Graduate Marketing Assistant

This is an exciting opportunity for a confident, organised and driven Graduate Marketing Assistant to join a market leading logistics business based in Birmingham. This role will suit Graduates who are confident, outgoing achiever with a creative and flexible approach to work challenges and a desire to succeed within a close and committed team.

Job Title: Graduate Marketing Assistant
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands
Salary: £22,000 per annum

Working as the Marketing Assistant you will hold the following responsibilities;
*Support the email marketing campaigns to targeted audiences.
*Assist the senior marketing executives with direct mail campaign implementation and follow-up analysis.
*Maintain and develop the competitor and industry intelligence library.
*Co-ordinating and monitoring data protection issues.
*Collate and research information for newsletters, e-magazines, e-bulletins and other external communications including new channels of communications.
*Maintain public relations and brand photographic library.
*Assist with conference planning and other corporate events.
*Administer the hospitality programme.
*Compile and maintain press release/distribution list file for Press and PR.
*Assist with press release distribution.
*Provide telephone reception, office and administrative support to the marketing team.
*Co-ordinate all IT requests and office equipment breakdown liaison with service engineers.

The successful candidate will be educated to degree level in a Marketing related discipline with a minimum of a 2.1 classification and will have previous experience working to detailed briefs and be able to see a programme of work through from inception to completion. You will be an excellent problem solver will excellent interpersonal skills and a professional telephone manner

It is essential that the successful candidate has a passion for marketing and public relations disciplines and of their critical role in successfully delivering corporate strategy, good attention to detail and consistently maintain high standards and the ability to use your own initiative to take ownership of problems and think through the solutions to them

It is also essential that the successful candidate is highly numerate, literate and has good IT skills.

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