Digital & AI Graduate Scheme

Bamford Collection; Moreton-in-Marsh; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bamford Collection is offering a unique 12-month Graduate Scheme at its Daylesford location. This program focuses on leveraging digital and AI capabilities to enhance customer experiences, preparing graduates to contribute to the transformation of a values-led British brand amidst the beauty of the Cotswolds.

Benefits

Discounts on products and dining

Paid volunteering day per year

Subsidised private medical insurance

Pension scheme contributions

Life assurance cover

24-hour mental health support

Qualifications

• Recent graduates with relevant digital/AI degree.
• Experience building or nurturing online communities or products is ideal.
• Creative and comfortable with both ideas and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Craft personalized shopping experiences using AI.
• Enhance digital customer experiences with intelligence.
• Prototype new experiences for global customers.

Skills

Digital fluency

Creativity

Data analysis

Education

Relevant Digital/AI related degree

Tools

ChatGPT

Midjourney

Shopify AI

Klaviyo

Job description

THE BAMFORD COLLECTION IS A GROUPOF CONSCIOUSLY MINDED LIFESTYLE BRANDS COMMITTED TO NOURISHINGAND NURTURING PEOPLE AND PLANET.

Digital & AI Graduate Scheme
For Creators, Coders, Thinkers & Doers
Based at Daylesford, Gloucestershire

A Rare and Considered Opportunity

The Bamford Collection represents a cultivated way of living — one that honours nature, craftsmanship, wellness, and enduring style. From our organic farm and spas to our ateliers and evolving digital presence, we believe in doing things with grace, purpose, and attention to detail.

We are offering a paid Graduate Scheme to digitally fluent individuals who are curious, creative, and motivated by the intersection of heritage and innovation. This is an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to a modern British brand grounded in values and inspired by the future.

Strategic Objectives

As part of our broader transformation, this programme is aligned to key strategic priorities:

• Initiate an AI-led evolution across the business
• Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks in product, supply chain, sustainability, and service
• Prototype new experiences for a discerning global customer — digital, in-person, and hybrid
• Activate sponsorship and community platforms in line with our long-term impact vision
• Enhance internal agility, embedding start-up pace and collaborative decision-making into a heritage-rooted group

The role

This is a hands-on role, offering practical experience and creative influence. Graduates will work alongside our brand and innovation teams on projects that may include:

• Crafting personalised shopping journeys using AI
  
• Enriching the digital customer experience with warmth and intelligence
  
• Applying data with subtlety — to serve, not surveil
  
• Translating the calm, sensory character of our physical spaces into digital touchpoints
  
• Exploring emerging tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Midjourney, Shopify AI, Klaviyo) with purpose
  
• Shaping the voice, rhythm, and presence of our brand across platform

Structure

This is a 12-month, full-time programme with a thoughtfully designed format:

• Six successful candidates will rotate through key verticals:
  – Supply Chain
  – Digital Experience
  – Community Engagement
  – Events & Partnerships

• Each Graduate will be embedded in a central innovation team and deployed on high-impact internal missions
• Sponsored by senior leadership and mentored by subject-matter experts
• The programme will culminate in a capstone review to present outcomes, insights, and recommendations

About you

We’re looking for individuals who are:

• Digitally native and instinctively creative
• At ease with both ideas and implementation
• Sensitive to tone, aesthetics, and brand nuance
• Have recently Graduated with a relevant Digital/AI related degree
• Ideally, you’ve built or nurtured something online — a community, product, project or brand

What we offer

• A paid placement at Daylesford in the heart of the Cotswolds — surrounded by beauty, purpose, and calm
• Mentorship from brand, digital, and innovation leads
• The opportunity to help shape the future of a values-led British company
• The satisfaction of contributing to work that is thoughtful, refined, and genuinely future-facing

Perks and Benefits

• Discounts: We offer a range of discounts on our products, treatments, and diningexperiences from day 1.
• Volunteering Days: Employees are offered one paid day per year to volunteer with acharity of their choice.
• Private Medical: We offer subsidised private medical insurance through Bupa.
• Pension Scheme: Pay up to 9% of your salary into your pension each month; wecontribute up to 4.5%.
• Life Assurance: We offer life assurance cover, equivalent of up to a year of your annual salary.
• Mental Health Support: Our Employee Assistance Programme provides 24-hour support, seven days a week.