Digital Advertising Apprentice

KYOTO DIGITAL LIMITED

DERBY (DE1 1EQ)

Closes in 9 days (Tuesday 6 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 16 April 2025

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Summary

If you're a creative, detail-oriented individual passionate about digital innovation and eager to launch your career in digital advertising, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and join Kyoto Digital’s growing team!

Wage

£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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• Central Derby city centre location • Professional development funding (training, certifications, conferences) • Performance bonuses (annual and project-based) • Complimentary tea, coffee, and snacks • High-spec laptop and technology setup

Training course
Advertising and media executive (level 3)
Hours
• Monday to Friday (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM) • No weekends

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 12 May 2025

Duration

1 year 3 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

  • Content Creation: Develop engaging advertising content including videos and graphics using Canva, ensuring alignment with our clients' brand identities.
  • Campaign Optimisation: Assist regularly in optimising advertising campaigns across various digital platforms to boost overall performance.
  • Reporting: Prepare detailed advertising performance reports to communicate insights and improvements clearly to clients.
  • Research: Conduct market and competitor analysis to inform strategic decision-making.
  • Email Marketing: Utilise Mailchimp to create and manage effective email marketing campaigns aimed at driving sales and customer engagement.
  • Analytics Review: Regularly analyse performance data and present actionable insights to enhance campaign effectiveness.
    Social Media Support: Assist with managing and enhancing Kyoto Digital’s own social media campaigns, driving engagement and brand awareness.
  • Project Collaboration: Collaborate closely with developers, marketers, and clients to ensure cohesive strategy implementation and high-quality deliverables.
  • Trend Awareness: Continuously stay informed about industry trends, emerging tools, and technologies, integrating this knowledge into client strategies.

Where you’ll work

THE OLD POST OFFICE
VICTORIA ST
DERBY
DE1 1EQ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

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

Training will be completed on site at Employer's premises. 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4/C or Above)
  • Mathematics (grade 4/C or Above)

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
  • Presentation skills
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this company

Kyoto Digital is a dynamic digital advertising agency specialising in creating impactful paid advertising campaigns across Google, Bing, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram. We empower small to medium-sized businesses to drive success, grow sustainably, and achieve their marketing goals. We are currently seeking an ambitious Digital Advertising Apprentice to join our rapidly expanding team.

https://kyotodigital.co.uk (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

• Bereavement leave • Casual dress policy • Regular company events • Discounted or free food • Sick pay • Parking reimbursement • Competitive pension scheme • Clear pathways for career growth into senior leadership roles

After this apprenticeship

Clear pathways for career growth into senior leadership roles.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BLUE LION TRAINING ACADEMY LIMITED

Kam

kam@bluelionta.com

01332 738625

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000316054.

Apply now

Closes in 9 days (Tuesday 6 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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