Multi-Channel Marketer Apprentice

Summary

Join our Marketing team as an Apprentice! You'll learn hands-on skills across social media, content, campaigns and digital tools while supporting exciting projects. A great first step into a fast-paced, creative marketing career.

Wage

£13,741 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course

Multi-channel marketer (level 3)

Hours

Working hours - to be confirmed.

35 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 8 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

We’re looking for a motivated and creative individual to join our busy Marketing team at Hippo Motor Group as a Marketing Apprentice. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to start their career in marketing, working alongside an experienced and supportive team in a fast-paced automotive business.

The role will sit within the central Marketing Department, supporting both the Hippo Approved and Hippo Leasing brands. You’ll get hands-on experience across a range of marketing activities and will contribute to real campaigns from day one.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the team in delivering marketing campaigns (email, paid media, print)
Help maintain and update website content
Monitor campaign performance and compile basic reports
Attend team meetings and take notes or actions where required
Conduct market research to support campaign planning
Support event planning and other marketing projects as needed

You’ll work closely with:

Our Marketing Team and Managers
The Social Media, Content, and Product teams
Other internal departments including Sales, Product, and CRM
External partners such as creative agencies and digital consultants

This is an exciting position designed to give you broad exposure to the world of marketing and the automotive sector. You’ll be fully supported through your apprenticeship and encouraged to grow your skills and confidence.

Where you'll work

Trident Park Trident Way
Blackburn
BB1 3NU

Training

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

College or training organisation

BLACKBURN COLLEGE

Your training course

Multi-channel marketer (level 3)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines
Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.
Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.
Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.
Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.
Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.
Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.
Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.
Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.
Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are co-ordinated and legally compliant.
Use a website content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.
Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.
Use technology and software packages to support day to day activities, e.g., stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.
Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.
Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.
Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.
Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.
Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines
Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.
Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.
Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.
Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.
Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.
Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.
Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.
Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.
Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are co-ordinated and legally compliant.
Use a website content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.
Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.
Use technology and software packages to support day to day activities, e.g., stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.
Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.
Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.
Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.
Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.

Your training plan

Training will take place at Blackburn College, once a week:

Blackburn College
Feilden Street
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB2 1LH

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English Language (grade 4)
Mathematics (grade 4)

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
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Creative
Confident over the telephone

About this company

The Group comprises of 4 companies that cover all your needs from car leasing, finance, new and used cars and vans and Prestige cars all expertly prepared at our state of the art Hippo Service Centre.

http://www.hippomotorgroup.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Career Advancement, Professional Development, Skill Diversification, Long-term, Stability.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

BLACKBURN COLLEGE

Apprenticeships Team

apprenticeships@blackburn.ac.uk

01254 292500

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000319311.

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Closes on Friday 29 August 2025

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