Marketing Assistant

Marketing Assistant

East London

£26,000-£28,000

Full-Time Permanent

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday, increasing to 28 days after 3 years' service and 30 days after 5 years
• Birthday day off
• Bonus Scheme
• Career development programme
• Comprehensive training, supervision and support
• Cycle to work scheme and cycle storage
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Friends and Family discount on legal services
• Health Cashback Plan
• Length of service awards
• Staff forums and committees
• Wellbeing initiatives

Looking to pursue a marketing career in a corporate environment? This is a great opportunity to support the Marketing & Comms Manager in all aspects of marketing and business development activities.

This role provides a great opportunity to get hands-on experience and exposure in an agile firm where there is significant commercial potential with a focus on digital marketing.

An ideal role for a graduate with some marketing experience.

Key Responsibilities as Marketing Assistant:

External marketing campaigns:

• Carry out project work as agreed, to implement marketing campaigns as directed by the Marketing & Communications Manager.
• Assisting in delivering campaigns involving advertising, sponsorship, PR, exhibitions and community marketing initiatives.
• Perform market research as required.

Digital marketing:

• Managing day to day website updates working with agencies.
• Contributing to projects to improve the content and structure of the website.
• Working with others to manage the firm’s social media channels creating designs for posts, helping to procure engaging content and posting online to increase the profile of the firm.
• Helping to create quality, consistently branded email marketing communications.
• Involvement in video production and organising podcasts.

Internal Communications:

• Producing a bi-monthly staff newsletter, copywriting and collating copy internally, and briefing a design agency.
• Participating in the social committee and helping to organise staff social events.
• Liaising with HR to take ownership of the relevant elements of the starters and leavers process including introduction meetings, website profiles and headshots.
• Helping to deliver the firm’s social impact & sustainability initiatives.

Administration:

• Processing invoices, tracking marketing expenditure and reporting on variances versus budget.
• Assisting in preparing for meetings including setup, administration, note-taking and managing follow-up actions.
• Maintaining the marketing calendar and updating content plans for social media, blogs and the email marketing programme.
• Updating subscriptions and memberships.
• Undertaking an on-going competitor analysis and reporting on gaps and trends.
• Collating information to help compile award entries.
• Helping to facilitate research projects, including the Mystery shopper survey.

Events:

• Organising arrangements for awards dinners and helping to co-ordinate networking events.
• Assisting in organising hosted relationship events.

Key Requirements:

• BA / BSC (preferably business related) or an appropriate level of experience in a relevant field
• Up to year of marketing / business experience ideal either post degree or from an internship / integrated placement year.
• Basic understanding of business development and marketing practices and processes, digital marketing techniques and social media platforms.
• Creative design skills; Canva or Adobe Photoshop knowledge a bonus.
• A sense of aesthetics, a spark of creativity and a love for producing great copy.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with the confidence to interact with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• PC and IT literate in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.