Marketing Assistant

Our design division are now looking for a confident, enthusiastic self-starter with excellent written skills and a creative mindset to join our business as a Marketing Assistant. Based in Newark, this is a great opportunity to build a career in marketing with a leading global professional services firm of over 5000 consultants and service providers.

This role would best suit a recent graduate, ideally with some relevant experience and a commitment to a long-term career in marketing with an adaptive, flexible, and organised approach.

This is an exciting place to be and the team works in a fast-paced environment and is often required to turn around content to tight deadlines. You will have access to all the necessary support to build a long-term career path within the marketing team of a great business.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate divisional marketing activities in line with brand and tone of voice guidelines
• Keep a record of divisional activity and liaise with central marketing team on upcoming plans
• Identify content opportunities for social media, website, company intranet and press releases including: project updates, significant wins, new hires and other key content that promotes design service offering
• Content development including: content research, copywriting, proof reading, sourcing imagery, managing approvals and organising publication
• Act as key point of contact and manage content contributions to support central marketing campaigns and bid activity
• Organise event presence and promotion including: graduate fairs, networking events, conferences and client entertainment initiatives
• Support the development of marketing materials including: client presentations, service line brochures and event materials
• Manage professional memberships and seek out appropriate publicity opportunities
• Work with technical leads to develop project case studies
• Support technical leads to develop and update CVs and LinkedIn profiles in line with best practice and company guidance
• Organise and coordinate professional project photography

About you:

• Enthusiastic self-starter who is keen to learn and develop within a global business
• A relevant degree (Marketing or related field) or equivalent work experience
• Proactive and highly organised
• Excellent copywriting skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• A strong communicator and confident to liaise with key stakeholders at all levels of seniority
• Strong time management and planning skills with the ability to multi-task
• Able to work independently and as part of a busy team
• Work on own initiative and not be afraid to make decisions
• Creative thinker
• Experience in developing content for social media channels
• Experience using MS Office applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint

What we offer you:

We will provide you with a flexible, friendly, and creative environment to develop your skills and challenge yourself. We support our people to innovate, collaborate and build meaningful careers. Our network of people and knowledge will expand your horizons and give you access to a variety of interesting projects.

Our employees are rewarded with competitive salaries, opportunities to invest and many other benefits including: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, Option to purchase up to 5 extra days per year, Company pension scheme, Share Incentive Scheme, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health Screening, Employee Assistance Programme, Professional Memberships and commitment to on-going CPD.

About RPS:

We define, design and manage projects that create shared value in a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world.

Connecting with our global expertise we make it easy for our clients to create winning solutions for their communities and their clients. By being confidently pragmatic we solve problems that matter. We make complex easy.

With expertise across a broad range of project types and scales, we guide projects as they move from initiation and scoping, to design and delivery. Our team offers integrated planning, design, technical and project management services to support developers to invest with confidence, streamline approvals and deliver projects that respect and enhance local communities.

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Mindful that a truly inclusive organization must make appropriate use of talent on a global basis and without unnecessary barriers, we are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion principles in all People processes in order to be as diverse as the communities and clients we work with, thereby securing, developing, and retaining the best available talent for the company’s future.

Our approach to Diversity and inclusion
Our people live our purpose, deliver our promise, and demonstrate our behaviours every day. Our behaviours define who we are. Developed by our people, they underpin everything that we do. They create the memorable experiences we are known for and make RPS a great place to do great work.

‘Stronger Together’ is one of our five core behaviours and it is inherent in creating an inclusive workplace:
‘We are respectful, acknowledge diversity, and recognise the potential and contribution of everyone. We bring out the best in one another, always assuming best intent. People who learn and grow thrive in our business, sharing in our success.’

Recruitment Agencies
We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted partners to assist us when required and do not acknowledge any speculative CVs or unsolicited candidate introductions from agencies not on this list. Please refer to the careers page on our website if you require any further information.