Marketing Apprentice
Newport Pagnell, Milton Keynes, MK16 9EZ
Salary – up to £22,500 per annum (depending on age-range)
15 to 18-month Apprenticeship
Hybrid working model. Pension Scheme. Benefits and Discounts.
Are you looking for a role in Marketing? Are you looking to gain a professional qualification? Are you looking to work for one of the largest companies in the UK Motorway Hospitality Sector?
This role (along with gaining an industry-leading qualification) supports the Marketing division within the Commercial team.
What will your role look like?
As a Marketing Apprentice, you will be working within a busy team to support marketing and communication across Welcome Break
You will be undertaking a 15-month Apprenticeship course in Multi-Channel Marketing.
In your day-to-day job, you will be involved with:
- Developing the Welcome Break brand through social media, website and CRM content
- Supporting on delivering campaign plans, across all available channels
- Marketing of new sites, brands and unit refurbishments
- Delivering proactive PR
- Delivery of our fundraising events
- Creating copy to be used across all Marketing channels including the website, social media, promotional materials and events.
- Keeping website up-to-date
- Content for organic and paid social media calendar, and schedule into various platforms as appropriate
- Support with the SEO activities of the business
In your apprenticeship learning you will undertake:
- 15 months of learning, with an End-Point Assessment (EPA) period of 3 months
- Partake in a programme delivered via blended learning
- Virtual facilitated learning sessions
- Delegates complete learning sessions with their Apprenticeship Coach every 4-6 weeks
- Virtual learning platform
- Delegates are expected to carry out self-study using the online platform
- Webinars included to develop the knowledge required
- Regular contact with your Apprenticeship Coach via an online platform, email and telephone
- Undertake practice assessments at agreed milestones
Ideally, you will:
- Have an interest in marketing and a desire to start a career in this sector
- Be a self-starter, keen to learn and have the passion to undertake a professional qualification
- GCSE Maths and English C grade or above
- Have some experience working in an office setting
- A good level of IT Literacy – Microsoft Office suite
If the above hasn't convinced you, can we twist your arm with this?
- 30 days Holiday (inc. BH) - entitlement increases with service
- Pension Scheme
- Employee discounts (50% off onsite KFC, BK, Starbucks and Pizza Express to name a few)
- My Welcome Break discounts - savings at hundreds of retailers including Currys PC World, Nike, Ikea, Tesco, Asda, Argos, Booking.com etc
- Career progression and brilliant training programmes
- Cycle to work scheme - salary sacrifice scheme allows you to save money on bikes – including ebikes
- Free onsite parking at all Welcome Break sites
- Free lunch provided in the office (sandwiches, pasta pots, rolls) as well as Tea and Coffee
About Welcome Break
Welcome Break is one of the UK's leading motorway service operators, running 44 service areas and 31 hotels across the UK. Working for Welcome Break is not what it may seem to our everyday customer. When you come into one of our sites you will recognise your favourite brands such as Starbucks, Subway, WHSmith, KFC, Pizza Express and Burger King, as well hotels under the Ramada and Days Inn brands. But what might come as a surprise is that we are all one team and that even with different uniform, everyone works for Welcome Break.