Marketing Apprentice
17th May 2022
Are you looking for a way into industry? Specifically marketing within a fast-pace agency environment?
This could be the opportunity for you…
What will you be doing as an apprentice?
- Manage and maintain client websites including copy and images
- Execute digital marketing, including SEO/SEM, marketing database, email, social media and display advertising campaigns
- Maintain our digital & social media presence
- Measure and report performance of client digital marketing campaigns, and assess against goals (ROI and KPIs)
- Manage HotJar data and analysis
- Brainstorm new and creative growth strategies
- Plan, execute and measure experiments and conversion tests
- Collaborate with internal teams to support content development
- Create content for social media (Both client and for the agency)
What training will the apprentice take and what qualification will the apprentice get at the end?
Marketing Executive Level 4 apprenticeship
The apprenticeship is designed to be completed in 18 months
There is no guaranteed role at the end of the apprenticeship, but the ambition is that you will be offered a full-time position on completion of the training
Desired skills and personal qualities
- Creative (vital)
- Keenness in current digital trends
- Ability to write
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Qualifications
GCSE or equivalent Maths and English (Grade 4-9) – Essential
A-Level or GNVQ/B-Tec (Grade Pass) – Desired
Other Degree (Grade Pass) – Desired
Who are we?
At Bopgun we use creative ideas to solve commercial problems. We cut our teeth designing print materials, magazines and websites driving customers to our clients businesses. Since then we have won awards for the campaigns that we have done. Our key skills are:
- Designing and building beautiful and commercially valuable websites
- Video production and motion graphics to excite, to inform and to promote
- Email for subscription retention, renewal and sales
- Clever and inspiring adverts for print, TV and online
- Brand logo designs that tell a story
What’s our aspirations?
As mentioned above, we’re growing – having recently appointed a director of marketing and with our non-exec director onboard we have some great plans for the future. We’re working hard on the backbone of the business while constantly working with an enviable group of clients. As the directors we don’t want to be so big that we’re not involved anymore but we’re also building a robust business with careers for everyone involved.
Where are we?
So why’s that important? Well some people want to be in the city and some people love the country – we have the best of both. The studio is situated on a beautiful farm with over 40 acres of land to enjoy. A lovely lake where you can sit and chill beside and never a problem with parking. But also we’re a 10 minute hop to the centre of Bath so you can easily pop in of a lunchtime or alternatively down the road to the local out-of-town complex.
What next?
If this sounds up your street, send us a brief explanation of why you’d like to work in our studio along with your CV, not forgetting any links to projects you have worked on and what elements you were involved in to careers@bopgun.com. Please note that due to high response level of previous positions we might not be able to contact every unsuccessful candidate.
Salary
National minimum wage (depending on age) plus benefits:
- Potential to join workplace pension
- Member of Bristol Creative Industries (perks)
- Coffee better than Costa or Starbucks
- Fully filled fruit bowl
- Studio dog (for friendly cuddles)
- Quarterly Friday pub trip
- Beautiful countryside surroundings – Fields to walk and lake to chill by
- Birthday celebrations at the pub (booze subject to age) – plus free half day holiday!
- 20 days holiday, all bank holidays plus Christmas break
Closing date
We’re looking to fill this roll as soon as possible, for more information contact careers@bopgun.com
