Marketing Executive

**About the Role**

**Are you a driven, collaborative Marketing Executive? Have a talent for understanding and marketing unique selling points? or eager to showcase your Marketing skills within a leading name in holiday industry...**

Forge Holiday Group, have the exciting opportunity for our newest Marketing Executive to provide crucial marketing support within our Regional Marketing Team, over a 12 month maternity cover.

**In return for your hard-work, we can ensure you join a vibrant, inclusive work culture and make the most of fantastic career progression opportunities alongside some impressive company benefits**
- Paying a salary up to £25,000 per annum working / 37.5 hours per week / Monday-Friday, 9am-5.30pm
- Plus access to our annual STIP (annual company-wide bonus) scheme with an additional 10% of your salary
- 33 days annual leave including bank holidays
- Plus an additional day off for your Birthday
- Plus an additional two volunteering days per year
- A flexible hybrid-working policy, with a min three days a week from our Menai Holiday Cottages office
- An enhanced maternity and paternity policy
- Inclusive and supportive work environment
- Employee discounts and benefits with your wellbeing at the centre
- Opportunities for career progression, personal development and opportunities to be recognised
- Comprehensive training and development programs to set you up for success
- Study support for additional qualifications, courses and accreditations
- Numerous dedicated wellbeing initiatives and access to 24/7 mental health support

**Our newest Marketing Executive will work across Bangor, North Wales, and will include occasional travel to additional Regional Brands in Wales and across the UK.**

You will work closely with the Regional Marketing Team, operational Brand Team, and wider head office Marketing Team to implement relevant, on-brand marketing campaigns.

Collaborating with the Property Recruitment teams, our newest addition will offer the highest level of service and product for our potential new owners as well as ensuring a high level of conversion from lead to contract.

**Please note: The post holder must be based in Bangor, working on a hybrid basis working from our Menai Holiday Cottages brand offices (Bangor) a minimum of three days a week.**

**This is the perfect opportunity for those with an interest in marketing to join our vibrant team and gain valuable experience from our talented regional team as part of a wider business-critical department**

**Your Responsibilities**

Joining a diverse, energetic Regional Marketing Team, your responsibility will be to:

- Implement day-to-day online and offline marketing activity and campaigns within our regional brands, in line with business objectives and targets.
- Deliver engaging campaigns through content marketing, copywriting, print, multi-media, digital, social media, direct marketing, promotional marketing, project and supplier management, and marketing planning.
- Drive traffic to our brand websites, through holidaymaker and property owner blog content.
- Build external links to our websites through outreach campaigns.
- Organise, set up and attend a number of events and trade shows each year, representing each of our brands.
- Work as part of the regional marketing team to generate new ideas for driving owner leads for each brand, to grow our portfolio or properties.
- Ability to build and manage relationships with third parties (owners, land agents, estate agents and developers).
- Support with design and content creation for marketing literature such as owner guides, brochures, mailers, offline advertising and events assets.
- Performance reporting for all marketing campaigns, using internal reporting software, Google Analytics and other reporting tools.
- Monitor and report on competitor activity.

**Skills and Qualifications**

We are looking for those who can share in our company goals, values and ethos, who can grow alongside us and whose skills can aid our ongoing success

By _Being One Team, Owning it, Communicating Honestl_y and showcasing a devotion to _Learning, Growing and Innovating_, we remain true to our original ethos and ensure we stay true to our Customers, Owners and Colleagues alike.

**First and foremost we are interested in those who have the potential to hold these values, as for this position, we ask you to have the following key skills**:

- Experience of working as part of a marketing team.
- Outstanding communication skills - both written and verbal
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent negotiation skills with a commercial mindset
- Able to build, manage and maintain strong relationships
- IT literate and able to learn new skills
- Ability to understand and Market the Unique Selling Point of individual Brands.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Full Driving License and access to a car.

**Although standouts will also have**:

- Conflict resolution experience/training
- Good location know