About Us

UM is a media agency designed to Futureproof our clients’ businesses for the now and the next. We leverage the transformational power of rich business analytics and real-time intelligence to maximize growth and activate the full consumer journey across content and connections – all rooted in culture.

We believe in purposeful growth, and our Better World Media philosophy puts diversity, equity and sustainability at the heart of our business operations. We are committed to investing in diverse and responsible media partners, in order to drive more meaningful and authentic messaging for our clients.

As the leading global media network in IPG Mediabrands, UM operates in over 100 countries, with more than 3,000 people innovating on a roster of global clients. Here in the UK we are proud to work with some of the world’s most exciting brands, including Accenture, American Express, Just Eat Takeaway, Johnson & Johnson, Mattel, MoneySuperMarket and Spotify.

London is also the home of our UM EMEA Headquarters, providing the full spectrum of integrated media and marketing services to global clients across the region. Our in-house tools and technology capabilities, driven by a truly multi-national, talented and passionate team of people, makes us perfectly placed to create tailored, regional solutions for a diverse range of clients. As a regional hub, we act as a catalyst to integrate and connect – fuelling central strategies with both local insights and regional expertise. We have specialists across brand strategy, research & insight, data-driven analytics, 360 digital media planning and content creation, and we bring all of these disciplines together to provide frameworks that optimise our clients’ advertising investment in each market.

Role Description

APPLICATIONS CLOSED

An exciting opportunity to join the most vibrant UM team and drive forward both our strategy product & Futureproof positioning. 

Working with a combination of leading household brands in the Technology, Travel, Beauty, Food Delivery, FMCG sectors, including Dyson, Listerine, Just Eat & American Express. We’ll allocate the clients based on your experience, personal preference and career aspirations.

Some of your time to be allocated to new business projects, writing the strategic audiences approach for UK pitches or interpreting / localising global audiences for the UK.

You will work collaboratively with multiple teams across the Mediabrands network, whilst having autonomy to manage key deliverables within the team.

Role Responsibilities 

Support strategy team in Identifying audiences for growth

• Create Audience pen portraits
• Building a rich, inspiring and insightful picture of communities in the UK
• Building Audiences in industry tools…TGI, YouGov and UM’s Data Stack.
• Sizing the business and media task
• Spotting volume/value opportunities for media to source growth
• Spotting cultural/ data opportunities that can unlock business growth and futureproof client business
• Seeking out wider-world resources
• Creating beautiful presentations
• Working across both existing UM Clients and New Biz Opps

Support & fuel the creation of industry leading ideas across Strategy, Content, Partnerships and Media

• Finding insights/ tensions that spark creativity

Collaborate with research team developing questionnaires

• Creating & testing hypotheses
• Ensuring all relevant data is collected to build a complete and robust story

Support in delivering segmentations

About You

• A curious mind – truth seeking and the ability to build hypotheses
• Passion for people and culture, what makes them tick
• A creative thinker
• Ambitious about at story telling – learning how to bring data to life and lift it off the page
• Keen to learn to read, interpret and process data, and work with the data strategists, speaking confidently about data solutions
• A problem solver, looking outside of what’s been done before to move on and improve
• Highly ambitious, with a thirst for continually learning and delivering an improvement UM product
• Highly personable with a collaborative spirit, who develops good working relationships internally and externally with ease.
• Supports team environment of experimentation and collaboration, creating a high standard within the agency
• Excellent in front of clients and in leading meetings and presenting to stakeholders
• You will have an ambition to get involved in the broader agency culture as well as building UM’s reputation in the wider industry

Eligibility criteria to complete the Apprenticeship:

• You do not hold a prior qualification at the same or higher level which is similar to this apprenticeship (Level 3 Advertising and Media Executive). A-Levels and below are fine.
• You are not studying towards a qualification at the same or higher level which is similar to this apprenticeship (Level 3 Advertising and Media Executive). A-Levels and below are fine.
• You are not on another Department for Education funded training programme, including another apprenticeship or studying. 
• You have the right to work and live in the UK (You cannot begin an apprenticeship on a Student Visa).
• You have lived in the UK, EEA, Gibraltar or Switzerland for at least 3 years.
• GCSE Grade A-C or 9 – 5 in English and Maths is preferable. If you have not achieved a grade C/ 5 and above, you will be required to take a Level 2 qualification in Maths and English alongside your other qualification.
• You are aged 18+.