Digital Merchandising Apprentice - Times

Digital Merchandising Apprentice
- Times Holidays

Location:

London

Department

Times Media

Salary Range:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

28 Sep 2026

Duration:2 Year Apprenticeship

Start Date:

January 2027

Location:

London Bridge

Your team: The Travel team operates across three divisions under the Travel Director:
Commercial, Partnerships, and Retail. The Commercial team focuses on selling advertising solutions across print and digital platforms, while the Partnerships team works with tour operators and travel agents to generate performance-based revenue. Times Holidays is the newest business in the Travel Team and launched in July 2025 as an in-house travel agency selling bespoke holidays directly to Times print and digital audiences.

The Campaign Management and Merchandising team is responsible for managing end-to-end marketing campaigns, executing visual presentation, and leading commercial positioning and promotional strategy for travel products across digital and print platforms. They collaborate closely with the Times Holidays Product team to translate curated travel itineraries into high-performing online assets, oversee CMS publishing, maintain style and URL link integrity, and curate strategic content to drive ecommerce revenue and conversion targets.

Additionally, the team handles partner campaign deployment, multi-channel marketing execution (including newsletters and social media), and commercial reporting and analysis.

There are approx. 20 team members of the News UK Travel team, plus five dedicated travel agents.

Your role: Reporting to the Merchandising and Campaign Manager, the Digital Merchandising Apprentice will help drive sales and customer engagement by managing the visual presentation and promotion of travel products for Times Holidays. This role is responsible for sourcing relevant travel packages, crafting engaging web copy, and optimising promotional content across digital and print marketing channels.

Being an apprentice at The Times: During your time with us, you will earn above the national living wage while receiving comprehensive, hands-on training. You'll work 4 days a week with The Times and spend 1 day studying toward a fully funded Marketing Level 3 Qualification. Along with mentorship from top industry professionals, we will provide any tailored support you need to reach your full potential.

• Build and optimise travel product packages aligned with editorial content across social media, newsletters, and the website.

• Write engaging website copy and maintain asset/image libraries from travel partners.

• Integrate content into the Word Press CMS, generate tracked booking URLs, and audit link accuracy.

• Collate supplier offers and communicates key promotions to internal teams in monthly roundups.

• Track traffic metrics and travel trends to continuously refine merchandising strategies.

• Spend 4 days gaining hands-on experience and 1 day studying toward your Level 4 Sales Executive Qualification.

• Be part of a commercial team focused on selling holidays to customers and being part of the travel industry

• Working with Google Suite, AI tools, and data analysis in Excel or Google Sheets.

• Understanding and interest in the online travel environment with broad knowledge of destinations, providers, touring, cruise, and current industry trends.

• Data-literate and comfortable working toward sales targets and commercial KPIs.

• Detail-oriented, highly organised, self-driven, and collaborative in a fast-moving environment.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our news brands 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.

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