Role: Marketing Assistant
Salary: £30,000 - £33,000 per annum + private health, life assurance, 25 days holiday & pension
Location: Commutable from Crawley, Horsham, East Grinstead, Redhill, Croydon, Brighton and surrounding areas
Company
A leading manufacturing company are looking for a Marketing Assistant to join their highly successful and growing company. The role reports into the Marketing Manager and the successful candidate will have previous experience in a Marketing role
The company have around 130 staff across UK, USA & Europe – 115 staff in UK. They are well established with a low staff turnover, mostly due to the fact they are a good company to work for with their open and transparent communication, offering careers rather than just jobs.
Responsibilities
- Help to always promote the company’s corporate profile and image.
- Assist with maintaining marketing activities which meet agreed company objectives.
- Carry out graphic design revision and updating work:
o Work with existing InDesign and Photoshop files.
o This could include re-drafting of advertisements (magazines, digital banners), brochures, exhibition stands, sponsorship graphics.
o Ensure that brand guidelines are adhered to, and messaging is tailored to the relevant product/audience.
o Creation of product and service documents and datasheets for internal and distributor use; including information-gathering from various internal departments.
o Liaising with internal personnel and distributors to gather foreign language translations.
o Build responsibility for own design work overtime.
- Assist with creation of self-service photo library for Sales team and distributors.
- Assist with reorganisation, updating and maintenance of company’s PowerPoint asset library.
- Management of sales model distribution ensuring the database is accurately maintained.
- Manage any shipments required for exhibition/conference marketing material liaising with the relevant internal department or freight forwarder.
- Search and preparation of press cuttings; disseminating information as applicable.
Requirements
- A strong communicator with a high standard of written English.
- A good eye for Graphic Design, with experience and competence in Photoshop and InDesign; matched with a desire and willingness to learn and develop design skills and body of work.
- Computer literate, including CRM database aptitude.
- A well organised and methodical multi-tasker with a meticulous eye for detail, being able to work and respond well under pressure.
- A motivated self-starter and determined progress-chaser, adept at driving projects forward.
- Degree qualified (preferably within a Marketing or English Language discipline).
- A brief portfolio of graphic design work
- Confident and adept with Microsoft PowerPoint and Word. Basic to Intermediate level Excel skills.
- Experience in execution of digital marketing campaigns, e.g. banner ads/e-mailshots.
- Experience and understanding of Google Analytics and AdWords/Bing/LinkedIn campaigns.
- Has worked with an e-mail marketing platform such as Mailchimp
- Has used YouTube and/or Vimeo (or similar) for business purposes.
- Experience within a website content management system
- Copywriting skills will be an advantage.
If this role sounds of interest, please apply now and send your most up to date CV to Jane at TechNichols Resourcing to be considered. Or call TechNichols Resourcing and speak with Jane for further information.
We will endeavour to get back to all applicants but if you have not heard back within 5 working days unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.