TeamAmex.

Business Unit/Role Specific Info

Marketing is fundamental to driving growth in our businesses. On our marketing internship programme, you will be able to have real business impact by defining data-driven, customer-centric, marketing strategies across the organisation and turn them into tangible deliverables for senior leaders. You will have the chance to create compelling value propositions, marketing strategies and recommendations based on extensive market and consumer data and thus have a tangible impact.

We are looking for strategic problem solvers who can innovate, collaborate and possess a strong desire to address real business problems and drive new opportunities with break-through marketing strategies.

Through the well-established Summer Internship programme, driven MBA students will gain hands-on experience in projects that have strategic, operational or financial significance to the company. Interns will get executive exposure, have the opportunity to network and learn about the Amex culture as well as participate in social and community service activities. More specifically, the 10-week programme, commencing in June 2024 consists of the following:

• Introduction to American Express through an induction day and training sessions
• Meaningful projects which will have real business impact
• Regular Speaker Series with senior management
• Social and networking events
• Structured performance management process and regular feedback

Skills/Experience

• Proven strategic thought leadership to get results
• Strong analytical, problem-solving/quantitative skills. Confident leveraging large volumes of data to create meaningful, compelling insights.
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills vital to building strong internal relationships and external partnerships.
• Strong customer focus and project management skills
• Passion for leading people and teams and a strong collaborator with the ability to work across a matrix organisation.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to conceptualise and sell ideas.
• Strong understanding of relationship building, managing stakeholders and networking.
• Results-oriented team player and individual contributor.

• Proficient in analytical and presentation tools, including MS Excel and PowerPoint.

Requirements/Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an MBA programme with a graduation date between December 2025 and July 2026

The final application deadline is Sunday 26th January 2025 11:59pm GMT.

About AMEX

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what’s possible— and we’re proud to back each other every step of the way.

Join #TeamAmex and let’s lead the way together.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by law.

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We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.