Opportunity information
Salary £18000 per year
Duration 15 months
Advert closing date 21/09/2026
Description
Hunterlodge is an award-winning, full-service advertising agency with an exciting and growing portfolio of clients across sectors including higher education, technology, finance and not-for-profit. We're looking for our next Advertising & Media Executive Apprentice to join the Hunterlodge team.
Hunterlodge is an award-winning, full-service advertising agency with an exciting and growing portfolio of clients across sectors including higher education, technology, finance and not-for-profit.
We're looking for our next Advertising & Media Executive Apprentice to join the Hunterlodge team.
This is an opportunity to learn how advertising really works from the inside, gaining hands-on experience across
- Client services
- Media planning and buying, digital, creative, content and campaign performance.
- You don't need previous agency experience. In fact, we don't expect you to arrive knowing how to plan a media campaign, write a client brief or analyse campaign performance.
That's what we're going to teach you.
What we do want is someone curious, ambitious, comfortable with numbers, interested in advertising and digital media, and who has a huge desire to keep learning.
What you'll be doing
You'll work alongside experienced Account Managers, Account Directors and Media specialists, supporting real campaigns for real clients.
As your knowledge and confidence grow, so will your responsibilities.
Client & Account Management
You'll learn how to:
- Support the day-to-day management of client accounts
- Join client meetings, prepare agendas and follow up actions
- Communicate professionally with clients by email, phone and in meetings
- Help prepare and present campaign updates, recommendations and results
- Understand our clients, their organisations, audiences and objectives
Media Planning & Strategy
You'll support our Media team to:
- Help develop media plans across digital and traditional channels
- Research audiences, competitors and market trends
- Learn how audience insight is turned into media recommendations
- Understand the role of different channels across the customer journey
- Learn how campaigns balance brand awareness and performance objectives
- Research new platforms, formats and emerging media opportunities
Media Buying & Campaign Delivery
You'll gain practical experience in:
- Helping coordinate and deliver media campaigns
- Working with publishers, media owners, networks and digital platforms
- Understanding how media budgets are allocated
- Learning how media is negotiated and bought
- Tracking campaign timings, budgets and deliverables
- Working with our creative, content, digital and data teams to bring campaigns together
Performance, Data & Reporting
Data is a big part of modern advertising, so you'll learn how to:
- Monitor campaign performance
- Work with data to identify trends and insights
- Understand metrics such as impressions, reach, clicks, CTR, CPC and conversions
- Help prepare client reports
- Contribute to post-campaign analysis
- Turn results into recommendations for future campaigns
Commercial & Financial Skills
You'll also learn the commercial side of working in an agency, including:
- Preparing estimates and quotes
- Raising purchase orders and invoices
- Tracking campaign budgets
- Reconciling costs
- Understanding how projects and accounts perform financially
What we're looking for
We're looking for potential, not years of experience.
You'll ideally be someone who:
- Is genuinely interested in advertising, marketing, media and digital
- Enjoys social media and is interested in how brands use different platforms
- Is curious about what makes people notice, click, engage and take action
- Is comfortable working with numbers and data
- Has good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Communicates clearly and confidently
- Has excellent written and verbal English
- Is organised and pays attention to detail
- Is proactive and willing to take responsibility
- Enjoys being part of a team
- Is ambitious and wants to keep developing
- You'll also need to be comfortable using Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Continuous Professional Development
Learning doesn't stop with your apprenticeship.
At Hunterlodge, we're serious about Continuous Professional Development and have a long-established relationship with the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA).
What you'll get
As well as your salary and professional training, Hunterlodge offers:
- Annual profit-based bonus
- Workplace pension with employer contribution
- Mindfulness sessions and wellbeing days
- Regular company social events
- Comprehensive internal training
- Mentoring and support from experienced agency professionals
- Opportunities to develop your career within the advertising industry
- Most importantly, you'll get the opportunity to work on real clients, real briefs and real campaigns from the beginning.
Entry requirements
Applicants must:
- Have GCSE English and Maths at grade C/4 or above, or equivalent
- Have the right to work in the UK
- Have lived in the UK for the past three years
- Meet the eligibility requirements for the Level 3 apprenticeship
- Not have previously studied the apprenticeship course content at the same or a higher level
- Be able to work from our Rickmansworth office five days per week
No previous advertising, marketing or media experience is required.
Training to be provided
Advertising & Media Executive Level 3 Standard
An advertising and media executive will help with the day to day progress of the whole advertising process, from receiving the brief from the marketing team, including objectives, budget and timescales, through to the measurement of how effective the advertisement has been. In their daily work, they will interact with many other people, processes and systems. (For example the client, 3rd party suppliers, the broad team at the agency.) They help campaigns move forward, coping with inevitable setbacks and changes in direction (some at the last minute), whilst showing collaboration and maintaining relationships with all. Usually, they report to an Account or Media Manager.
They usually specialise in one of two parts of the advertising process: the first is the process of producing the advertisement (creative); the second is the process of distributing the advertisement (media). Apprentices must therefore complete the core apprenticeship and one of these options.
Training Sessions Overview
Seminar 1: Preparing for your apprenticeship
Seminar 2: Preparing for your employer
Seminar 3: Introduction to advertising
Seminar 4: The foundation of advertising
Seminar 5: Understanding commercial
Seminar 6: Advertising campaigns
Seminar 7: Advertising and Media standards & legislation
Seminar 8: Principles of Project Management
Seminar 9: Supply Chain Management
Seminar 10: Principles of third party
Seminar 11: The briefing and approval processes
Seminar 12: The media buying process - TV
Seminar 13: The media buying process – Out of home, Radio and Print.
Seminar 14: Negotiation techniques
Seminar 15: Data and media metrics
Seminar 16: Data and media metrics – Practical Excel session
Seminar 17: Media planning
Seminar 18: Distribution of Creative through the appropriate channels
Seminar 19: Evaluating campaign performance
For a full overview of the Advertising & Media Executive standard please click on the following link:
https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/advertising-and-media-executive-v1-0
Things to consider
Alongside your apprenticeship and our comprehensive internal training programme, you'll have opportunities to complete industry-recognised training and qualifications, including:
IPA Foundation Certificate
Digital Performance Certificate
Diversity & Inclusion qualification
Legal Regulations qualification
Commercial Certificate
Wider internal training across media, creative, digital, data and client services
All relevant professional training is fully funded by Hunterlodge.
Skills required
Array
Future prospects
Potential for full-time employment upon successful completion of the apprenticeship
Hours per week 37.5
Working week Monday to Friday
Apprenticeship standard Advertising and media executive (Level 3)
Rickmansworth, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, WD3 1AY
