Advertising & Media Apprentice

Responsibilities

• The next generation of advertising and media professionals is incredibly important to our growth, not just as a business, but for our entire industry.
• We’re looking for an apprentice who is passionate about starting their career in the world of advertising and media.
• The world is obsessed by small start-ups or the largest corporates. Most UK media agencies are built to serve the top 100 spending clients, and there are a multitude of boutique agencies to serve those starting out in business.
• Our clients span large privately owned businesses (often PE backed, founder-led or both) and small to mid-cap public enterprises. They are fighting larger, more established competitors and know they need to think and behave differently to win.
• They don’t conform to category norms. Since they can’t out-spend their competition, disruption is the safest move they can make.
• The marketers leading these brands are innovative, resourceful, moving at pace and in all-out growth mode. They’re powerful; redefining categories, overtaking and acquiring traditional businesses and changing consumer behaviour along with it.
• Our clients share three common yet exciting challenges which define everything we do as an agency:
• Consumer – customer acquisition is key to their success
• Company – they are highly ambitious and built lean
• Category – they are often outspent by their competitors, need to outmanoeuvre the competition and are passionate about disrupting an established category

Requirements

• Using research tools such as TGI, Touchpoints and Nielsen competitive, you’ll learn how to uncover media, market and audience information, creating insights that will contribute to designing and developing client communication strategies.
• Working with our media planners, you’ll learn to write great briefs for our external media partners and internal specialist teams to produce best-in-class media proposals that innovatively deliver our client strategies.
• You’ll learn about in-campaign optimisation and post-campaign analysis, contributing research to support the planning process from briefing all the way through to campaign evaluation.
• Work with our Operations Team to ensure our media campaigns are executed in the way they were designed – this includes providing great customer service to our clients, confirming orders and working with our Finance team to resolve any billing queries and Inputting bookings into our CRM system with 100% accuracy, ensuring zero financial variances/queries.
• Being the primary point of contact for basic advertising schedule amends/applied optimisation as we are constantly making improvements for our clients
• Running daily reports of live advertising campaigns contributing to ad-hoc, mid or post advertising campaign analysis reports. This will involve adhering to rigorous processes with the greatest attention to detail which will result in assisting the delivery team in schedule creation, processing and improvement.
• Being proficient with key campaign management and reporting tools across TV, online media, print etc.
• You will form good relationships with Media Owners/Suppliers.
• Create campaigns in a variety of online media disciplines like programmatic display, affiliate, online video, paid search and paid social.
• Stay on top of latest industry news and trends so we can deliver market leading, innovative plans Establish strong working knowledge of online tools such as: Partnerise (Affiliate), Google Analytics, Google Ads, Facebook, SimilarWeb, AdDynamix, Concept (CRM), etc.

Preferred

• Further education (A-Levels) is beneficial.

Benefits

• We provide an exciting, fast paced, people first environment that allows everyone to grow, learn and thrive.
• We work a 9-day fortnight, meaning staff have every other Friday off!
• We’ve built a benefits package that invests in our employees’ long-term personal and professional growth and wellbeing.