Job Description
Start a career in marketing, with Amazon
Introduction
The Marketing Academy Foundation is delighted to offer a Marketing Apprentice role at Amazon. The role is initially for 12 months.
The role is based in the London office. It is a hybrid remote/office role, and you will be asked to come into the office 3 days a week.
The Marketing Academy Foundation support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds get career starts in marketing at top brands. You will be asked to answer a series of eligibility questions to progress your application.
Salary is £21,749.
How to apply
Send us a copy of your CV alongside a covering letter explaining why you would like this role. You must also conduct the Excel Skills test.
A CV alone will not be enough and will see you be immediately rejected.
A bit about the job you will be fulfilling
Amazon’s Cross-Channel Marketing (XCM) team are currently seeking a Digital Media Apprentice to help support their digital advertising across social media and programmatic activity.
XCM create the paid media mass advertising for the portfolio of Amazon’s key brands and categories, from retail events like Q4 holiday, Prime Day, Alexa campaigns and communications unveiling our brand purpose and reputation. As a center of excellence for all mass marketing communications, we are responsible for strategy, budget, creative development, media planning and buying, executions and measurement of this work. We have high ownership and accountability and use data where possible to focus our judgement. Our charter is to make the most measurably effective, scalable and breakthrough marketing in the world for our customers.
This role will require the successful candidate to bring their best self to the team daily and provide a thorough education and experience in developing digital media for mass-advertising campaigns, with a particular focus on social media activation across multiple European countries.
The ideal candidate is a digitally minded, analytical thinker, with exceptional attention to detail and a passionate interest in social media advertising. They will have a strong work ethic and bias for action in a sometimes ambiguous and peculiar environment and will be highly organised and able to organise. Strong candidates must have the ability to learn complex digital tasks quickly, have excellent written and verbal communications skills and have a self-starter attitude.
This role will report into the Digital Media Manager and will support them closely in engaging with our media planning, strategy planning, campaign management and creative / production teams to translate business briefs into best-in-class digital media plans, as well as external social and programmatic media agencies
The role provides a fast-paced environment that offers team members continual opportunities to learn, be curious and develop their skills while working alongside an amazing set of talented and friendly marketing, media and advertising experts.
Responsibilities
- Assisting the Digital Media Manager in planning and buying digital advertising activations across multiple campaign types and programmes including both deal events and brand campaigns.
- Developing planning and buying skills across a range of social and programmatic platforms and tools including Facebook, Instagram, Snap, TikTok, Twitter, Pinterest and Sprinklr, as well as Amazon’s in-house tools
Once trained:
- Helping plan social media campaigns: building out proposals for the wider media team in regards to which social media channels should be used and recommending what creative formats should be supplied and potential “experiments” to run.
- Buying social media campaigns: utilising buying tools and platforms to manage; audience selection, campaign set-up, campaign optimisation and reporting
- Working with internal and external social and programmatic teams on campaign coordination and implementation
- Work with Digital Media Manager to develop and present recommendations, evaluations, POVs and media analyses to relevant stakeholder(s).
- Identification of interesting and relevant new social media trends.
- Build working relationships with Social Media vendors to develop best in class understandings of their platforms.
- Build trustworthy relationships with internal teams such as media planning, creative and campaign management
- Minute taking at meetings and follow up communication.
- Scheduling meetings between teams and external agencies.
- Working directly with other teams at Amazon to complete daily tasks.
- Ad hoc administration tasks.
Basic Qualifications
- Fluent English.
- Ability to communicate well.
- Strong analytical skills
- A-Level’s or equivalent completed.
- Basic computer skills
- Strong capability with Microsoft Excel and understanding of other Microsoft Office tools such Outlook and Word.
- Right to work in the UK.
Preferred Qualifications
- Genuine interest in digital marketing and advertising.
- 1 -2 years of work experience.
About Amazon
We're a company that obsesses over customers. Our actions, goals, projects, programmes and inventions begin and end with the customer at the forefront of our minds. In other words, we start with the customer and work backwards. When we hit on something that is really working for customers, we commit to it in the hope that it will turn into an even bigger success. However, it’s not always as straightforward as that. Inventing is messy, and over time, it’s certain that we’ll fail at some big bets too.
You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1." What do we mean? Our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day - to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, innovate and invent and focus on delighting customers..
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life, and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability,
Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
About The Marketing Academy Foundation
The Marketing Academy Foundation is a registered charity that enables career starts in the marketing industries for young adults from challenging backgrounds. We do this by finding and funding fully paid, year-long Apprenticeships with world class companies. You can find out more about us at www.tma-foundation.org
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract, Apprenticeship
Contract length: 12 months
Salary: From £21,749.00 per year
Benefits:
Schedule:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- A-Level or equivalent (preferred)
Work Location: In person