Digital Marketing Apprentice in Blackburn

We're looking for a creative, passionate Digital Marketing Apprentice to support our brand growth at Vital Energi. You'll bring fresh ideas, help create engaging content, and contribute to design and marketing campaigns. A great opportunity to learn, grow, and make a real impact in a supportive team.

Vital Energi pay above the national apprenticeship wage and may, at its discretion, award a pay increment following an initial 6-month probation period.

Training course: Multi-channel marketer (level 3)

Hours: Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 5.00pm. 38 hours a week.

Start date: Monday 7 September 2026

Duration: 1 year 6 months

What you’ll do at work:

• Develop or interpret briefs for external or internal stakeholders and measure delivery in-line with the specification and agreed timelines.
• Plan and coordinate a marketing activity using marketing tactics to acquire and retain one or more customer segments using available resources.
• Contribute to the generation of innovative and creative approaches across video, images, and other formats, both online and offline, to support campaign development.
• Use research/survey software to gather audience insight and/or evaluation to support the project.
• Use copywriting techniques to write persuasive text/copy to meet a communications objective ensuring it is in-line with organisational brand guidelines.
• Build and implement multi-channel campaigns across a variety of platforms, either offline or digital media.
• Proofread marketing copy ensuring it is accurate, persuasive and is on brand.
• Use software to design and create marketing assets to meet the technical specification.
• Contribute to the research of external suppliers to support recommendations and procurement of marketing goods and services.
• Organise offline and digital assets ensuring they are coordinated and legally compliant.
• Use a website content management system to publish text, images, and video/animated content.
• Create and maintain spreadsheets to support marketing activities such as project/budget planning and organisation of marketing assets.
• Use technology and software packages to support day-to-day activities, e.g. stakeholder communications, development of briefs, data analysis, report writing, presentations and project management.
• Identify and use data and technologies to achieve marketing objectives.
• Monitor and amend campaigns to meet budget requirements including time and monetary costs.
• Review campaigns regularly to ensure effectiveness, to optimise the results.
• Measure and evaluate campaign delivery to identify areas for improvement.
• Use data analysis tools to record, interpret and analyse customer or campaign data.

Where you’ll work: Century House, Roman Road, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1 2LD

Training: Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills. You will be based at our Head Office in Blackburn 4 days a week, and complete your day release programme at Burnley College.

Requirements: GCSE in Maths, English (grade 4 or equivalent or above). Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills: Analytical skills, Creative, Initiative

About this employer: Vital Energi is undergoing significant growth to meet the increasing demand for energy-saving and low-carbon energy projects. We are an energy solutions provider who design, build, operate and maintain low carbon energy projects. We support hospitals, universities, residential developments, towns and cities, as well as industrial and commercial clients to decarbonise their buildings.

The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/or merit. It is company policy that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sexual orientation, race, colour, age, ethnic or national origins, political affiliations, religious beliefs, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, gender reassignment, physical disability or is disadvantaged by unjustifiable conditions or requirements.

Only applicants who are legally entitled to work in the UK and are currently resident in the UK are invited to apply.

Free on-site gym. Company health plan access on successful completion of probation period.

After this apprenticeship: Our current apprentices have progressed onto Creative Digital Design Professional (integrated degree), Level: 6 whilst maintaining full-time employment at Vital Energi, and have secured full-time positions within the organisation.

Apply now: Closes on Tuesday 31 March 2026. After signing in, you’ll apply for this apprenticeship on the company's website.