Marketing Specialist

Location

Sandwich, Kent | United Kingdom

Job description

Marketing Specialist

Are you a hungry and ambitious marketing professional, who is able to provide an explosion of ideas and opportunities?!

We are working with a young, dynamic, and fast-growing company in the food sector - based in the Sandwich area - who are looking for a Marketing Specialist to join their small local team. This is a full-time, permanent position, working 8am to 5pm with an hour for lunch, and comes with a competitive salary of £32,000 to £37,000 (dependent upon experience) and is topped up by an extremely generous car allowance. Make no mistake, in this role you will gain huge rewards for your efforts and hard work! Benefits include car allowance, pension, critical illness cover, death in service cover and 23 days holiday, plus bank holidays.

The ideal candidate will provide an injection of creativity and be a practical person who can design attractive and innovative prototype packaging as part of the role - someone who enjoys a challenge and can work to tight deadlines. This is a fast-paced role and requires you to be proactive in coming up with new designs and concepts. You will liaise with the marketing team at Head Office, as well as the global team, and have the opportunity to bounce ideas around.

You must be able to use Adobe Creative Suite (including Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Wordpress and Canva) and translate your art and design concepts into books, adverts, 3D packaging, as well as being responsible for photos for magazines. Website experience is an absolute bonus.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in a previous marketing role and be able to fulfil the following summary of duties:

• Digital marketing - creating and commissioning social media content, creating and maintaining a consumer facing website
• Supporting set up of local showroom - design and refit project management
• Managing showroom display and customer showroom experience
• Following the marketing closely to identify new trends and gaps
• Preparing packaged display packs - replicating customer packs and also developing new innovative packaging concepts to inspire customers
• Delivering inspirational product images
• Commissioning chefs for inspirational product usage - photography / recipe videos
• Organising customer samples - inspirational presentation
• Managing the marketing budget in close coordination with Marketing Director
• Supporting global marketing and working closely with Marketing Director

Interested, and feel you tick all the boxes? Please get in touch now as my client needs someone asap!

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Salary

£32k - £37k per annum