Website Marketing Assistant; Undergraduate Placement Year 2027-28

Welcome to Kia UK!

Kia UK is a leading automotive brand offering one of the industry’s largest range of models across multiple vehicle segments, contributing to it being the fourth most popular UK car brand in 2025. With more than 190 Kia dealerships across the country, Kia is now widely known for its advanced electrified products offering the technology of tomorrow, today.

Kia UK has consistently grown for over 30 years, supported by bold design, quality products and ever-evolving customer service. By 2027, the brand aims to offer no less than nine fully electric vehicles in the UK, a positive step towards becoming a leading global sustainable mobility solutions provider.

People are central to Kia UK and every day is an opportunity to learn something new and to grow personally and professionally. This was recognised with Kia UK named as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces 2024, 2025 and 2026 by Great Place To Work, and also ranked in the 2025 & 2026 Best Workplaces for Women, Development, Wellbeing, and Manufacturing, Production & Transportation.

Kia employees reported positively on areas such as working atmosphere, trust in management, corporate strategy, pride in working for the company, benefits, facilities and much more!

The Website Marketing Assistant is responsible for assisting with the development, implementation, and monitoring of website changes including campaigns, product information and search engine / AI search optimisations aimed at increasing website engagement and generating leads.

• Supporting the day-to-day delivery, maintenance and governance of  and Kia UK dealer websites, working closely with the Website Marketing Manager, Website Marketing Specialist and agency partners.
• Creating, updating and quality-checking web content, including product pages, campaign pages, news articles, SEO optimisations, imagery, specifications, pricing, and calls to action.
• Supporting major website launches and quarterly campaign updates, ensuring content is accurate, on brand, customer-friendly and delivered to agreed timings.
• Implementing SEO and AI recommendations across new and existing pages, including news articles, page optimisations, metadata, website internal links and content tracker updates.
• Helping improve Kia’s search visibility across traditional search and emerging AI search by supporting SEO, generative AI search optimisation, Brand Insights AI activity and content discoverability.
• Monitoring website performance and producing regular reporting inputs for weekly performance updates across the Brand Communications, Marketing and Commercial teams.
• Supporting campaign and product reporting by collating website traffic, lead, conversion and content performance data, then summarising key insights for internal stakeholders.
• Working with agency partners to support delivery, track actions, review recommendations and ensure updates are implemented correctly.
• Supporting dealer website activity, including dealer page updates, appointment changes and dealer content governance.
• Carrying out content quality checks, model page audits and product update checks to help ensure website information remains accurate, compliant and aligned with wider marketing activity.
• Preparing clear handover notes, process documentation and guidance to support continuity across the website team and future placement students.

The Marketing team is run with a high-performance culture, operating with genuine collaboration, clear communication, setting high standards and leading by example. We invest heavily in our employees, and you will be fully supported throughout your internship with us. You will gain a huge amount of experience, knowledge and technical skill to set you up for a successful career, and we pride ourselves on retaining great talent – in fact, we have hired several previous interns after they have completed the final year of their degree.

The ideal candidate will be:

• Studying a relevant degree (e.g. a Business or Marketing related subject)
• Able to work effectively within a team and independently.
• Passionate and hard-working, open to developing knowledge and…