Marketing Apprentice

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Job Title

Marketing Apprentice

Job Description

Looking for an apprenticeship that will provide you with an experience like no other?

Have you got a passion for marketing and looking for an apprenticeship with a top employer? Join Sage as a Product Marketing Apprentice and gain practical, valuable skills from a global, FTSE 100 company and unleash your potential.

Sage is rapidly evolving from a product centric software business to a brand led, customer centric, digital first brand focused on Human-to-Human Marketing.
We use data & insight combined with craft expertise to drive commercial and brand equity growth. We are focused on annual commercial delivery and long-term innovation.

As a Product Marketing Apprentice, you will join our high performing Product Marketing Management Team (PMM), delivering best-in-class customer value propositions through high-impact, creative Go To Market programmes.

As well as on-the-job learning, you'll benefit from five personal development days which you can use to boost your skills and industry knowledge. We also encourage all our colleagues to make an impact in their local communities, by giving them five fully paid days per year to volunteer, fundraise or do other charitable work through Sage Foundation.

Key Responsibilities

What will you gain exposure to?

At Sage, Product Marketing is about building a deep understanding of customer needs, market trends, and competitor activities. Product Marketing teams then use this knowledge to collaboratively design ambitious growth plans, compelling customer value propositions, and high-impact, creative go-to-market (GTM) strategies.

As a Product Marketing Apprentice at Sage, you will be right at the heart of the decision making and activities that shape the growth of our business. You will work as part of a team alongside experienced Product Marketing Managers, supporting them to deliver outstanding results. You will gain experience working across the spectrum of product marketing activities, including research and analysis, messaging and value proposition development, and product launches and GTMs.

This role offers the opportunity to learn on the job and build expert knowledge of our markets, customers, competitors, and core products.

Completing an Apprenticeship at Sage opens doors to a world of opportunities. Not only will you gain exposure to cutting-edge marketing strategies and tactics, but you will also benefit from exclusive early access to our graduate roles, along with the many excellent benefits we offer to support your professional development and growth within our organisation.

Summary of your Day to Day

• Collecting and collating customer, market, and product performance data into consumable formats, to enable analysis from Product and Commercial colleagues.
• Supporting the development of product and feature messaging.
• Working with digital teams to support the development and optimisation of our digital customer journeys.
• Supporting the production of Product Marketing plans & presentations.
• Tracking progress against key initiatives and agreed actions; working with workstream owners to understand and report on progress.
• Support the day to day running of the Product Marketing Management team by raising Business request tickets and owning the collaborative SharePoint site for the team
• Attending workshops and meetings, offering suggestions, and participating in as many learning opportunities as possible.

Useful skills and experience:

• High-energy individual with a can-do approach
• Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to work with people at all levels
• Excellent verbal, written and editing skills across all forms of communication
• Collaborator that works well in a dynamic environment
• Organised, proactive and can work to deadlines
• Able to manage and prioritise a number of tasks at once
• Numerically strong with good attention to detail
• A desire to learn multiple parts of the business
• You will need five 9-4 GCSE passes (including Maths and English) to thrive in this role, and to qualify for the Marketing apprenticeship you will be enrolled on to.

To thrive in this role, you will be looking for a future career in this area. But we're committed to nurturing the talent at our fingertips, so, if you have the 5 GCSE's but don't meet all of the entry requirements, don't let that hold you back from applying. You can belong at Sage, just as you are.

Does the above sound of interest to you? If so, all there is left to do is apply!

Our Apprentice recruitment process looks like this:

Apply online with your CV and complete our screening process. If our Early Careers team believes you might be a match, you'll be asked to complete a video interview (you'll receive a link to complete a video interview within 1 week of applying).

If successful, you'll join a shortlist of candidates for the assessment centre. This is a full-day virtual event between in July 2024. Please ensure that you are available from 09:00-17:00 on this date when applying. It's a great opportunity for you to let your talents shine and showcase your skills! It's a mixture of team and individual activities, so you can show us what you're made of. From there, we will consider you for an apprenticeship position. If you require any additional support or special accommodations during your video interview or at the Assessment Centre stage, please email [email protected]

This role will commence on 1st October 2024. Good luck!

Function

Global Product Marketing

Country

United Kingdom

Office Location

Newcastle

Work Place type

Hybrid

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At Sage, we recognize that the world of work has rapidly shifted over the last few years, particularly how we work. That is why we have committed to working in a hybrid way going forward. Human connection is an essential ingredient of the 4 principles that make up our Flexible Human Work hybrid framework and we want to be transparent in what that looks like when you join our Sage family. On one hand, our offices will continue to play an important role in our future and serve as a place for spontaneous conversations, connection, collaboration as well as focused time. On the other hand, we have learned to reimagine where and when we work and to unlock that flexibility and innovation for our colleagues offering them the opportunity to work flex across their home, Sage offices or customer sites.

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