Lifecycle Marketing Operations Assistant Apprentice

Macmillan Learning

London (N1 9XW)

Closes in 23 days (Friday 29 August 2025)

Posted on 6 August 2025


Summary

The Lifecycle Marketing Operations Assistant plays a key role in executing international marketing campaigns that support product-level and lifecycle marketing strategies for Achieve, iClicker and all the individual product titles.

Training course
Publishing professional (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

37 hours a week

Start date

Friday 31 October 2025

Duration

1 year 3 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

  • Campaign Execution: Support the creation of and delivery of international marketing campaigns across platforms (e.g., email, web, social), based on briefs from the Product Marketing and the
  • Director of Lifecycle Marketing
  • Work with the design team to produce on-brand communications, both print and online, across the full product portfolio
  • Workflow & Process Management: Use Asana and other tools as required to manage timelines, approvals, and campaign statuses, ensuring smooth and transparent execution.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a key liaison between Lifecycle and Product Marketing teams, supporting marketing managers in the overall list strategy and implementation 
  • Website: Support in updating the international blogsite as well as other areas of the website, briefing in new posts and content to support demand generation activities
  • Keep up-to-date knowledge of marketing tactics to continually innovate
  • Take on and manage different lifecycle marketing projects as required by the role

Where you'll work

The Campus
4 Crinan Street
London
N1 9XW

Training

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

Training provider

LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD

Training course

Publishing professional (level 4)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Input and maintain data to produce products or publications that meet company, sales channel and audience requirements.
  • Continually improve the quality of information or data in line with best practice.
  • Maintain data and records in line with relevant data protection guidelines.
  • Follow publishing guidelines relevant to their role to produce products or publications that meet budgets, are on schedule and meet company and industry standards.
  • Ensure appropriate changes are highlighted and agreed with stakeholders
  • Apply rigour and attention to detail
  • Escalate issues and concerns, in line with company process.
  • Identify stakeholders, build relationships and manage expectations
  • Present appropriate information clearly and concisely, whether internal or external.
  • Ensure that products or publications meet contractual structures agreed with authors or other content providers.
  • Think laterally and provide sensible solutions to problems.
  • Demonstrate a strong ability to work as part of a team, taking on tasks confidently and resourcefully, working cooperatively with others, and supporting the team and line manager as required.
  • Communicate clearly with relevant stakeholders, showing confidence, inclusiveness and flexibility, and ensuring an appropriate use of language and terminology.
  • Present and communicate ideas to colleagues internally and externally as needed.
  • Manage own workload and operate both individually and as part of a wider team and seek support when needed.
  • Demonstrate good time-management – prioritise effectively, with the ability to manage multiple demands and deadlines.
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively during remote or hybrid working, where required by their company.
  • Input and maintain data to produce products or publications that meet company, sales channel and audience requirements.
  • Continually improve the quality of information or data in line with best practice.
  • Maintain data and records in line with relevant data protection guidelines.
  • Follow publishing guidelines relevant to their role to produce products or publications that meet budgets, are on schedule and meet company and industry standards.
  • Ensure appropriate changes are highlighted and agreed with stakeholders
  • Apply rigour and attention to detail
  • Escalate issues and concerns, in line with company process.
  • Identify stakeholders, build relationships and manage expectations
  • Present appropriate information clearly and concisely, whether internal or external.
  • Ensure that products or publications meet contractual structures agreed with authors or other content providers.
  • Think laterally and provide sensible solutions to problems.
  • Demonstrate a strong ability to work as part of a team, taking on tasks confidently and resourcefully, working cooperatively with others, and supporting the team and line manager as required.
  • Communicate clearly with relevant stakeholders, showing confidence, inclusiveness and flexibility, and ensuring an appropriate use of language and terminology.
  • Present and communicate ideas to colleagues internally and externally as needed.
  • Manage own workload and operate both individually and as part of a wider team and seek support when needed.
  • Demonstrate good time-management – prioritise effectively, with the ability to manage multiple demands and deadlines.
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively during remote or hybrid working, where required by their company.

Training schedule

To meet the requirements of the Level Publishing Professional apprenticeship programme you will need to spend 6 hours a week of your time undertaking off-the-job learning, which will include: 

  • Formal training, including online learning and internal learning events 
  • 1-2-1s with your coach and line manager 
  • Observing and shadowing colleagues 
  • Writing up learning reflections for your portfolio 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 9 - 4 or A* - C)
  • Maths (grade 9 - 4 or A* - C)

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
  • Analytical skills
  • Team working

About this employer

Macmillan Learning is a part of the family-owned Holtzbrinck group of companies and is one of the leading educational technology companies. Through deep partnership with the world's best researchers, educators, administrators, and developers, they facilitate teaching and learning opportunities that spark student engagement and improve outcomes. They provide educators with tailored solutions designed to inspire student curiosity and measure progress. Macmillan Learning is comprised of renowned brands including Bedford/St. Martins, W.H. Freeman, Worth Publishers, Sapling Learning, SkyFactor, Intellus Learning, Late Nite Labs, EBI-MAPworks, iclicker, REEF and Hayden-McNeil.

https://www.macmillanlearning.com/ed/uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Full time employment.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335886.

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Closes in 23 days (Friday 29 August 2025)

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