Graduate Programme

6 months ago

Cheadle, United Kingdom Pets at Home Full time

Graduate Placement Scheme - Marketing
- Scheme duration 12 months
- Handforth based, with opportunity to work from home.
- Salary - £22k rising to £26k at 6 months
- 28 days holidays, in addition to 8 days statutory leave, Birthday leave, paid charity day, £1000 personal development fund and other benefits

**About Us**

“We put pets first” is our number one value at Pets at Home. Every colleague has a part to play to ensure that we deliver on this value every day. Our love and understanding of pets led us to develop our long-term goal to improve the life of every pet in the UK.

This covers not only the pets in our care, the pets of owners that use our products and services but also the pets that we can help through our charity work and through educating and advocating for change in society and the wider pet care and veterinary industry.

**We put pets first**; it’s not simply a statement, its’ our driving principle.

**About your placement opportunity**

Our 12-month graduate placements in the Marketing Team aim to provide a dynamic and hands-on experience for recent graduates seeking to develop skills in corporate marketing, within a central support office environment.

You will work as part of a team on a wide variety of campaigns and projects, developing your understanding and technical expertise daily as you work on some compelling brand work for either external or internal stakeholder groups. Your work could see you involved in campaigns for our clinical teams and vet practice owners, across our retail store network or in support of our wider group and support office teams.

You will have immediate exposure to real assignments which will draw on your imagination and creativity as well as your ability to analyse data, create compelling messaging and present results. These experiences will help build your technical knowledge and overall industry expertise while you benefit from more structured learning interventions.

This position is designed to give you hands-on exposure to various aspects of marketing, helping you to kickstart your career in the field.

**An overview of some of the aspects of our Marketing placement programme**

Our marketing team drives profit and promotes our services and products through coordinated marketing campaigns. As such, your day-to-day work could include:
**Content Creation**: Assist in creating engaging and relevant content for digital and social media marketing campaigns

**Market Research**: Conduct market research to identify trends, customer preferences, and competitor strategies

**Data Analysis**: Analyse marketing data and metrics to evaluate campaign performance and make data-driven recommendations

**Client Interaction**:Interact with stakeholders across the business, to understand and support them in achieving their marketing objectives

**Creative Input**:Contribute fresh ideas and innovative concepts to marketing strategies and campaigns

**About You - what we would like you to bring to our role and teams**

**Qualifications, Skills, and Behaviours**
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing ideally, or any related field and with a keen interest in marketing
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to network
- Adaptability and the ability to work on multiple projects
- Strong attention to detail
- Good organisational and planning skills
- Creativity, writing, and design skills
- IT skills including social media and video editing
- Excellent interpersonal skills, verbal, and written communication skills able to develop effective relationships with both the customer and colleagues
- A curious mind, an eagle eye and the courage to suggest areas of improvement, offering diversity in thought

Teamwork is a big part of life here at Pets at Home, so you must be someone who loves taking a collaborative approach and who can recognise and acknowledge the contribution of others. You’ll also be able to motivate and inspire the people around you by bringing enthusiasm and positivity to everything you do.

**How we will support your development and success**

At Pets we have a strong ‘grow our own’ talent ethos. We are keen to support your development at every stage of your career. With our graduate programmes, we can offer a range of development tools to support you. An individual mentor will support you from day-one, right the way throughout your structured programme to provide guidance and coaching.

You will also be able to benefit from a £1000 personal development fund which can be spent at one of our trusted training providers, to give you the flexibility to develop your skills in a way that is personal to you.

Upon completion of the programme, you will be offered the opportunity to interview with us for a further position. With a wide range of career pathways available, underpinned by a strong learning culture, we can offer a dynamic and exciting career here at Pets.

**The Application Process**

Stage 2: Online testing - week commencing 18.12.

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