Job description
About us
We are a leading provider of General Insurance and Financial Services. From our strong farming roots, we’ve grown to become a UK-wide organisation, turning over £1billion annually. Yet success hasn’t gone to our heads. We’re proud to remain completely customer focused, down-to-earth, and committed to the rural communities we’ve grown from.
Our ethos - of trust, respect, and personal service - lies at the heart of all we do and has seen us build an enviable reputation for exceptional member loyalty. Though we’ve been in business for over 110 years, we have big ambitions for the future. And that’s why we’re looking for talented people to join our growing organisation.
Our Award-Winning Graduate Schemes are an investment in you and your career. You'll gain a rewarding balance of on and off the job learning and hands-on experience, through a structured and insightful training programme; and we'll support you to complete a number of professional qualifications too, helping you sharpen up the skills you need to progress in your chosen career path.
The three-year graduate programmes are designed to actively help you develop and give you everything you need to shape a rewarding career. You'll be supported at every step of your journey, with a dedicated buddy and mentor on hand to guide you, as well as a great network of current and previous graduates.
And it’s not all work. We actively encourage our graduates to participate in extra curricular activities aligned to our Environmental, Social, Governance framework, be that volunteering, participating, and organising charity and social events, and representing the organisation at external events, to name but a few.
The Role
Looking for an opportunity to grow with a successful company, enjoying on-the-job learning and gaining professional qualifications whilst adding value to the business? Then, look no further. Our Professional Trainee Scheme is a real investment in you. With ambitious plans ahead here at NFU Mutual, we’re looking to find and develop individuals who have the potential to shape the future of our £billion, award-winning organisation.
As a marketing, communications and digital graduate you will contribute towards driving the long-term direction of NFU Mutual’s business. You will sit within the Marketing and Digital division which is made up of Marketing (Brand, Shows and Campaigns), Digital, Communications and Reputation (PR, Social Media, ESG and Internal Communications).
In marketing our key purpose is to develop and implement our marketing strategy and plan to achieve our objectives, which we do through a variety of marketing activities such as TV and radio advertising, direct marketing, integrated campaigns, supporting our Agents with local area marketing support right through to creating brand experiences at our agricultural shows. Whilst our communications department ensures we defend and promote the company’s reputation as well as connecting people with NFU Mutual and its values. Our Digital department is forward-thinking, data-driven and solution-focused working across a range of activities such as digital marketing in the form of PPC and digital display to delivering our online customer accounts and website as well as detailed analytics analysis and reporting.
We love numbers and we track all our activity to make sure we are delivering a positive return on investment. Whether that’s understanding the volume of calls we’re delivering right through to knowing what our brand awareness and consideration scores are.
We’re proud of our brand’s rich heritage and its focus on doing right by our customers. So, we work together to understand what makes our customers tick. We create products that meet and exceed their expectations. We communicate with them across a range of media channels. And most of all, we always look to improve, so we can help them prepare for what tomorrow brings.
Job Specification
As a marketing, communications and digital graduate you will experience a number of roles within our large and diverse division. As well as gaining a wide range of work experience to launch your career we’ll also support you to complete your marketing CIM or IDM - we’ll work with you to understand where your strengths and interests lie in order to choose the right development programme for you.
You’ll begin your journey in our head offices at Stratford-upon-Avon in a marketing specific role, which could either be in the brand or marketing campaigns team – we’ll even get you involved in our summer agricultural shows season! This will give you a wide view of the marketing and digital division. You’ll then move into one of our other areas such as Communications to get hands on experience with the likes of PR or social media and then you’ll finish your last placement in the digital department where you may experience anything from PPC to publishing website pages.
At the end of the scheme, we aim to promote you to a permanent role within the department or business area that fits the best with your skills and passion.
Person Specification
- Excellent communication skills and very articulate
- A passion and interest in marketing, communications and digital
- Enthusiastic with a positive can-do attitude
- Proactive and have a hard-working ethos
- Collaborative – fantastic at working as part of a team
- Leadership potential
- Creative problem-solving skills
- Analytical skills – can look at data and understand what it is telling you
- Excellent attention to detail but also show the ability to see the bigger picture
- Adaptable to different situations
- Customer focused – ability to put themselves in customers shoes
Qualifications/Other
- 2:1 Degree in any subject
- Proficient in Microsoft programmes
Stratford-upon-Avon
Tiddington Road
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 7BJ
Vacancy managed by
Aimee Harding