Advertising & Media Apprentice

Summary

An opportunity to put your creative stamp on the marketing and advertising for an exciting business.

Annual wage: £13,312 a year
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Training course: Advertising and media executive (level 3)
Hours: Monday - Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
40 hours a week
Possible start date: Friday 1 November
Duration: 1 Year 6 Months
Positions available: 1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Social Media marketing
Advertising Campaigns
Cold Calling and Sales

Where you’ll work

BRADLEY HOUSE

BRADLEY ROAD

STOURBRIDGE

WEST MIDLANDS

DY8 1UZ

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

BLUE LION TRAINING ACADEMY LIMITED

Your training course

Advertising and media executive (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Identify the ways in which creative and media can help organisations to achieve corporate objectives

Dispassionately structure problems and approaches to solving them

Manage projects using project management techniques in order to ensure campaigns are on track, e.g. accurate timing plans, and they are also successfully managing their to do list

Make use of the systems and technologies that are used in agencies to help plan, budget and bill

Produce professional communication e.g. correct names, spelling, grammar, branding on e.g. PowerPoint, emails, minutes, reports

Manage timelines effectively, prioritising appropriately

Apply knowledge of the interface and the dynamics of the different agencies (mainly media and creative) for a smooth flow of work

Adhere to the legislative regulations that apply in the advertising and media industry plus their own organisational policies and procedures

Demonstrate some upward, some supplier and client management around commercial realities e.g. a new digital opportunity or a TV production problem

Help solve practical and creative problems (e.g. report on consumer habits, gathering useful data around evaluation) within defined budgets and timescales, influencing outcomes without jeopardising relationships

Use third party management techniques combined with interpersonal skills (e.g. active listening, and influencing) to communicate effectively with all, e.g. coordinating response to a client brief

Ensures the delivery of that supply chain value, on time

Deploy the right digital medium to guarantee the most effective result e.g, using Google Analytics to check key words

Communicate with clients, colleagues, regulatory bodies (such as the Advertising Standards Authority or Clearcast), suppliers (such as photographers or research companies); by phone, in meetings, through presentations, in emails and written documents such as agendas, competitive reviews, proposals, minutes of calls/meetings, status reports. Co-ordinate feedback.

Apply their understanding of creative and production techniques to help the idea appear in the correct format

Apply their understanding of the different elements of a creative idea to help evaluate the different elements and guide the execution phase to protect the most important ones

Help obtain the right data

Able to understand and report differences in ways competitor brands market themselves

Ability to influence people e.g. clients to buy amended creative work or authorise a late invoice

Coordinate responses to media owners and intermediaries (including automated platforms), helping manage all aspects of the process

Apply their knowledge of media buying to communicate with clients, colleagues, regulatory bodies (such as the Advertising Standards Authority), media owners (such as commercial television channels, newspapers/magazines, billboard companies etc.), or media intermediaries/platforms (such as programmatic advertising platforms, Facebook, Google); by phone, in meetings, through presentations, in emails and written documents such as a media plan

How to access the media metric data and report it accurately to the team regularly

Help research how the message/creative idea might be best distributed to reach the target audience in the most effective way e.g. time of day, and make recommendations based on this

How to negotiate for long term relationships

Identify the ways in which creative and media can help organisations to achieve corporate objectives

Dispassionately structure problems and approaches to solving them

Manage projects using project management techniques in order to ensure campaigns are on track, e.g. accurate timing plans, and they are also successfully managing their to do list

Make use of the systems and technologies that are used in agencies to help plan, budget and bill

Produce professional communication e.g. correct names, spelling, grammar, branding on e.g. PowerPoint, emails, minutes, reports

Manage timelines effectively, prioritising appropriately

Apply knowledge of the interface and the dynamics of the different agencies (mainly media and creative) for a smooth flow of work

Adhere to the legislative regulations that apply in the advertising and media industry plus their own organisational policies and procedures

Demonstrate some upward, some supplier and client management around commercial realities e.g. a new digital opportunity or a TV production problem

Help solve practical and creative problems (e.g. report on consumer habits, gathering useful data around evaluation) within defined budgets and timescales, influencing outcomes without jeopardising relationships

Use third party management techniques combined with interpersonal skills (e.g. active listening, and influencing) to communicate effectively with all, e.g. coordinating response to a client brief

Ensures the delivery of that supply chain value, on time

Deploy the right digital medium to guarantee the most effective result e.g, using Google Analytics to check key words

Your training plan

Advertising and Media Executive Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard

Requirements

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

About this company

Our ethos is simple, we offer a range of to go Fairtrade hot drinks in convenience stores and hospitality sites. We are the first to go station that can offer both dairy and non dairy options in the one station. Our coffee is based on a blend of arabica and Robusta beans, a nice smooth blend that packs a punch. Our chocolate is a special blend of Belgium cocoa, comfort in a cup. The tea, old-fashioned, freshly brewed leaf tea and strong like builders. Our cups are like our stations, both green in colour but also green in nature, all our cups are recyclable, compostable, PE and PLA free. looking after our planet one coffee cup at a time.

http://www.mycoffeestation.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

You will have the oppurtunity to help the business grow and have a career that will grow with it

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