Marketing Press Assistant

About the role

**Location**: The Pig Hotel, Brockenhurst Beaulieu Road, Brockenhurst

**Hours**: Full Time, £23,000 PA

**Marketing and Press Assistant - Home Grown Hotels**

**Location**:Home Grown Hotels, Head Office, Lyndhurst, Hampshire, SO43 7DD.

**Travel**:Applicants must hold a full driving licence. Occasional travel between our hotels is required.

**Salary**:£23,000 PA***

**Hours**:40 hours per week, including occasional work from home.***

Home Grown Hotels is the owner and operator of The Pig group of hotels. Multi-Award-winning hotels with locations currently in Hampshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Kent, Cornwall & Sussex. We class ourselves as restaurants with rooms, our Kitchen Gardens are at the heart of what we do. What we can’t grow or rear ourselves, we source from the local area. This is the foundation of our 25-mile menu.

This new role will provide administrative support to the Marketing Department and to assist in carrying out the agreed marketing and press strategy.

Reporting to our Director of Marketing and closely supporting Home Grown Hotels Publicist, we are seeking a highly organised, enthusiastic, creative, and engaged individual looking to gain experience within marketing and communications. This role will play a key role within our small team providing support the day-to-day running of the Marketing Department.

With expansion in the pipeline, the role will centrally support marketing for all PIG properties and the Smoked & Uncut festivals, across a broad range of projects as well as wider brand campaigns, collaborations, brand events and partnerships, and new hotel openings.

**Responsibilities include but not limited to**:
**Marketing Strategy**
- Providing administrative support to the Marketing Department across a broad range of projects, including maintaining the marketing department’s documentation, image libraries and databases.
- Supporting the Marketing Department’s execution of the agreed overall marketing strategy and company objectives for all brands to maximise revenue generation and brand equity, providing support to the Director of Marketing, Publicist and Digital Marketing Manager across all areas of the marketing mix.
- Carrying out research projects and competitor analysis as required and presenting results.
- Offering extra support for group marketing/partner marketing events as required - including Smoked & Uncut.
- Coordinating and writing content for websites, blogs, and press releases.
- Responsible for managing day-to-day relationship with destination partners
- Coordinating the creation and production of all internal and external marketing literature and collateral - including print/digital and adverts - and working with third party agencies to produce.
- Support key internal events/brand partner events on producing required marketing collateral.

**Press**
- Work very closely with Publicist, to keep them informed of all news/updates/changes/stories from hotels and share ahead of time any planned brand comms.
- Assisting publicist with image distribution and press requests
- Work with Marketing Director and Publicist to collate and write award entries when required.
- Maintaining and updating public press image galleries.
- Keeping all press documentation online and offline up to date.
- _**Skills and Experience**
- We are ideally seeking for someone special has top notch communication skills both in person and on paper. The willingness to get stuck into whatever project crops up and enjoy working collaboratively is essential.
- You will have excellent organisational and time management skills
- A flair for creativity and thinking outside the box
- Flexible, upbeat, and reliable, with a positive and proactive attitude and enjoy working closely within a small team
- Previous experience in a communications role is advantageous but not necessary

We are dedicated to making THE PIGs an inspiring, exciting, and fun place to work and in return for your hard work you can expect something a little different:

- Numerous retail discounts via our Perkbox Scheme.
- Discounted room rates and complimentary staff stays across our group.
- Discounted food, beverage, and spa days across our group.
- Paid annual leave
- We are committed to providing craft and accredited training to all staff.
- Meals on duty, including Head Office.
- On-site staff parking
- We are proud to have grown our group throughout the recent difficulties faced within our industry. With new openings upon the horizon, it’s a wonderful time to join us for a sustainable future.