Marketing Assistant

£24k - £28k (experience dependant)

Alderley Edge and/or Manchester (4 days in the office and 1 remote)

Forward Role are working with a property business made up of 4 distinctive lifestyle brands that operate in over 10 cities in over 20 locations housing residents from all over the world. They have world leading student accommodation and sector defining concepts for urban living and the rental market.

Their nurturing environment encourages colleagues to develop, perform and excel at what they do and provide plenty of opportunities for career progression.

Designed to exceed the expectations of professionals living in the city, this business leads the way in urban living. High-end furnishings, best-in-class amenity spaces including private dining rooms, co-working spaces, lounges, terraces and state of the art gyms, extend the home to create the perfect environment for residents to thrive.

This newly created Marketing Assistant role is an opportunity to join them in their mission to redefine tomorrow’s urban living at an exciting time for the business. You’ll be an integral part of a small growing marketing team with a fantastic opportunity to develop your career.

This role will work in support of both the Community & Brand Manager and the Senior Digital Marketing Executive. Together with the small but mighty marketing team, you will play a key role in ensuring that customers wanting to rent premium accommodation in the city, consider and fall in love with this accommodation and stay in love when they move in. You’ll work with the marketing team to engage with their customers and communities with the right message at the right time.

Responsible for all email campaigns to drive customer acquisition and retention. You’ll help create content and will be responsible for deploying campaigns to plan through their ESP, reporting on results. You’ll passionately understand their audience and want to add value to their customers’ experience.

As well as delivering on your own objectives you’ll collaborate with various teams across the business to support and help achieve common goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set up, deployment and measurements of email campaigns
• Support with comms planning for key customer journeys both existing and new
• Work with the Senior Digital Marketing Executive to add value from enquires and existing database to generate leads into the business.
• Work with the Community & Brand Manager to help execute their community comms plan through email as well as content creation, social media scheduling and event support.
• Supporting the Head of Marketing – Residential with ad hoc marketing activity and department admin

About You:

You’ll be a passionate marketeer working either client or agency side looking for a new opportunity that will give you lots of room to grow.

• Essential that you can demonstrate email marketing experience
• You’re able to measure email campaigns and report on activity
• Experience in scheduling social media content
• A confident multi-tasker who is comfortable managing conflicting priorities
• Confident in writing on brand content and contributing to team ideation
• Happy to ask for help and enjoy helping others
• Passionate about your craft and self-learning
• A real team player who’s naturally good at communicating
• Desirable (not essential):
• Working knowledge of Mailchimp
• Experience using CRM databases (preferably Salesforce)

Benefits:

• 22 days holiday per year rising to 25 plus Christmas Shutdown
• Complimentary breakfast and lunch every day in their onsite restaurant
• Flexible working - start times between 8am - 10am
• A Perkbox account – giving you instant 24/7 access to more than 250 perks, including free drinks, cinema tickets, shopping discounts, employee assistance program, fitness classes, learning courses and much more
• Onsite parking

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