We have 25 years’ experience recruiting and developing graduates trainees in marketing roles.

Central to the success of our Marketing Department is the recruitment and development of graduates.  A number of our key positions, including Head of Digital Marketing and even Managing Director started their career with 288 Group as Graduate Trainees.  Many others have gone on to develop their marketing careers in senior marketing roles within organisations such as the RSPB, Nationwide, RBS and Blue Square.

What we offer Graduate Trainees

After an initial four-week induction, we’ll give a “real job” from day one in one of the following roles:

• Junior Product Manager – working on the development, merchandising and marketing of a specific group of products.
• Junior Digital Marketing Exec – managing products online, producing email marketing and executing digital advertising campaigns.
• Junior Marketing Exec – co-ordinating our offline advertising activity, including direct mail and national press advertising.

You may remain in a single role for your 2 year training period or you may move between positions.

As well as extensive on-the-job experience, we also offer you a £5,000 tailored personal training budget to include:

• The Essentials of Digital Marketing or The Essentials of Direct Marketing – during your first 3 months.
• Specific training courses to suit your requirements, for example: Excel, Assertiveness, Time Management

Our Graduate Training timeline below shows a typical training plan for a graduate in their first 2 years.

As well as a good salary, you receive 25 days holiday a year + your birthday off, and we’ll cover the cost of your Student Loan repayments during your first 5 years.  In addition, you receive a number of other benefits and perks.

A successful graduate can expect to be earning up to £30,000 + bonus after 2 years.

Regular Assessment and Feedback

It’s always difficult to know how you are developing when you first set out on your career.  That’s why we have a system of regular assessment and feedback that helps ensure your development is on-track during your first two years.

What we are looking for

Don’t worry, we are not looking for Marketing experts.  What we do want is bright, keen and enthusiastic people with some common-sense and general knowledge.

Most successful candidates have 3 B-grades or better at A-level and a 2.i degree but neither are essential if you stand-out as been an excellent candidate in other ways.

Similarly, we often recruit candidates with English, History or Humanities degrees, as well as Marketing and Business, but equally we have employed candidates with Maths and Drama degrees.

Your personality and drive are the most important factors; we’re here to help develop your work and marketing skills.

Watch James’ Story – one of our Graduate Trainees

HOW TO APPLY

We typically advertise Graduate Trainee position 2 to 3 times a year.  If it is not listed in the Current Vacancies below, you can click here to register to receive a notification when we are next recruiting.

To apply, you will need to complete the online application process, providing us with your C.V. and a covering letter.  If we like what we see, we’ll invite you to an Assessment Day with between 6 and 10 other graduates.

The internet provides an ideal platform to tell the engaging stories that help people really get into collecting. Consequently digital marketing is at the heart of what we do, and we have a team of Digital Marketing Executives working to support the business in the following areas:

• Email campaigns
• Paid advertising on Facebook, Google and other platforms
• Content generation and marketing
• Social media
• Testing new platforms and technologies

With such a diverse range of brands, products and campaigns, digital marketing at 288 Group is different every day and provides an exciting challenge in a fast paced environment.

We have a strong social media presence, with a particularly active Facebook community of Change Checkers, who also use our Web App to collect and swap the coins in the their pocket.

Product Management

Our experienced product management team forms the backbone of the Marketing Department, with responsibility for everything to do with the product from the initial concept, through its development, managing the supply change and planning and implementing the final marketing.

In effect each Product Manager, who looks after their own range of products, has their very own business, with true responsibility for its sales and profitability.

Our team of designers produce a real range of creative work from new coin designs and product packaging, to print-ready advertising artwork, as well as a whole host of digital graphics.  We also have in-house video production, which we use for TV ad production and online videos.