Marketing Graduate

Job Description

Job title: Marketing Graduate

Company: BGL Group

Job description: About Compare the Market

Our purpose is to make great financial decision making a breeze for everyone, and that purpose drives us every day.

It’s why we’re on a mission to create an automated quoting engine, with the simplest of experiences, wrapped in a brand everyone loves!

We change lives by making it simple to switch and save money. So, when it comes to getting a better deal, it’s never been more blindingly obvious why customers should choose Compare the Market.

We’d love you to be a part of our journey

Marketing is at the heart of our company and a fundamental part of our business.

Our 2-year graduate programme provides the opportunity to work first-hand in a dynamic business environment, with 4 different rotations spanning the marketing team. You’ll get exposure to working across; the Brand team to understand how we develop the brand and maximise broad media reach with impact communications, Customer Marketing to understand customer needs and behaviour to deliver personalized communications, Search Engine Opimisation to ensure that we are the most visible brand in the category and Planning & Effectiveness to ensure that our plans ladder to brilliant customer and business outcomes, with investment optimized to maximise marketing effectiveness across all channels.

About the programme:

While working towards your CIM Diploma in Professional Marketing (Compare the Market will fund this), you’ll be guided from day 1, by an experienced mentor, rotation managers and our Talent Academy community. When the programme finishes, there’ll be an opportunity to join us on a permanent role basis.

We’re looking for adventurous, opportunity-seizing individuals with a deep interest in marketing to take our brand from strength to strength.

As part of our wider Talent Academy Community you’ll also get additional development opportunities, supported networking and a few socials in there for good measure.

About the role:

You’ll be exposed to a variety of roles, helping you to build your career in the world of marketing and develop key foundations for your future, having worked on collaborative projects that have a real impact to Compare the Market.

A Marketing graduate:

· Grasps the value of the brand and the importance of consistent branding, execution of brand guidelines, governance, and ability to pick up brand tone of voice.

· Builds exceptional relationships at all levels – with Marketing teams, agency partners and internal stakeholders beyond Marketing.

· Interrogates customer and business insights to build and develop marketing strategies and plans to shape communications objectives and deliver customer outcomes.

· Understands how to reach customer at the right time, with the right message and in the right channel.

· Builds knowledge across search: developing an understanding of the role SEO plays in forming strong foundations to ensure wider marketing activity can meet business aims and digital KPIs.

· Understands and explains marketing performance, the principles of the Marketing Planning process and the importance to drive effectiveness across all channels.

Everyone is welcome

We have a culture of creativity. We approach our work passionately, improve constantly and celebrate our wins at every turn. We are an inclusive workplace, and our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic, whole selves to work. Everyone is welcome. Be you.

This means we’re excited to hear from people with a range of skills, experiences, and ideas. We don’t expect you to tick all the boxes but would love to hear what makes you great for this role.

You’ll:

· Have ANY university degree: it doesn’t matter to us what degree you studied or which University, what matters is your deep interest in marketing. Time in industry is always beneficial but not a requirement.

· Be collaborative by instinct and enjoy working as part of a team to deliver high quality work.

· Have superb numeracy, analytical capability with a creative, innovative mindset.

· Be able to build positive relationships with people from different backgrounds and appreciate different perspectives.

· Have a curiosity to learn, grow and develop.

· Be unafraid to try and fail, you are resilient and able to pick yourself up and rebound.

· Hold strong problem-solving skills: able to review and understand new situations to suggest and implement pragmatic solutions.

Our people bring our purpose to life

Our brilliant brand is central to our business, but that’s only part of the story. Our marketing team ensures we’re showing up for customers in the right way, at the right time, with the right offers. It’s fast, exciting, and famous!

There’s something for everyone

We’re a place of opportunity. You’ll have the tools and autonomy to drive your own career, supported by a team of amazingly talented people.

And then there’s our benefits. For us, it’s not just about a competitive salary and hybrid working, we care about what matters to you. From a generous holiday allowance

and private healthcare to an electric car scheme and paid CSR (Community and Social Responsibility) days, we’ve pretty much got you covered!

We will be holding an Assessment Centre at the end of January inviting the shortlisted candidates in to see our offices and meet our amazing marketing team.

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Expected salary:

Location: United Kingdom

Job date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:38:28 GMT

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