Job Specifications
NB: To qualify for the apprenticeship funding, the individual must have a valid and eligible residency status. This requires residency in the UK (or British Overseas Territories) for at least 3 years prior to the start of the apprenticeship.
Title: Apprentice Marketing Assistant
Contract: 2-year, Fixed Term Contract
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £27,081 per annum
Reporting Office: Manchester, Old Trafford
Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be
worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)
Closing date for completed applications: 16th November 2025 at 11 PM
Interviews will tentatively be conducted on 1st December 2025.
Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 5% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…
**Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.
The L&Q Early Talent Programme has been designed to help you get the career you have always wanted. This role provides the opportunity to start a new career path with a values-led organisation that will support you to learn and develop throughout the programme and beyond.
Introduction:
The new homes marketing team works across L&Q’s sale and rental tenures to promote our homes for sale and rent to potential customers and deliver quality, educated leads for our sales team. This ensures we can meet our ambitious sales targets. The team consists of marketing, PR and digital colleagues.
Overview of the role:
This is an ideal role for an individual looking to start a career in marketing in a company with high profile residential developments. For the successful candidate there will be lots of opportunities to progress your career in marketing.
You will provide administrative support to the marketing team in order to implement effective and efficient marketing plans and campaigns for the sales sites. You will act as the first point of contact for internal customers, external suppliers and stakeholders.
The role will be varied and include managing email accounts, raising purchase orders, processing invoices and updating IT systems where necessary. You will collate on and off-line marketing collateral including sales brochures, digital placements, imagery, media and PR coordination for each development.
A large part of the role will also include keeping our website and property portals up to date with accurate data and information each week and in line with guidelines as well as compiling weekly email marketing to nurture the existing lead database.
You will contribute to marketing strategies and creative briefs through regular competitive analysis producing reports where required. You will also collate local information for prospective buyers to help our wider vision of improving the customer experience and journey.
You will also co-ordinate the creative pitches for branding, websites, video content, signage, interior design etc as required for our wide range of developments. When we’re close to launching a new build development, you will assist the Marketing Manager with ensuring the sales team are well-equipped with everything they need to run a sales office.
What you'll bring:
To be successful in this role, you will have:
Capability to undertake accurate and efficient office processes
Computer literate with good proven competency in MS Office (CMS systems, email marketing platforms, CRM systems and Photoshop is desirable).
Strong organisational skills
Ability to multitask and meet strict deadlines
Proactive with strong initiative
Strong, effective communication with all internal and external parties
If you are interested in this role and have the experience required, then apply without delay!
Apprenticeship details: Level 4 Marketing Executive Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship entry requirements: A minimum of 5 GCES grade 4 to 9 including Maths and English.
We look forward to reviewing your application, and hearing about the genuine experiences and skills you could bring to our organisation. L&Q reserve the right to not accept statements that exceed 500 words.
About L&Q:
We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.
250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South-East and North-West of England.
At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values and behavioura
About the Company
L&Q is one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers.
We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.
Today that passion about the importance of housing, and our not-for-profit ethos, gives us our social purpose.
All our resources and all our energy are channelled towards providing better housing at a lower cost than can be provided in the private sector – and b...
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