Digital Design Apprentice
FRANKE COFFEE SYSTEMS UK LIMITED
Hertfordshire (AL2 2DQ)
Closes on Wednesday 1 October 2025
Posted on 21 August 2025
Contents
Summary
We are looking for a highly motivated and creative Digital Design Apprentice to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity for a designer to gain hands-on industry experience while studying towards a BA (Hons) Digital Design Integrated Degree Apprenticeship at Middlesex University.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Creative digital design professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5 pm
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Friday 10 October 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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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
You’ll work alongside our Marketing and Sales team, contributing to real projects and developing your skills across digital and print media. The individual will work across both the Franke and Dalla Corte brands.
We are looking for an individual who is early on their Digital Design journey and wants to grow their career in a global business and gain exposure to all aspects and elements of Marketing in a fast-paced and agile team.
Your Tasks
- Support the creation and amendment of visual assets for digital, print and social media campaigns.
- Assist in developing branding materials, sales and internal presentations and promotional content.
- Take charge of photography and videography creation (utilising our recently purchased high-end equipment) to capture and edit compelling content.
- Collaborate with marketing, sales and other stakeholders to deliver creative solutions.
- Contribute ideas during creative brainstorming sessions.
- Learn and apply industry-standard design tools (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite)
- Balance academic study with workplace learning, applying university learning outcomes to real-world projects.
- Maintain an organized workflow and ensure files and assets are managed and stored correctly.
- Adhere to global brand standards in local execution and support local activation of global assets and campaigns.
- Gain practical experience in typography, layout, image editing, rendering and motion graphics.
Requirements:
Some experience in Graphic/Hybrid/Digital Design and ability to produce and amend graphics with a passion for creativity.
Experience or passionate in coffee or food & beverage beneficial
Highly organised and detail-oriented individual, experience of project management or coordination is desirable.
Self motivated and ambitious individual.
Looking to grow Marketing career and not afraid to take on new challenges.
Desire to learn is critical for this role.
Eligible to study on the Digital Design BA (Hons) Apprenticeship program at Middlesex University
Where you'll work
6a Handley Page Way
Colney Street
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL2 2DQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
Training course
Creative digital design professional (integrated degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply creative design processes to all creative digital development projects, including online services and installations and non-screen-based media, producing designs compelling to customers / users and to leverage the multitude of digital touch points including, but limited to; mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop, wearable, consoles and cars.
- Create designs using industry standard methods; Typography, Digital Art, Video and Special Effects, Rendering, Animation, 3D Graphics and Digital Photography.
- Create eye-catching creative design concepts and prototypes for presentation to clients using industry standard tools and advanced methods to address design problems set by clients.
- Create 'production' ready digital media assets including, but not limited to designs, style guides, animations, videos, story boards, images, audio to achieve a determined business outcome.
- Select, refine, adapt and apply industry standard contemporary creative digital design technologies, and working with data to develop creative design solutions. Apply and leverage data e.g. personalisation, behavioural, location, weather, in design concepts and solutions.
- Communicate design concepts and solutions to team members, designers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial and sales in a strong and compelling manner, evaluating the outputs and methods used and their implications.
- Use design concept digital art to deliver creative design sales pitches to clients.
- Brief and work with third parties such as photographers, model makers, agencies and data professionals.
- Produce and maintain a portfolio of creative digital work.
- Keep abreast of industry developments, creative trends and innovations, knowing what’s emerging, and when and when to act to make cost effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies.
- Input into market/user research and UX briefs and work with their outputs.
- Collaborate between team members, clients and working with a range of stakeholders including market researchers, user experience professionals, user researchers, developers, photographers, model makers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial, sales and communication specialists.
- Review and build accessibility requirements into all interactive creative digital media solutions.
- Work effectively both individually and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with methodologies such as agile, building and maintaining positive relationships with team members, clients and other stakeholders.
- Lead and manage end to end creative digital design projects in line with governance policies, meeting deadlines and managing client expectations for different environments, including agile.
- Deliver well-designed, high quality creative digital solutions including prototyping skills within organisational brand guidelines.
- Design interactive artefacts using industry standard immersive technology techniques.
- Be able to plan and undertake own development and life-long learning to keep abreast of emerging technologies and techniques to review how these are best.
- Apply creative design processes to all creative digital development projects, including online services and installations and non-screen-based media, producing designs compelling to customers / users and to leverage the multitude of digital touch points including, but limited to; mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop, wearable, consoles and cars.
- Create designs using industry standard methods; Typography, Digital Art, Video and Special Effects, Rendering, Animation, 3D Graphics and Digital Photography.
- Create eye-catching creative design concepts and prototypes for presentation to clients using industry standard tools and advanced methods to address design problems set by clients.
- Create 'production' ready digital media assets including, but not limited to designs, style guides, animations, videos, story boards, images, audio to achieve a determined business outcome.
- Select, refine, adapt and apply industry standard contemporary creative digital design technologies, and working with data to develop creative design solutions. Apply and leverage data e.g. personalisation, behavioural, location, weather, in design concepts and solutions.
- Communicate design concepts and solutions to team members, designers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial and sales in a strong and compelling manner, evaluating the outputs and methods used and their implications.
- Use design concept digital art to deliver creative design sales pitches to clients.
- Brief and work with third parties such as photographers, model makers, agencies and data professionals.
- Produce and maintain a portfolio of creative digital work.
- Keep abreast of industry developments, creative trends and innovations, knowing what’s emerging, and when and when to act to make cost effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies.
- Input into market/user research and UX briefs and work with their outputs.
- Collaborate between team members, clients and working with a range of stakeholders including market researchers, user experience professionals, user researchers, developers, photographers, model makers, brand managers, product leads, marketing directors, commercial, sales and communication specialists.
- Review and build accessibility requirements into all interactive creative digital media solutions.
- Work effectively both individually and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with methodologies such as agile, building and maintaining positive relationships with team members, clients and other stakeholders.
- Lead and manage end to end creative digital design projects in line with governance policies, meeting deadlines and managing client expectations for different environments, including agile.
- Deliver well-designed, high quality creative digital solutions including prototyping skills within organisational brand guidelines.
- Design interactive artefacts using industry standard immersive technology techniques.
- Be able to plan and undertake own development and life-long learning to keep abreast of emerging technologies and techniques to review how these are best.
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
About this employer
Franke Coffee Systems is a leading global provider of state-of-the-art solutions for professional coffee making. We seek to create uniquely exceptional coffee experiences for hospitality, catering and restaurant businesses in the UK, USA, Germany, Switzerland and beyond. From bustling coffee shops to international airport lounges, we offer a range of automatic, semi-automatic and traditional coffee machines to suit each individual customer’s needs. Together with our trade partners, Franke Coffee Systems is committed to premium best-in-class in-cup-quality, consistency and beverage variety – as well as ensuring an outstanding customer experience through constant innovation. We are part of the Franke Group, a £2.24 billion global supplier of products and services for home solutions, food service systems and professional coffee systems in over 60 countries. Over 8,000 employees constantly take on new perspectives to identify opportunities and turn them into inspiring, innovative solutions for tomorrow’s demands.
Company benefits
• 25 days of holidays • Private Healthcare for you, with the option to add partner and children • Life Insurance • Income Protection • Cycle to Work Scheme • EV Car – Salary Sacrifice scheme
After this apprenticeship
Looking to grow Marketing career and not afraid to take on new challenges.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000338366.
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Closes on Wednesday 1 October 2025
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