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Marketing Assistant

Company Description

One of the UK’s most popular shopping comparison sites with over 1.4 million unique visitors per month is looking for a Marketing Assistant. It is part of a group of companies specialising in different areas of online marketing. The team is around 12 strong and prides itself on its down-to-earth, energetic and sociable environment and offers opportunities to develop across the business locally and internationally.

Internship Description

In this placement you’ll get the opportunity to work in a varied and hands-on consumer marketing role with a focus on social media, promotions, online content management and email marketing.

Your responsibilities will include: -

•Managing daily social media activity primarily on Facebook and Twitter including content sourcing, copy-writing, customer interaction, identifying key influencers and seeking opportunities to grow our social audience.

•Managing the ongoing promotions calendar and interactive Facebook apps, liaising with clients, legal team, creative and technical agencies.

•Writing content briefs, sourcing content, liaising with email marketing agency and project managing all eCRM activity including email marketing and data.

•Supporting the content manager by uploading and formatting pages of onsite content as required, this will require some basic html skills but training will also be given.

•Manage marketing admin (eg customer support, finance, legal) and support the Marketing Manager and Content Manager with any ad hoc projects (eg advertising, brand development, copy writing, market research etc).

The most suitable candidate for this position would have the following:-

•2:1 final grade in a marketing-related degree and preferably have some work experience in a B2C marketing role.

•Hard-working, driven and commitment to going the extra mile to deliver great quality work.

•Well-organised as you’ll be juggling several projects at once so you’ll need to have a methodical approach to project management and some proven techniques for staying on top of your task list.

•Creative, a good eye for design and lots of fresh ideas to improve the way we do things.

•Detail-focused and a hawk eye for typos and small details.

•Passionate about the internet and a regular online shopper and user of social media, forums, blogs.

•Passionate about marketing, enthusiastic and hungry to learn and develop a career in marketing

•Tech savvy with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint are essential and some basic html web development skills would also be beneficial.