Paid placements in Manchester

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Aquaint is a Manchester software company. We are taking on two people for six-month paid placements. You learn on the job, get paid from day one and finish with real work to show for it.

25 hours a week

6 months

Paid monthly

Spinningfields, Manchester

Tell us you're interested

What Aquaint does

Our app helps teams run their daily checks, food safety and team communication from a phone, instead of paper checklists and WhatsApp groups. We started in hospitality, so pubs, restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels, and now work with care homes, gyms and warehouses too. More than 80 brands and 2,000 people use it across the UK. We are a small team, so you work directly with the founders and see how a whole business runs, not one corner of it.

Two roles. Pick the one that sounds like you.

Sales

Trainee Sales Development Representative

You work with Rohan, who ran pubs and restaurants for ten years before moving into tech.

What you'll do

Find pubs, restaurant groups, care homes, gyms and other multi-site businesses that could use Aquaint
Message them by email and LinkedIn, and pick up the phone once you are ready
Keep our customer database up to date
Sit in on demos and learn how software gets sold

What you'll learn

How business-to-business sales works, step by step
CRM, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, lemlist and AI tools
Confidence talking to business owners

Good fit if you are curious and like talking to people, or want to get better at it. No cold calling on day one.

Content

Trainee Content & Marketing Executive

You work with Jayden, our founder, and alongside the sales team.

What you'll do

Film and edit short videos for LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts
Help make our Innsights interview series with hospitality operators
Write blog posts, newsletters and web pages
Report on what performed and what to change

What you'll learn

Canva, CapCut, our website CMS, email tools and AI tools
How to write for a public audience
How to read the numbers behind content

Good fit if you already make videos or posts for yourself, however informally, or have an eye for what makes people stop scrolling.

What you leave with

Six months of real experience at a tech company, and a reference

A track record for your CV: demos booked, campaigns run, content published

Hands-on skills in the tools employers look for

Help with your CV, LinkedIn and interview prep before you finish

We will be honest with you: a permanent job at the end is not guaranteed. It is possible, and either way you leave with more than you came with.

Our last placement joined with no industry experience. Six months later he landed his dream job. We wanted to keep him. That is the result we want for you too.

Jayden Patel, founder

The details

Hours

25 a week, Monday to Thursday, 9:30am to 4:15pm. Fridays off.

Where

Our office in Spinningfields, Manchester, with some home working once you are settled in.

Pay

National Minimum Wage for your age, paid monthly. A laptop is provided.

Interview

Informal. A coffee and a look around the office, not a panel.

Who can apply

These placements are offered through the Growth Company's Jobs Guarantee for people aged 18 to 24 living in Greater Manchester and claiming Universal Credit. Your Growth Company adviser confirms eligibility. Not sure? Fill in the form anyway and we will point you in the right direction.

Interested? Takes a minute.

Leave your details and we will get back to you within two working days.

Thanks. We have your details and will be in touch within two working days. If you met us at the Future Talent Day, come and say hello at the table.

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Prefer email? jayden@aquaint.co.uk