Degree Apprenticeship in Digital Marketing

E.ON UK PLC

Nottingham, NG1 4BX

Closes in 26 days (Sunday 16 February)

Posted on 16 January 2025


Summary

We're looking for Digital Marketing Degree Apprentices to join our scheme for 2025! At E.ON, we’re more than a provider of gas and electricity, we’re shaping a cleaner, more sustainable energy future. Join us as an apprentice and you’ll play an important role in helping our customers take control of their energy use.

Annual wage
Competitive

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We offer a competitive starting salary, with potential for pay progression throughout your apprenticeship based on academic and placement performance.

Training course
Digital marketer (integrated degree) (level 6)
Hours
Monday to Friday, 8.30am - 5.00pm.

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 22 September

Duration

3 years 6 months

Positions available

2

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

Embark on a four-year Digital Marker Apprenticeship and you’ll play a vital role in shaping, designing and executing end-to-end marketing activity, with a keen focus on digitalisation. You’ll work with diverse teams across the business through six-month placements while studying part-time at Nottingham Trent University for a fully-funded BA (Hons) Digital Marketing. During the programme, you'll have the opportunity to select placements based on your interests and career goals, like:

  • Planning and executing digital campaigns (e.g. awareness, lead generation, product launches) and analysing campaign performance through data.
  • Using market and customer insights to create strategy and content for various digital channels to connect and engage with our target audiences.
  • Creating engaging stories around sustainability and energy solutions which resonate with the target audience and support SEO efforts.
  • Optimising the customer journey by analysing user behaviour, improving website functionality and testing digital assets for better engagement.
  • Developing a deep understanding of digital advertising and SEO strategies and how to use data to optimise campaigns.

Where you’ll work

Trinity House

2 Burton Street

Nottingham

NG1 4BX

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

NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY

Your training course

Digital marketer (integrated degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents
  • Develop and critically apply the concepts, principles and theories of marketing relevant to the interdisciplinary topics of digital marketing
  • Apply the 4 marketing principles (product, price, place, promotion) and considerations of the business / marketing campaign.
  • Write and create content for the different audiences, online channels and create clear “Call to Actions” and user journey’s
  • Demonstrate how to promote and apply content marketing effectively through the appropriate media channels, relationship management systems and communication platforms to ensure brand and cultural awareness are maintained throughout marketing strategies.
  • Select a variety of appropriate research methodologies, platforms and technologies to synthesise information and apply to the organisation’s digital marketing strategies, drivers and customer behaviours
  • Manage, plan, specify, lead and report on digital marketing projects.
  • Manage and optimise key channels and content within a digital marketing plan.
  • Manage interfaces and the supply network of the organisation and customer by applying the appropriate E-commerce strategies and models available and whenever appropriate taking global engagements into account.
  • Apply a marketing mix / digital marketing mix to meet customer expectations.
  • Accurately observe, record and draw conclusions from all types statistical analysis of campaign performance, recognising inherent uncertainties and limitations with financial and budgetary requirements to demonstrate Return on Investment (ROI).
  • Engage communities through Email Marketing and Social Media to stimulate and encourage communication through positive discussion and engagement.
  • Apply the appropriate tools for a data-led approach to analyse marketing information and platforms, data and social media and recognise what is actually important for insights and optimisation to provide solutions for marketing decisions
  • Contribute to business, planning and marketing strategies to recognise and respond quickly to opportunities and customer requirements whilst embracing change.
  • Identify, recognise and understand internal and external business intelligence and factors that may impact future operations.
  • Interpret, communicate and brief internal or external stakeholders on digital business requirements.

Your training plan

Your base location will be our Nottingham office. We operate a hybrid working model, so depending on placements you will be expected in the office 1-3 days a week, with the flexibility to work from home on other days. Company-funded travel will be required, and you may have placement opportunities at other E.ON sites across the UK.

Your academic studies require you to be on campus on day or block release at NTU Business School on the city campus. 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • 5 Subjects inc English & Maths (grade 4/C or above)

A Level in:

  • 4 Subjects or BTEC equivalent (grade 104 UCAS points)

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
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative

Other requirements

You may only apply for one E.ON degree/level 7 apprenticeship scheme, so please choose the one that best aligns with your career goals.

About this company

E.ON is a privately owned international energy company. Our 75,000 colleagues in 15 countries work daily towards the improvement of technical innovations and user-friendly customer solutions for the new energy world. We are the first large energy company to focus more heavily upon the energy of the future through our three business areas of energy networks, renewable energies and customer solutions.

Company benefits

Our benefits package includes a pension scheme, 26 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and 20 flexible benefits options.

After this apprenticeship

  • Possibility of permanent employment with Eon subject to performance.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY

EarlyCareers@eon-uk.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000296725.

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Closes in 26 days (Sunday 16 February)

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