Kepak Marketing Graduate Programme 2027 - UK
Requirements
The programme is open to graduates from all disciplines and backgrounds who are ambitious, hardworking, and keen to learn in a fast-paced environment. Candidates must be mobile and willing to travel to sites across the UK and Ireland, and should demonstrate initiative, accountability, ambition, passion for food, and teamwork.
Job Description
We are seeking to recruit for the 2027 Category and Customer Marketing Graduate Programme at our Kepak Kirkham site, home to Rustlers.
Start date: 6th September 2027
Check out our Graduate Hub on: https://www.kepak.com/careers/graduates/
The Programme:
Our Category & Customer Marketing Graduate programme is to help us to develop our Category or Marketing leaders of the future, and allows dynamic, motivated, hardworking, and passionate Graduates an opportunity to start their career with one of Ireland & UKs leading meat businesses. We will rotate you through both Category & Marketing to help you gain a great understanding of the business, before specialising towards the end of your programme and into your first role. The programme lasts 2 years and leads successful graduates onto potential career opportunities within the business.
You can expect:
- To be fully immersed into our Culture from day 1, working alongside key industry experts and Kepak leaders
- Gain an in depth understanding of our brands and products, and our relationships with customers and consumers
- Learn to understand performance data initially, and then analyse and make recommendations in the team to improve commercial performance
- Support the development of new products, including new packaging designs & marketing campaigns. Build your knowledge of your customers to understand their lifestyle, so that you can tailor all marketing activity to their needs
- Support the development of strategies for our brands, and the planning future marketing activities to help realise the strategy
- To learn key aspects of our business, whilst you develop your skills and knowledge
- The opportunity to develop personally and professionally through exposure to key projects, tasks and development activities that challenge you, all supported by a detailed learner journey and training plan
- A dedicated mentor and development program to support you both on the programme and into a role that best fits your skills
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for hardworking and ambitious Graduates, who want to learn and grow in a challenging and fast paced environment, by performing real roles as part of your rotations.
You must be mobile and willing to travel throughout the programme to undertake development activities at any of our sites in the UK and Ireland.
We will consider undergraduates from all disciplines and backgrounds.
We will be looking for alignment with our Core Values:
Responsibility - Ability to work on your own initiative and take accountability for your actions
Ambition - You will have the willingness and confidence to challenge yourself to be the best you can be and be driven to succeed
Passion for Food - this is at the heart of everything we do, you must be passionate about every aspect of our industry
Teamwork - ability to build positive relationships quickly with people from all cultures and career stages is pivotal
Benefits
- Employee Discount Scheme
- Educational Assistance/ L&D
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance programme
Skills
About Kepak Group
Kepak Group is a family-owned food company and one of Europe’s leading producers, with over 4,500 people across 14 sites in Ireland and the UK, and a global footprint across Europe, the US, Asia and Africa. We produce fresh and value-added meat products for retail and foodservice customers worldwide, supported by brands including Rustlers, Big Al’s and John Stone. Our people are at the heart of Kepak. We’re focused on building careers, developing skills and creating real opportunities to grow. Our culture is open, practical and down to earth — built on teamwork, respect and a shared focus on getting the job done well. We continue to invest in how we work, the quality of our products and the needs of our customers, while working closely with our farmer partners to produce food responsibly. Kepak is growing and evolving — and we’re looking for people who want to grow with us. Find out more at www.kepak.com Innovation and quality is the lifeblood of Kepak Group’s business ethos. Kepak continuously invest in consumer insight and innovation through research and development. As a founding member of Origin Green, the group has a strong reputation for sustainable food production and farming practices. Kepak have a portfolio of market leading brands including Rustlers, Big Al’s, Crafty Chef and John Stone. At Kepak, our ambition to grow as a business is equaled only by our ambition to grow the careers and personal satisfaction of our people. As a family-owned company, our culture is open and welcoming. For more information, please visit www.kepak.com
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