Have you got passion, drive, good communication skills and a positive outlook? Would you love to earn while you learn and achieve a Level 4 qualification? If so, this apprenticeship could be the perfect opportunity for you!

This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to advance their IT career, the apprentice will find themselves in a supportive team environment and will be mentored appropriately to achieve their apprenticeship qualification.

With the guidance and support of your manager, this role requires:

• You will receive a brief to follow and meet goals set
• Must follow all company policies and procedures
• Demonstrates excellent time keeping and time management
• Must meet own KPI’s for own job and works completed
• Supports Management by analysing and providing data on various objectives
• Manages a given database or databases, such as keeping detailed records of various database types such as business development sheets
• Understands and applies basic marketing principles and customer lifecycle, role of customer relationship marketing.
• Shares best practice to team
• Pro-actively looks for new ways we can improve as a team or as a Company
• Assists management by providing visual reports to the Directors to aid in business decisions
• Achieves deadlines and goals
• Develops strategies to achieve performance goals
• Conducts team meetings to update members on best practices and continuing expectations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Qualifications

• Qualifications to include either 5 GCSEs (grades 9-4 or equivalent including Maths and English)

Desired Skills

• Current relevant legislation and its application to the safe use of data
• Organisational data and information security standards, policies and procedures relevant to data management activities
• Principles of the data life cycle and the steps involved in carrying out routine data analysis tasks.
• Principles of data, including open and public data, administrative data, and research data
• The differences between structured and unstructured data
• The fundamentals of data structures, database system design, implementation and maintenance
• Principles of user experience and domain context for data analytics
• Quality risks inherent in data and how to mitigate/resolve these
• Principal approaches to defining customer requirements for data analysis
• Approaches to combining data from different sources
• Approaches to organisational tools and methods for data analysis
• Organisational data architecture
• Principles of statistics for analysing datasets
• The principles of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics
• The ethical aspects associated with the use of and collation of data

Desired Personal Qualities:

• Maintain productive, professional and secure working environment
• Shows initiative, being resourceful when faced with a problem and taking responsibility for solving problems within their own remit
• Works independently and collaboratively
• Logical and analytical
• Identifies issues quickly, enjoys investigating and solving complex problems and applies appropriate solutions. Has a strong desire to push to ensure the true root cause of any problem is found and a solution is identified which prevents recurrence.
• Collaborate and communicate with a range of internal and external stakeholders using appropriate styles and behaviours to suit the audience
• Use a range of analytical techniques such as data mining, time series forecasting and modelling techniques to identify and predict trends and patterns in data
• Collate and interpret qualitative and quantitative data and convert into infographics, reports, tables, dashboards and graphs

Pay & further details:

• Salary: £7
• Apprenticeship Duration: 18 months
• Location: Birmingham
• Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week
• 24 days holiday

Eligibility Criteria:

• Nationality requirements:
- Must be a UK National or have a naturalisation certificate
- Must be a UK resident for 4 out of the last 5 years