Data Administration Apprentice
CHILDSPLAY CLOTHING LIMITED
DAGENHAM (RM9 6FF)
Closes on Tuesday 25 November 2025
Posted on 20 October 2025
Contents
Summary
This is a Level 3 Data Administration role - split 80/20 between employment with the employer, and learning & gaining qualifications with Solveway Apprenticeships! This is a serious growth role and we are looking for people who are keen to push themselves to accelerate the growth of their skills early in their career.
- Wage
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£18,000 a year
- Training course
- Data technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday
Shifts to be confirmed
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 26 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 5 months
- Positions available
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2
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
Childsplay Clothing is looking for an enthusiastic and committed Merchandiser Admin Assistant to join our expanding Merchandising Department. The role directly reports to the Merchandisers. As a Merchandiser Admin Assistant at Childsplay you will be essential in supporting the different members of the Merchandising team during seasonal brand buys as well as overseeing day-to-day office admin tasks. If you are truly passionate about fashion and are looking to drive your career forward in a fast paced and exciting environment this is the role for you.
Duties & Responsibilities
Assist and support merchandising & buying team- providing administrative and data analysis support and reports including but not limited to below:
- Weekly trade packs
- Maintain Range plans
- Sell thru packs for internal use and external use
- Buy packs
- Markdowns & promotions admin support
- Weekly stock online report
- Sales reports
- Stock reports
- Presentation packs
- Ad hoc reports requests form the wider company
- Ability to work effectively with the team and as an individual
- Produce sell through reports for meetings- keep on top of diary
- Assisting the team with day-to-day administrative tasks
Where you'll work
UNIT 5
ORION PARK
MESSINA WAY
DAGENHAM
RM9 6FF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SOLVEWAY LIMITED
Training course
Data technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Select and migrate data from already identified sources.
- Format and save datasets.
- Summarise, analyse and explain gathered data.
- Combine data sets from multiple sources and present in format appropriate to the task.
- Use tools and/or apply basic statistical methods to identify trends and patterns in data.
- Identify faults and cleanse data to improve data quality, for example identifying gaps, duplicate entries, outliers and unusual variances, including cross-checking across data elements or between data sources.
- Audit data results for maintenance of data quality, reviewing a data set once all sources are combined, to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency and traceability from original data.
- Demonstrate the different ways of communicating meaning from data in line with audience requirements.
- Produce clear and consistent documentation of the data provided to others and of actions completed. Where appropriate or mandated by the working context, this documentation should use standard organisational templates.
- Store, manage and distribute data in compliance with organisational, national, sector specific standards and or legislation.
- Considers sustainability and ways to reduce impact. For example, using cloud storage, sharing links to files, avoid storing multiple versions of files, and reducing the use of physical handouts of documentation.
- Parse data against standard formats, and test and assess confidence in the data and its integrity.
- Operate collaboratively in a working context that accounts for, and takes advantage of, the roles, skills and activities of others, especially those interacting with the same data sets or working towards a common goal.
- Prioritise own activities within the context of the duties to be performed, taking account of any known or expected impact on others.
- Follows equity, diversity and inclusion policies in the organisation for a common goal.
- Demonstrate the ability to use different tools and methods to formulate and utilise effective prompts to research, apply, and evaluate data transformation techniques.
- Select and migrate data from already identified sources.
- Format and save datasets.
- Summarise, analyse and explain gathered data.
- Combine data sets from multiple sources and present in format appropriate to the task.
- Use tools and/or apply basic statistical methods to identify trends and patterns in data.
- Identify faults and cleanse data to improve data quality, for example identifying gaps, duplicate entries, outliers and unusual variances, including cross-checking across data elements or between data sources.
- Audit data results for maintenance of data quality, reviewing a data set once all sources are combined, to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency and traceability from original data.
- Demonstrate the different ways of communicating meaning from data in line with audience requirements.
- Produce clear and consistent documentation of the data provided to others and of actions completed. Where appropriate or mandated by the working context, this documentation should use standard organisational templates.
- Store, manage and distribute data in compliance with organisational, national, sector specific standards and or legislation.
- Considers sustainability and ways to reduce impact. For example, using cloud storage, sharing links to files, avoid storing multiple versions of files, and reducing the use of physical handouts of documentation.
- Parse data against standard formats, and test and assess confidence in the data and its integrity.
- Operate collaboratively in a working context that accounts for, and takes advantage of, the roles, skills and activities of others, especially those interacting with the same data sets or working towards a common goal.
- Prioritise own activities within the context of the duties to be performed, taking account of any known or expected impact on others.
- Follows equity, diversity and inclusion policies in the organisation for a common goal.
- Demonstrate the ability to use different tools and methods to formulate and utilise effective prompts to research, apply, and evaluate data transformation techniques.
Training schedule
Expected Apprenticeship Duration: 14 months + 3 months EPA.
Level 3 Data Technician Apprenticeship:
- Blend of eLearning and classroom training with CompTIA and Microsoft training
- Includes elements of business administration (Project management, stakeholders, communication and presentations)
- Training Biweekly classes (length 3 hours) alternating between Data+ and Excel/Power BI (NB: Exams optional)
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Hardworking
Other requirements
Knowledge of retail environments and an understanding of Merchandising Analytical skills and enjoy working with numbers, and a good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
About this employer
Childsplay Clothing is a stylish independent retailer of luxury designer children’s clothes operating today out of the UK. Our vibrant and fashionable website is the envy of many and gives us reach to a worldwide customer from as far as the USA, Middle East to China. Our operation is backed up by our high-tech Head Office and Distribution centre operating out of Dagenham. Incorporated 30 years ago the business has built a trusted and talented team which have helped drive the strategy and vision to make the company one of the market leaders today.
https://www.childsplayclothing.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
On-Site Parking
After this apprenticeship
- You will have the chance to progress further in your career upon completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SOLVEWAY LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000347266.
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Closes on Tuesday 25 November 2025
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