This job expired on 7th November 2023
Paid Trainee
Kick start your career in digital marketing by joining our 6 month trainee programme.
Why consider Sleeping Giant Media? To Awaken Potential... Yours, our Giants and our Clients! That’s our mission.
Would our ambition to develop an incredible working environment committed to Health & Wellbeing, Diversity, Flexibility, Inclusivity, Excellence, Community, and Sustainability inspire you?
And finally, would you love to be part of the team of Giants that achieves our Times Top 100 Employer status, an industry-leading Employee Net Promoter Score, our Carbon Negative Commitment, and an 85 Net promoter Score!?
If the answer is yes, and you feel that this specific role is right for you, then we want to talk.
Sleeping Giant Media is a multi award winning business with clients across the UK and Europe, and we’re looking for someone to join our Paid Media team as a trainee. As a member of the paid team, you will be working across Google Ads, Facebook and LinkedIn campaigns (and many more), developing a wide range of skills.
Overview
We are offering a paid, 6-month placement to learn best practices around paid management. As a Giant Trainee, you’ll benefit from some pretty snazzy, well-tested and highly-respected internal training that we run for all our team. From the moment a Giant joins us, they are introduced to intensive training to build up their knowledge on any given subject to the point they’re viewed as experts. Experts who are sought after to speak at leading marketing & digital themed events, as well as run some Giant accounts for some pretty Giant clients…That’s what makes our Giants so well known – we really do grow the best in the industry. (Ask any marketing recruitment agency in Kent).
The successful candidate will be supporting the Paid team in delivering billable work for clients with the aim of developing your skills, embodying our core values and attributes, and ensuring that we are always delivering the best service to our teams and our clients, upholding the ethos of “getting it done” no matter what the obstacles or challenges are.
Throughout your time with us, you’ll collect and learn a whole host of skills across the foundations of digital marketing as well as how to build and deliver high-performing, multi-channel digital ad strategies for our clients that will bulk out your CV quite nicely!
If you’ve really gone above and beyond, and shown yourself to be committed through and through, you may be offered a role the opportunity to try out as a full-time GIANT.
About the role
The Role:
• Learn how to set up, and monitor campaigns across a variety of platforms including Google Ads, Meta Business Manager, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator to name a few.
• Working closely with the Paid manager to identify client performance opportunities
• Assist in work across a huge variety of clients, identifying and completing actions that help improve performance.
• Working with the Paid team to come up with cross-channel strategies and new campaign ideas to ensure client KPI targets are met.
• Attend regular training sessions
• Attend and contribute towards meetings with prioritised actions
The Person:
• Demonstrated passion for Digital Marketing (Google Ads or Meta advertising experience is a bonus)
• Ability to prioritise and work to tight deadlines
• Confident in attention to detail, spotting errors quickly and effectively
• Both written and spoken English to a high standard
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Excellent maths and statistical/analytical skills
• Keen ability to problem solve and find solutions in a timely manner
The Team:
The Paid team are a fantastic group of people dedicated to using all the paid digital marketing platforms in their toolbelt to achieve client results. Whether it’s Facebook, Google, Bing, Spotify or Tik Tok, we’re all about achieving the best client results and finding the right combination of platforms to achieve it.
To do this, we believe the best ideas around, are found in a culture of collaboration, creativity and innovation (couldn’t think of another C word that was appropriate). On a day to day basis we move between a wide range of tasks for our clients, monitoring and performing actions that continue to drive us, and our clients forwards.
Together:
The company itself started in 2008, and part of that success is through our values - we all have to wear CAPES. That is, we have to be a great Communicator, Accountable, Positive, Effective, and Self-Aware. To celebrate our Giant heroes, we make sure everyone is well taken care of.
Benefits:
Free lunch, drinks, and snacks
Office - games, sports tables
Training, conferences, external training
Social days & nights out
Christmas and Summer Parties
Involvement in charity
Birthday's off
Financial advice support
We welcome people from all walks of life, so if you’d like us to make any adjustments for you to be able to take part in our recruitment, just let us know.
This is a paid 6 month placement, paid at National Minimum Wage. The placement is based on working full time, Monday to Friday 37.5 hours a week.
The candidate will need to be based in the UK as they will be required to visit our office in Folkestone for training/team days. Ideally we are looking for someone who will be able to visit our offices two to three times a week.
PLEASE NOTE: Our interview process will involve getting in touch with you over email - never WhatsApp. And we will never ask for any payment or payment information from you. If in doubt, just get in touch!
What you will need
Required criteria
- Demonstrated passion for Digital Marketing
- Ability to prioritise and work to tight deadlines
- Confident in attention to detail, spotting errors quickly and effectively
- Both written and spoken English to a high standard
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Excellent maths and statistical/analytical skills
- Keen ability to problem solve and find solutions in a timely manner
Sleeping Giant Media
Sleeping Giant Media is a purpose-driven digital marketing agency based in Kent, delivering industry-leading work across search, social, content, data and digital strategy. Since 2008, we’ve been on a mission to Awaken Potential - in our clients, our team and our wider community.
Proudly independently owned, multi-award-winning and a certified B Corp, we’re committed to doing business the right way - balancing people, planet and profit. Whether it’s SEO, PPC, content marketing, or analytics, we deliver with expertise, integrity and impact.
And while we take our work seriously, we don’t take ourselves too seriously - you’ll find no egos here, just smart, passionate people doing great work together.
We look for people with curiosity, energy and a genuine desire to grow, both personally and professionally. Whether you’re just starting out or bringing years of experience, we want people who are switched on, motivated and kind. Above all, you’ll need to wear CAPES, our values that guide how we work and who we hire: Communicator. Accountable. Positive. Effective. Self-Aware. This is a place for people who want to challenge themselves, learn continuously, support their teammates and make a positive impact, in and out of the office.
We’ve built an environment where people can thrive both professionally and personally. We support each other, celebrate the wins and lift one another up when things get tough. Our Giants describe the team as kind, welcoming, driven and weirdly obsessed with finding joy in what we do. Everyone’s voice matters here. There’s space to speak up, to laugh and to grow. Whatever your role, you’ll be encouraged to bring your whole self to work, do things the right way and keep getting better, like a true Giant.
Our benefits
We believe work should support your life, not compete with it. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package built around five pillars of wellbeing: financial, mental, physical, professional and social. As a Real Living Wage employer and certified B Corp, we’re committed to doing right by our people, creating a workplace that values balance, purpose and long-term sustainability for everyone.
Vacation, Paid time off
Paid sick days
Retirement plan and/or pension
Flexible schedule
Office perks
Employee discounts
Remote working
Sabbatical leave
Casual dress
Free parking
Free work laptop
Referral bonus
Open office
Long service recognition
Employee Assistance Scheme
Wellbeing Scheme
Shopping Cashback
Office Games and Gaming
Work With Charities
Social Opportunities
Annual Rise
Profit Share
Employee of the Month
Hybrid Working
Annual performance review
Culture of recognition
On the job learning
Progression opportunities
Access to Health & Wellbeing app
Bereavement leave
Service recognition increases to annual leave
Staff celebration events
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