We all love holidays, whether it be a city break, or relaxing beach vacation. So come join the UK’s leading independent British travel agents! Barrhead Travel are growing and have over 50 branches across the UK. To maintain excellent customer service, they require an apprentice to join their team.
You will play a pivotal role in enhancing our online presence, engaging our audience, and driving traffic to our digital platforms. This apprenticeship opportunity is designed to provide you with hands-on experience and valuable skills in digital content creation, marketing, and strategy development. You will work closely with our marketing team to ensure a seamless integration of digital content across various channels.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in conducting keyword research and implement SEO best practices to improve search engine visibility and organic traffic to our website
- Contribute to the creation of email marketing campaigns, including crafting engaging subject lines, designing email templates, and monitoring campaign performance
- Utilize analytics tools to track and analyse the performance of digital content and campaigns - provide insights and recommendations for continuous improvement
- Support in maintaining and updating the website, ensuring content accuracy, and optimising user experience
- Collaborate with the design team to create visually appealing graphics and visuals for digital content
- Stay informed about travel industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging digital marketing strategies to identify new opportunities for content promotion
- Work closely with the marketing team, travel consultants, and other departments to ensure consistency in messaging and brand representation
- Participate actively in training sessions, workshops, and mentorship programs to enhance your knowledge and skills in digital marketing and content creation
Skills required:
- Excellent communication and people skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively.
- A good team player
Salary:
£11,648 per annum
Working hours:
Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm
Reasons to join us:
- Be part of a travel-obsessed team that shares your adventurous spirit
- Embark on exciting familiarization trips to expand your knowledge and fuel your passion for travel
- A Personal Development Plan and our commitment to continued training, development, and career progression - share your career-goals with us and we’ll work together to help you achieve them
- A varied company benefits scheme which includes amazing discounts with UK high street retailers
- Generous staff discounts on your own holidays plus discounts available for family and friends
- 34 days annual leave - well, you need time to enjoy those amazing holiday discounts, don’t you!
- Perfect attendance reward - £100 holiday voucher
- Refer a friend incentive - £500 reward
- Company pension scheme
- Long service rewards – love to shop vouchers and celebratory long service lunch or dinner with your colleagues and management
Future prospects:
90% of QA apprentices secure permanent employment after completing: this is 20% higher than the national average.
Important information:
This vocational apprenticeship comprehensively supports your specific job role with this particular employer. Throughout your learning journey, you are fully supported by your dedicated QA skills coach and your mentor at work. They ensure you settle in, help you develop all the skills you need to be successful in your job role and pass your assessments, and can provide one to one support.
Starting with insights into your current potential, they plan your growth in a programmatic way, close skills gaps with immersive training and ensure what you learn is applicable to what you do. They talk you through the specifics on the qualifications you gain and how they align in particular to your day to day role.
On completion, as well as the valuable work experience you have gained, you get a nationally recognised qualification at SCQF Level 6.
If you are interested in starting your career and receiving a work based qualification at the same time APPLY NOW!