Supporting the marketing team, you’ll be at the heart of driving marketing campaigns for a product or service. An important cog in the marketing wheel, you'll be expected to be involved at all levels, including drafting press releases, creating online content and organising promotional events. You will predominantly be office based but some of your daily activities will require you to be out of the office attending meetings, visiting events/functions or organising promotions.

This job is full of variety and you’ll need to be able to turn your hand to a multitude of tasks. A marketing assistant's regular to do list includes:

• Writing and distributing press releases.
• Writing content/news for social media/web/email distribution.
• Arranging promotional events.
• Helping to drive online traffic with web-related campaigns.
• Writing, distributing and analysing customer surveys.
• Assisting with customer experience insights and market research.
• Writing and maintaining accuracy of online and printed marketing content.
• Raising purchase orders.
• Liaise with Marketing Agency to help produce and develop campaigns and promotions.
• Assist with internal communications with product and campaign launches.
• Managing and growing digital marketing presence.
• Supporting the marketing team with developing annual marketing strategies.

Candidates will need to show the following characteristics:

• Good organisational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Are a strong team player
• Commercial awareness
• Can work under pressure to tight deadlines
• Numerical skills
• IT skills
• Adaptability
• Creativity
• Strong copywriting skills and experience in writing press releases.
• One or more years’ experience in writing content for online or print distribution.
• Very experienced in using Word and Excel in a professional environment.
• Solid knowledge on how to use social media to market products or services (predominantly twitter, facebook and LinkedIn).
• Some knowledge of using Cloud based systems and CMS (Drupal, Survey Monkey, Salesforce).
• Knowledge on how to use Google Analytics to run reports.
• Some experience in one or more of the following would be beneficial. InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML & CSS.

Education

At least 9 A*- C GCSE’s (B in English or above)
Educated to A level standard