Responsibilities

• Key Responsibilities What will you be involved in?
• Are you creative, curious about audiences and digital trends, and passionate about telling stories that genuinely engage people? This graduate opportunity is designed to help you kick-start your career with hands-on experience, structured support and meaningful work from day one.
• As a Graduate for the Small & Accountants BU within the Brand Strategy & Creative team, you will join a passionate and ambitious team working across brand strategy, creative development, content, social and campaign production. You will gain practical experience supporting campaigns, coordinating creative work, connecting with market and customer insights, helping bring ideas to life across channels, and learning how brand, creative, content, social and marketing teams work together across the UK. You will be supported by a dedicated manager throughout the programme, with structured onboarding, regular coaching and feedback, mentoring from experienced marketing professionals, and a personalised development plan to help you build confidence, capability and a strong portfolio of work.
• During the programme, you will support our campaign managers with a range of activities including:
• • Helping execute marketing campaigns across paid, organic, social, web, email, events and partner channels, including campaign delivery for major brand moments.
• • Coordinating campaign assets, keeping project timelines moving and helping manage trackers, Workfront tasks, approvals and team administration.
• • Supporting influencer and social activations, including briefing support, social copy checks, content capture and event-related social moments.
• • Researching industry trends, customer needs, audience behaviours and creative opportunities.
• • Working with other teams across content, social, performance marketing, sponsorship, PR, agencies and regional teams to deliver integrated campaigns.
• • Helping to pull together agency and internal team briefs for new assets and campaigns.

Requirements

• A genuine interest in marketing campaigns, brand, creative, digital trends and audience behaviour
• Creative curiosity and the confidence to contribute ideas
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Good attention to detail, especially when reviewing copy, assets and campaign materials
• Organisation, proactivity and the ability to manage deadlines across multiple tasks
• A collaborative mindset and the confidence to work with people across different teams, markets and levels
• An interest in storytelling, brand, customers and how content can influence action
• Comfort working with data, performance results and audience insights, or a willingness to learn
• A practical, can-do approach to problem solving and project coordination
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Benefits

• Benefits of working at Sage include
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays from day one
• Paid time to learn (5 learning days a year)
• Paid time to give back (5 volunteering days a year)
• Private healthcare, digital GP & wellbeing support
• Competitive pension with Sage contributions
• Paid parental leave, inclusive from day one
• Work from abroad for up to 10 weeks a year
• Discounts on tech, travel, gyms and more
• Cycle to Work and EV schemes