Graduate Opportunity

Hemingways is looking for a recent Business or Marketing Degree Graduate to join us, the Ward Hadaway 26th fastest growing business in Yorkshire. You would be initially placed within the Confectionery team, working alongside the Marketing and Sales Director, and forming a direct relationship with Mondelez, our Confectionery supplier. Then moving to our Retail/E-commerce team where you will work with many of the very biggest retail brands to deliver best-in-class solutions for their pre-paid activities. Following structured time in each team you will have the opportunity to explore other areas of our exciting business, such as Operations, Finance, HR, Sales or IT. All through the programme, you will be supporting on lots of different types of assignments, so you’ll need excellent written and verbal skills, good analytical skills, and the ability to organise your own workload in a busy environment.

**We’re looking for**:
A hard-working, multi-tasking, super-organised, confident person with good analytic and numeracy skills; great inter-personal skills and a ‘can-do’ positive attitude. You should be commercially minded, and have an Interest in e-commerce, digital promotion; retail and working with over 120 brands including John Lewis, Ikea and Selfridges. Enthusiasm, creativity, and a sense of fun are other looked-for characteristics.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:
This is a wide
- reaching role with a range of vital responsibilities to ensure the infrastructure supports new and existing products, to meet customer needs.
- Undertake daily administrative tasks to ensure the functionality and coordination of each department’s activities
- Routine SEO and content amends to company websites including compose online content on the company’s website and social media accounts
- Employ marketing analytics techniques to gather important data (social media, web analytics, rankings etc.)
- Update spreadsheets, databases, and inventories with statistical, financial and non-financial information
- Prepare and deliver, when necessary, promotional presentations
- Write marketing literature to augment the company’s presence in the market
- Communicate directly with clients and encourage trusting relationships

**Other Duties**:

- Provide support and adapt to the wider business when required.
- Assist with the training of new and temporary employees.
- Carry out other reasonable duties as required by the employer.

**Qualifications**

Essential

Desirable

Degree, 2:2 or higher in Marketing, Business or relevant field is a strong advantage.

YES

**Relevant Experience**

Essential

Desirable

Excellent knowledge of MS Office

YES

Competency with other marketing tools (CRM tools, online analytics, Google AdWords etc) is an advantage, as is competency with graphic and presentation software

YES

Good knowledge of databases and data handling
- techniques

YES

Experience of working within a production environment

YES