Marketing Apprentice - News Broadcasting

Marketing Apprentice - News Broadcasting

Start date: March 2026

Location: London

Course: Level 3 Marketing

Length: 24 Month FTC

We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning audio, TV and video content for millions of people across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio - home to The Chris Evans Breakfast Show. talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is an official broadcaster of the Premier League. Launched in June 2020 Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar and Aasmah Mir. Plus Talk The Home Of Common Sense.

The Team: We are the News Broadcasting Marketing team, dedicated to building campaigns, creativity, media planning and growing our broadcasting brands - including talkSPORT, Virgin Radio and Talk.

Your Role: As the Marketing Apprentice for News Broadcasting, you will be dedicated to supporting the wider Marketing team on all campaigns for talkSPORT (including talkSPORT BET) and Virgin Radio. You will work extremely closely with the Marketing Manager, CRM Lead and Integrated Campaign Manager (Competitions) to drive marketing effectiveness on a daily basis that ladder up to our wider initiatives. You’ll also work very closely with our Creative agency to support day-to-day creative efforts to market the brands, plus staying close to our Digital Marketing agency to support paid marketing. Crucially, you will be helping to drive engagement in our brand new Free-to-Play game building our players, focused on driving sign ups to talkSPORT BET as a result. During your time with us you will earn above living wage, get full training, study towards a Level 3 Marketing qualification (with your course fees paid). You will also receive mentoring/coaching from the industry’s best, as well as any other equity you might need to fulfil your full potential.

Day to day you will:

• Support the Marketing Manager on day-to-day efforts to build our marketing campaigns, working closely with our creative agency, including social/digital first outputs on a daily basis
• Build engagement plans to support growth in players on our free-to-play game, working closely with the Betting and Gaming team
• Work closely with the Integrated Campaign Manager to support our paid competitions, driving engagement and revenue for the business
• Support our CRM Lead on building engagement plans for our listeners and players

What we’re looking for from you:

• Passionate about sport - you should live and breathe what it takes to build engagement with a sport-loving audience
• Digital-first - bring ideas on what it takes to reach an audience on social and digital platforms
• Creatively curious - ambitious with a creative mindset and can challenge our creative agency to deliver big campaigns
• You are proactive and can pivot at pace, but remain focused in a fast-paced environment with multiple deliverables
• A people person - excellent stakeholder management skills, ability to engage with colleagues and drive our campaigns forward
• Strong communication skills across the organisation, keeping stakeholders updated on the project status, clarity in briefing and articulating expectations from all stakeholder
• Data skills with an understanding of the technical tools and systems such as Adobe that deliver our campaigns

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

Application Process

Online Application > Google Meet Interview > Assessment Centre

As part of the Online Application process, we would like you to provide answers to our application questions:

• Explain how would you engage a sport loving audience with a digital-first approach?
• Tell us why you want to pursue a career in the marketing industry?
• How would you describe talkSPORT and what do you like/dislike about it?

Please note that we will be running the assessment centres in March 2026.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy. At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and Next Gen.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times.
• Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you to apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.