Employer: Diamond Search Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £22,000 – £325,000 per annum
Date Added: 18/02/2024
Diamond Search Recruitment are delighted to be representing our client, a global business and brand leader. Our client offer exciting career opportunities and a fantastic company culture.
Recruiting for a Marketing Assistant, this position is available immediately. The ideal candidate must be local to, or willing to commute to the Gillingham office, 3 days per week, with 2 days work from home, so preferably Kent based.
This role offers:
- Salary: £22k-£25k (dependant on experience) + 10% annual bonus dependant on meeting objectives.
- Other benefits:
- Life Assurance
- Company Contributed Pension Scheme
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Business Travel & Emergency Cover
- MyLife company benefits platform including Cycle to work scheme and subsidised gym membership.
- 25 days holiday, pro rata, plus bank holidays
- Free company car park
- On-site canteen
A large proportion of the role is data and system heavy (such as promotional data entry onto the ERP and spreadsheets, manipulation with pivot tables, v-lookups, filtering and sorting, reporting and analysis of post campaign results), and the other is the creative side of managing the web advert creation process from liaising with suppliers to briefing the design studio, through to loading the final adverts onto the website, and working on journal adverts.
The right candidate must be able to multi-task, have a keen eye for detail and accuracy and a creative flair plus intermediate or advanced excel.
Duties Include:
- Handle the internal processes and systems including uploading data and promotions to the sales system.
- Liaise with the marketing teams to establish which promotions are current and upload to the sales system.
- Prepare marketing reports as required, including ROI on campaigns and promotional activity and supplier sales and manipulate sales data to analyse marketing activity and highlight the findings.
- Prepare, raise, and send invoices to suppliers.
- Keep the marketing database up to date, ensuring all records are complete and accurate.
- Maintain the Rewards loyalty programme promotions information.
- Raising purchase orders.
- Manage the administration of the advertising programme for the team, ensuring no deadlines are missed, keeping the schedule up-to-date and negotiating with suppliers to secure best pricing.
- Managing the briefing of Journal adverts.
- Undertake day-to-day administration in support of the marketing team (e.g. filing, photocopying, mailing etc.).
- Opportunity to progress and work with creative to produce marketing flyers and collateral for the sales team and various invitations etc.
- Creating and loading adverts to the website.
- Perform maintenance of various websites to ensure information is always up to date.
- Manage sales leads via CRM.
The Ideal Candidate:
To succeed in this role, you will need the following:
Essential:
o Excellent attention to detail.
o Experience of data interpretation, manipulation and interrogation and Microsoft Excel intermediate to advanced level: Sort, Filter, Basic formulas, margins, pivot tables & v-look ups.
o Strong communication skills.
o Strong multi-tasking skills and ability to juggle multiple deadlines.
o Organisational and prioritising ability.
o Excellent written and verbal communication. Fluent in both written and spoken English – examples will be expected at first/second interview.
o Creative flair
o Analytical and commercial skills and acumen.
o Marketing or sales experience.
Useful:
o QlikView
o Salesforce/CRM
o Experience of an ERP (Enterprise resource planning) software system, such as JD
Edwards or SAP would be helpful.
Education & Qualifications:
Preferably educated to degree level but CIM or other marketing or business qualifications would be acceptable.
What are you waiting for? To find out more, apply today! Diamond Search Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency regarding this vacancy.
Application Deadline: 31/03/2024
Contract Type: Permanent
Submitted Applications: 0