Advertising & Media Apprentice
We are looking for Advertising & Media Apprentices to join us here at What’s Possible Group: the only harmonious marketing group for dynamic growth brands. 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 that is passionate about starting their career in the world of advertising and media.
What you’ll be doing:
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.Who you will be:
Most importantly, you will be eager and passionate about starting your career in advertising & media. It’s an awesome industry, lots of fun can be had but it does require hard work. You will be a people-person. Great at building and maintaining relationships, with a massive willingness to learn from those around you, and when you do learn it, you share it with others! You’ll ideally have achieved level 9-5 (A*-C) in Maths & English GCSE. Further education (A-Levels) is beneficial. You will have a keen eye for detail. We need to get things right for our clients, and there’s very little scope for error.Training:
Advertising & Media Executive Level 3 Standard
An advertising and media executive will help with the day to day progress of the whole advertising process, from receiving the brief from the marketing team, including objectives, budget and timescales, through to the measurement of how effective the advertisement has been. In their daily work, they will interact with many other people, processes and systems. (For example the client, 3rd party suppliers, the broad team at the agency.) They help campaigns move forward, coping with inevitable setbacks and changes in direction (some at the last minute), whilst showing collaboration and maintaining relationships with all. Usually, they report to an Account or Media Manager.
They usually specialise in one of two parts of the advertising process: the first is the process of producing the advertisement (creative); the second is the process of distributing the advertisement (media). Apprentices must therefore complete the core apprenticeship and one of these options.
Training Sessions Overview
Seminar 1: Preparing for your apprenticeship
Seminar 2: Preparing for your employer
Seminar 3: Introduction to advertising
Seminar 4: The foundation of advertising
Seminar 5: Understanding commercial
Seminar 6: Advertising campaigns
Seminar 7: Advertising and Media standards & legislation
Seminar 8: Principles of Project Management
Seminar 9: Supply Chain Management
Seminar 10: Principles of third party
Seminar 11: The briefing and approval processes
Seminar 12: The media buying process - TV
Seminar 13: The media buying process – Out of home, Radio and Print
Seminar 14: Negotiation techniques
Seminar 15: Data and media metrics
Seminar 16: Data and media metrics – Practical Excel session
Seminar 17: Media planning
Seminar 18: Distribution of Creative through the appropriate channels
Seminar 19: Evaluating campaign performance
For a full overview of the Advertising & Media Executive standard please click on the following link:
https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/advertising-and-media-executive-v1-0
Training Outcome:
Potential of a full time position is available for the right candidate upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
Employer Description:
What’s Possible Group is the only harmonious marketing group exclusively for marketers at entrepreneurial brands. Growth is your number one business priority, but targets grow faster than budgets, and resource and time are always limited. You have to outsmart wealthier market leaders while navigating your own fast-moving business (which might acquire tomorrow while disrupting your category today). You need to deliver tangible results and demonstrate them with metrics and language your board understands.
Working Hours :
Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.30pm. Or Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 6:00pm. We work a 9-day fortnight, meaning staff have every other Friday off!
Skills:
Communication skills,IT skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Problem solving skills,Analytical skills,Logical,Team working,Initiative