Vacancy: Graduate Marketing and Communications Assistant
Reference: GMA/LSB/PB/SNT/BSE/02/2023
Start Date: October 2023
Contract: Permanent
Hours of Work: Full Time (36.25 hours per week)
Reporting to: Head of Marketing
Location: Hybrid working between home and one of our UK offices: Lisburn (Northern Ireland), Peterborough, St Neots (Cambridgeshire), Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk)
At Xperience we deliver business efficiencies through Digital Transformation.
We put our clients at the heart of everything we do, helping them create better, faster processes, build stronger customer relationships, strengthen data security, accelerate profitability and position them for growth. That’s why we’ve got over 1,100 clients who are more efficient, more productive and more profitable just because they work with us. And it’s why 95% of our clients say they would recommend us. But really, it’s our people that make the difference at Xperience. They have the expertise and ambition to collaborate with our clients to guide them towards the optimum solution. Together as a team and through partnerships with world leaders in technology, we provide smart solutions that provide real digital transformation in businesses, including Cloud, ERP, CRM, Managed IT, and Cyber Security.
The Role – Starting October 2023
We are undergoing an exciting time in our evolution and now seek an ambitious Graduate Marketing and Communications Assistant to join an established Marketing Team in October 2023. The role presents an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about B2B marketing to kick-start their career within the IT/Professional Services Industry.
As a Marketing Team, we collaborate in providing the full marketing remit across digital, campaigns, events etc. to our sites in Lisburn, Peterborough, Bury St Edmunds, St Neots and Glasgow. In this role, you will support the smooth running of the department by providing creative, administrative, and logistical assistance, whilst having involvement in day-to-day Marketing activity in collaboration with other Marketing Team members.
Along with a clear talent for communication you will be a creative thinker who brings new ideas to the forefront and thrives working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You are passionate about delivering quality content that delivers tangible results back to the business. You will support the creation of engaging, fact-packed corporate content that promotes our products and services, to our clients, prospects, and service partners, and support in the delivery of these across a range of channels such as web, print, social media and email.
This role presents an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to work in close collaboration with and experienced Marketing Team and add real value, working with a range of stakeholders at all levels, supporting the business to execute upon our marketing strategy.
You will join a team that is committed to your development with the support to grow your skills and opportunity to get involved in the full remit of Marketing related activity, having your ideas heard and acted upon.
As we want to identify only the best talent to join our team, this role offers Hybrid working, and based from our offices in either Lisburn, Peterborough, St Neots or Bury St Edmunds.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide a professional Marketing support service to the business
- Support the wider Marketing Team in the creation of content for web and print:
o PR and News Announcements
o Thought Leadership Blogs and Whitepapers
o Customer Case Studies
o Sales Collateral
o Internal Communication Announcements
o Infographics
o Videos
o Podcasts
- Support the Marketing team to manage content within the website CMS including optimising for SEO purposes
- Support the coordination of email marketing campaigns using internal marketing automation tool
- Work closely with the wider Marketing Team on content to support campaign delivery
- Work with the wider Commercial Team to organise and attend corporate events including scheduling, brand collateral etc.
- Maintain the integrity of our brand and brand assets ensuring all materials used across the business are consistently utilized in adherence with brand guidelines
- Support the PR and Content Strategy in collaboration with the wider Marketing Team
- Supporting wider marketing and operations activity
Essential:
- A bachelor’s degree (ideally within a Marketing, PR/Journalism, Communications or a related discipline)
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
- Willingness to learn and develop with the ability to manage your own workload
- Proficiency in using Microsoft Office platforms
- A broad appreciation of technology and understanding of how organisations can be transformed through technology
- Ability to travel to NI/GB as required
- Ability to live and work in the UK (unfortunately we are unable to sponsor visas)
Desirable:
- 2:1 degree classification
- Previous workplace experience within marketing, communications, PR or journalism (including a university placement year)
- Experience in content creation eg. Blogs, podcasts, video etc.
- Experience of organising/supporting corporate events
- Experience with measuring and optimising the performance of content using tools such as Google Analytics
Xperience is an equal opportunities employer.
Recruitment Timeline
Application Closing Date: 5pm on Friday 10th March 2023
Online Assessment Centres will be held the week commencing 3rd April 2023
Xperience
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