Marketing & Business Foundations Trainee

Part of the Veitchi Group, Veitchi Flooring is an established Scottish business with a history dating to 1917. We serve major contractors, public-sector organisations, commercial customers and specialist end users across Scotland and beyond.

Role

Full Time/Permanent – Monday to Thursday 08:00am to 17:00pm & Friday, 08:00am to 16:00pm.
Location: Glasgow
Salary Rate: Competitive, dependent on experience

About the Opportunity

We are now looking to employ a Marketing & Business Foundations Trainee to become part of our team.

Start your career with practical marketing responsibilities while learning how a construction business works. You will contribute from day one and gain structured experience in estimating, commercial management, operations, project delivery and customer relationships.

You do not need a fixed career plan. We want someone with practical marketing skills, energy and a willingness to work hard, learn and take responsibility. Your longer-term direction will develop around your strengths, interests and business needs.

Your Starting Point: Marketing & Communications

Working with colleagues across the business, you will:

• Develop our LinkedIn and wider social-media presence, planning regular content and monitoring engagement.
• Gather photographs and stories about projects, contract awards, people, apprentices and community activity.
• Create case studies, presentations, capability information and promotional material.
• Support advertising, targeted campaigns, customer and industry events.
• Research markets and opportunities, maintain customer information and suggest ways to improve our visibility.

Business Foundations Rotation

Planned rotations will show you how work is identified, secured, priced, delivered and promoted:

• Estimating: Tender documents, measurements, supplier quotations, labour, pricing, risk and handover. Estimating, quotation updates and formal quote tracking remain with the estimator and commercial team.
• Commercial: Budgets, costs, margins, valuations, change management, contractual risk and reporting.
• Operations and Project Delivery: Planning, labour, materials, programmes, health, safety, quality and customer expectations, including turning completed work into case studies.
• Customers and Market Awareness: Relationships, repeat business, target sectors, opportunity selection and customer feedback.

The 110-Year Anniversary

Help deliver a live marketing project marking our 110-year anniversary: research historic projects and photographs, gather stories, create digital and printed content, and support events, community and employee activities across the business and Group.

Development and Longer-Term Direction

Regular reviews will consider progress, strengths, interests, departmental feedback, training needs and opportunities across Veitchi Flooring and the wider Group. Your career could develop towards marketing, estimating, commercial management, project coordination, operations or business improvement. No specialist route is fixed at the outset.

About You

You must bring practical marketing and content-creation ability; we will teach you the wider business. You should be able to:

• Create and publish business-focused social content, write clear copy and turn colleagues’ information into accurate, engaging stories.
• Use Canva, PowerPoint or similar tools, with an eye for photography, presentation and consistent branding.
• Plan a content calendar, monitor engagement, check facts, protect sensitive information and obtain approval before publishing.
• Show relevant examples from employment, education, volunteering, freelancing or personal projects.

You will also be organised, numerate, curious and proactive; communicate confidently; work independently and in a team; and be comfortable with Excel, Word and PowerPoint. An interest in AI and automation, willingness to visit projects and readiness to take increasing responsibility are important.

A degree or formal marketing job is not essential. We welcome graduates, college and suitably qualified school leavers, early-career applicants and career changers with demonstrable marketing ability. Construction or flooring experience is helpful, not essential.

Qualifications and Training

Depending on your background and agreed career direction, we may support further study in business, marketing, construction, quantity surveying, commercial or project management, data, AI or automation.

Interested?

If you would like an opportunity to discuss this role further, please email your CV to careers@veitchi.com