Marketing Assistant

Location: Bournemouth

Salary: £ doe + annual performance bonus

Benefits: Birthday off paid, Xmas shut down extra holiday, Simply Health plan, staff socials

Hours: 9am-5pm Mon-Fri office based

Aspire Jobs are delighted to be working in partnership with our award-winning client, who are a nationally recognised firm with offices in central Bournemouth.

Our client is a regional professional services firm who have modern offices and great benefits, this is a perfect time to join a growing and progressively thinking team and firm where you can really make your career.

This Marketing Assistant role will see you supporting the Marketing Manager and the wider operations team.

You will be highly organised and will love working in a busy, agile environment.

This is a brilliant role for someone who wants to work at the heart of the operations team within a professional services business.

The successful Marketing Assistant will: -

• Have previous marketing experience (this would suit someone looking for their 2nd or 3rd job in Marketing)
• Ideally your experience will be from within a marketing agency or a similar in-house role within a professional services environment, such as Accountants, Solicitors, Building Surveyors, Insurance etc rather than from a retail or consumer brand
• You will have strong digital marketing experience and an understanding of website editing, content writing, and managing social media channels
• You will have Adobe and/or Canva knowledge with some basic design and editing skills
• Experience of CRM would also be useful

Job Description

From a marketing perspective their focus is on evolving their brand to ensure it uniquely represents the firm they are today and building awareness and advocacy through showcasing their brilliant people, their expertise and experience.

Their number one business development priority is ensuring we have Company clients, rather than clients who have particularly strong relationships with just one particular individual within the firm.

Reporting into the Marketing Manager, areas of responsibility coming into the Marketing Assistant’s remit will include:

Brand, media and communications:

• Coordinating / proofing copy and sourcing images and photographs (or booking photographers) for communications / PR purposes, with a particular focus on showcasing the brilliant people within the firm and their expertise. There will be content writing opportunities.
• Ensuring compliance with their brand guidelines, making sure their brand image and tone of voice are consistently applied across all internal and external channels.
• Using Adobe and Canva to design and edit day-to-day marketing materials. They will use an external designer or other third party as required for complicated design materials.
• Uploading and delivering the digital content and events planner. Including editing the website and supporting delivery of their regular digital newsletter, updating social media accounts and on-line communities.

New business development

• Monitoring and tracking cross-referral and new business opportunities.

Event management

• Helping to organise small scale events and, where relevant, attending these events.
• Coordinating team attendance at events, collating feedback and keeping their contact database updated.