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Apprenticeship - Sales Apprentice at Times Media

Location:

London

Department:

Commercial

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

22 Sep 2024

Job Description

Sales Apprenticeship - Times Media

Start date January 2025

Location: London

24 month apprenticeship

News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 40 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations including Virgin Radio, talkSPORT and Times Radio.

Your Role: Working within the fast paced commercial team, you will be supporting and learning from experts in multiple disciplines and categories to assist us in reaching our revenue targets. Over a period of 24 months, you will gain knowledge and expertise in multiple areas, giving you the foundations for a long and successful career in the media industry and a deep understanding of News UK as a business.

At the end of the 2 year program you’ll complete your apprenticeship in Commercial Sales.

Being a News UK Sales Apprentice ,you will have the opportunity to be fully immersed in the Sales team, working with some of the biggest News and Radio brands including The Sun, The Times & The Sunday Times, talkSPORT and Virgin Radio. You will work across multiple sales teams who work directly with our clients and agencies. You will gain insight into all aspects of sales from understanding clients' needs to building relationships and understanding how to develop product and market knowledge. You will also be given the opportunity to rotate across our Commercial department.

Over the course of 24 months you will study towards your Level 4 Sales Executive qualification, this will be combined with on the job, digital and interactive learning. The apprenticeship will equip you with skills and knowledge to kick start your career in sales. Some of the areas it covers include; Impactful communication, digital skills, market knowledge, customer experience, effective collaboration, resilience and professional development.

During your time with us you will earn above living wage, get full training, study towardsSales Executive Level 4 Apprenticeship qualification (with your course fees paid). You will also receive mentoring/coaching from the industry’s best, as well as any other equity you might need to fulfil your full potential.

Day to day you will: During your 24 month period you’ll work with a number of different teams in the commercial department and will undertake a range of tasks including, but not limited to:

• Working with internal creative, client and publishing teams to produce sales decks and plans for clients and agencies

• Producing reports for management on performance in different business areas

• Working on competitor analysis to identify areas in which we can improve as a business and gaps in our product offering

• Support different teams with administrative tasks

What we’re looking for from you: You will be enthusiastic to embrace a new challenge and seize the learning opportunities this scheme will provide. We offer a great amount of training for the role so whilst we are not looking for specific experience, we look for the following attributes:

• Proactive approach

• Inquisitive nature

• An analytical and creative approach to problem solving

• Naturally builds relationships

• Demonstrates Inclusive behaviours

• A desire to learn and develop

• A passion for and knowledge of digital marketing channels and social media to tell stories

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

Application Process

Online Application > Google Meet Interview > Assessment Centre

As part of the Online Application process, we would like you to provide answers to our application questions that explains why you want to join the News UK commercial team.

Please answer the following 3 questions, this is how we initially review your application.

1. Which channels do you currently use to consume news content and what is it that you like about them?

2. What is your current perception of News UK and our brands? Do you currently consume any of them?

3. What do you think is currently the most important issue on the news agenda and why?

We are News UK : One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Sun, The Times & The Sunday Times and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News : At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We championdiversity and inclusion (https://www.news.co.uk/diversity-and-inclusion-at-news-uk/) , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting theHealth and Wellbeingof our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &paternityleave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

• Private medical insurancecovering pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

• Access towellbeing benefitssuch as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

• A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 25 daysholiday,plus bank holidaysand up to 4volunteeringdays per year;

• Apprenticeship Societythat provides community support throughout your apprenticeship

• Employee networksrepresenting the interests of many groups, including Gen Z, LGBTQ, parents and carers and different faiths and religions

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require anyreasonable adjustmentsduring the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.