Field Marketing Intern - English and Italian Speaking - 12 Month Fixed Term Placement -

About Us

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos' complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

The Field Marketing Intern, with excellent English and Italian language skills, will be part of the EMEA Marketing Internship team. This is a 12 month paid internship starting in June 2026 through to the end of June 2027. This role will report to the Director of EMEA Channel Marketing and deliver marketing support across the EMEA region to implement marketing campaigns, support with event and webinar delivery, monitor social media platforms, and conduct analysis and reporting on the activity. They will also be supporting the Italian Field Marketing team with the specific marketing tasks, where the Italian language is required.

In addition to being a skilled communicator, the candidate should have excellent multitasking and organisational abilities. This internship will allow the candidate to acquire essential marketing skills, work with marketing experts across the globe, and provide them with knowledge of various marketing strategies and platforms. Ultimately, you will gain comprehensive experience with a wide range of transferable skills in marketing to prepare them to enter any fast-paced environment in the future.

This person needs to be a motivated team-player who is organized, result driven, diligent and ideally speaks one or multiple core EMEA languages with Italian being mandatory and German, Spanish, French optional.

This position is being offered as fully remote with a requirement to attend our headquarters in Abingdon, Oxfordshire on a regular basis (no less than once a month) to meet with the wider team.

What You Will Do:

• Support with virtual and in-person events - event registration pages, social media promotion, creation of delegate packs, event reporting, and where necessary, attend the events.
• Support the webinar programme - webinar creation, scheduling, registration tracking, webinar hosting, and post-webinar reporting.
• Using internal systems such as Salesforce, Asana, Zoom and Microsoft Teams to update information, manage your workload, and effectively communicate with the marketing team.
• Create copy and content for key marketing communications and use supporting creative tools such as Taxi, Goldcast, and Canva to build emails, event registration pages and social media posts.
• Help to ensure that the wider Sophos teams, including the regional sales teams, are kept up-to-date with planned marketing activities.
• Support Sophos EMEA and Italian team in preparing and executing marketing activities and campaigns.

What You Will Bring:

• Currently a graduate student within a Marketing discipline seeking a 12 month industry placement.
• A keen interest in Marketing and a desire to develop commercial experience in this field.
• Good project management and organisational skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong Italian language skills, both spoken and written.
• Strong English language, both spoken and written.
• Confident, self-motivated, and able to manage own workload.
• Previous work experience in an office environment desired.
• Commences: 8th of June 2026.
• Contract Type: 12 month fixed term contract.
• Contract Hours: Full time.
• Location: Remote but able to attend our Abingdon, Oxfordshire headquarters no less than once per month.

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Ready to Join Us?

At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back - we encourage you to apply.

What's Great About Sophos?

• Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.

• Our people - we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit

• Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy

• Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities

• Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint

• Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp

• Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge

• Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

Our Commitment To You

We're proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we're committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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