Marketing Assistant

**The Role**
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a creative, organised and passionate Marketing Assistant to join our high performing team of marketing professionals in a fast-paced and fast-growing leisure - entertainment company.

**Reports to**: Marketing and Business Development Manager

**Experience**: 1-2 years

This role is ideal for a marketing graduate or someone with limited experience to join a growing marketing department and develop their career.

**Key Responsibilities**

Support the Marketing team, Marketing and Business Development Manager and the centres with the planning and implementation of all marketing campaigns through a wide range of tasks covering the full marketing and communication spectrum.

You will need to demonstrate initiative and acceptance of accountability, tracking and reporting on results will be crucial. You will also need to be very organised and thorough in your work, in order to complete multiple and diverse tasks.

Some of your responsibilities are listed below, but your job will evolve in line with the projects we have, your skills and willingness to progress.
- **Design, Printing and production**: you will be creating simple designs that are needed regularly, liaise with our design and production partners to produce various marketing materials and follow up with all parties involved to ensure the centres have the necessary support for their activity.
- **Operational/admin**: you will be a key person responsible for reporting, maintaining various databases, marketing research, data mining, etc and creating valuable tools to be used by the marketing team in the day to day activity as well as to help making strategic decisions.
- **Social partners, listings and influencers**: you will be responsible with managing all our outside partnerships with various parties by following up on the terms of our partnerships, building our network, following up on results.

**Support**: if all of the above has kept your interest in the position, know that you will not be left alone in all this. You will be part of a professional dynamic and highly motivated team and supported in your activity by your direct manager and your colleagues. You will also be required to offer support within your scope to centre managers, company directors and your direct manager. You will have the opportunity to work with creative and specialised agencies to develop and run campaigns. Your activity you will be in line with the brand identity and the overall marketing strategy. You will receive training, attend regular marketing meetings and have continuous support and communication with your direct manager.

**What you need to succeed**:
In order to successfully perform in your role, you will need to be very organised, very thorough and exigent with the results of your own work. You will have to demonstrate the capacity to understand the business and its goals and integrate your activity with the specifics of the business.

The following are the competencies which are desired or required for this role and will be assessed during the Recruitment Process:
**Required**:

- Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related discipline
- Sound knowledge of the main digital marketing tools as well as MSOffice tools (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
- Fluent in English. Excellent proof reading and copywriting skills.
- An ability to effectively manage and prioritise multiple tasks under tight deadlines, working within the team and on your own initiative.
- Working well under pressure goes hand in hand with the strong planning and organizing skills, and being methodical and process driven.
- Full drivers’ licence with access to own vehicle
- “can do” attitude

**Desired**:

- 1-2 years of experience in a similar role is a plus, but not obligatory.
- Content creation experience, mainly video content i.e. Reels & TikTok is a plus, but not obligatory.
- Experience in managing Social Media channels, in content management, excellent copywriting skills and ability to deliver creative content (text, image and video)
- A passion for marketing, the capacity to think outside the box and, therefore, a creative mind.
- Graphic design skills.
- Tech savvy.
- Having a good attitude and valuing a job well done is a valued quality. We appreciate someone who wants to learn and grow.
- Being a team player is very important in our work.
- Please note, this role is office based., though some occasional travel within NI and ROI, mainly to visit the centres. may be required. The hours of work are Monday to Friday 9am-5.30pm (with 30 min break). This role could involve some occasional evening or weekend work for special events and promotions throughout the year. _
- Salary dependent on experience._

Application process:
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £24,000.00-£26,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Why did you choose marketing as your career?
- What experience do you have in a simi