Commercial Apprentice

We are looking for an Apprentice to come and work within our Commercial team to assist the Senior Commercial Executive and Group Commercial Director in a junior supportive role across all elements of the Commercial and contractual requirements of Group and wider businesses.

The Department

• The Commercial Department forms a key part of the Business Partner team within What's Possible Group (WPG), overseeing all commercial and contractual arrangements and documentation involving clients, partners, and external third parties. Our core responsibilities include initiating, negotiating, and finalising commercial and contractual terms on behalf of our clients and external partners. This also encompasses the ongoing management, review, and refinement of these agreements, as well as any broader contractual obligations across the Group — including TSW, Connections, Ireland, and our Make Possible companies, Vector and Pashn.
• The Commercial Department plays a pivotal role in shaping and safeguarding the commercial integrity of the Agency. We ensure all agreements are robust, commercially sound, and aligned with the strategic interests of the wider Group.

What you’ll be doing:

• Arranging, with training and support from Senior Commercial Executive, basic commercial documentation for clients and internal teams such as NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreements), DPAs (Data Protection Agreements) and Client Sharepoint permissions.  From reviewing standard terms (with manager overview and teaching), drafting documents from templates, sending them via Docusign, chasing and filing.
• Assist in the administration and tracking of all commercial documentation and key information including helping to instigate client commercial summaries for internal teams and database of key client commercial parameters.
• Assisting in information gathering (internally) and chasing on information for pulling together broader commercial projects and pitches.
• Assist on administration of commercials and contractual paperwork on any partner or referral third party arrangements.
• Supporting the Commercial team as an administration superstar to increase day-to-day output including assisting in running trading reports and reconciliations using internal booking system and Excel.
• You will champion your own development through regular training sessions, on job learning, and personal objectives set by you and your manager.  This will include broader training on key media channels.
• You will do all the above while demonstrating the ability to be friendly, yet assertive, when working with other team members, wider agency staff (quite often at senior level), external partners and clients to complete work to our required standard.

Key Deliverables:

What will this role deliver in 6,9, 12 months?:

• Being proficient with key commercial processes, documentation and requirements.
• Identifying problems/threats and escalating to management if necessary
• Good relationships being formed with internal staff across all part of the Group (even at senior level), agency partners and Clients.
• The ability to deal with base commercial documentation and broad knowledge of key requirements.
• Working more independently and ‘owning’ the areas you work on in terms of the baseline commercial documentation and administration.
• Gaining a wider knowledge of the commercial and contractual conversations and understanding key contractual terms and how commercial arrangements are negotiated.
• Gaining a broad knowledge across all aspects of media and marketing services provided by the Group.

Who you will be:

• Mature attitude.
• Confident
• Discreet/confidential (team deals with a lot of highly confidential information)
• Risk ‘adverse’
• Reliable
• Discreet
• Likes sense of ‘order’ and process

Benefits of Position:

• Part of small team – not ‘lost’ in larger team – exposure to more senior people:
• Good experience
• Part of busy/close knit team
• Opportunity to learn multiple areas/disciples e.g. Commercial/financial; Legal and Media/advertising.
• Good progression path/room to grown within small team

Our Values

Passion: You share your excitement about what drives you

Inquisitiveness: Ask “what’s possible?”.  Ask “why not?”

Caring: Be a good professional, a good colleague and a good human

Knowledge: Know plenty. Share it. Learn more.

And we live them every day #IamPICK

Social and Environmental Commitment

At What’s Possible Group, our mission is to build a group our people are proud of. Proud of what we deliver to clients. Proud of how we treat each other. Proud of our commitment to people, planet and profit.

Having rolled out a What’s Possible University with learning modules & policies, including anti bribery & corruption, DE&I and code of ethics, our people have continuous personal development, and the group is continuously improving. 

We are dedicated to embedding social and environmental responsibility into every aspect of our business. You'll contribute to initiatives that promote social equity, diversity, and inclusion within our workplace and in the content, we create, whilst actively supporting and promoting sustainable best practice by, continuously working to minimise waste, (for example, water & cardboard recycling), prioritise eco-friendly suppliers, (for example, renewable energy switch), and promote remote work to reduce carbon emissions.  

Your role will include supporting these efforts by helping to implement green office practices, coordinating initiatives that enhance our corporate social responsibility, and ensuring our operations align with our values of sustainability and social responsibility.

Our Values

• Passion: You share your excitement about what drives you
• Inquisitiveness: Ask “what’s possible?”.  Ask “why not?”
• Caring: Be a good professional, a good colleague and a good human
• Knowledge: Know plenty. Share it. Learn more.
• And we live them every day #IamPICK

Social and Environmental Commitment

• At What’s Possible Group, our mission is to build a group our people are proud of. Proud of what we deliver to clients. Proud of how we treat each other. Proud of our commitment to people, planet and profit.
• Having rolled out a What’s Possible University with learning modules & policies, including anti bribery & corruption, DE&I and code of ethics, our people have continuous personal development, and the group is continuously improving. 
• We are dedicated to embedding social and environmental responsibility into every aspect of our business. You'll contribute to initiatives that promote social equity, diversity, and inclusion within our workplace and in the content, we create, whilst actively supporting and promoting sustainable best practice by, continuously working to minimise waste, (for example, water & cardboard recycling), prioritise eco-friendly suppliers, (for example, renewable energy switch), and promote remote work to reduce carbon emissions.  
• Your role will include supporting these efforts by helping to implement green office practices, coordinating initiatives that enhance our corporate social responsibility, and ensuring our operations align with our values of sustainability and social responsibility.