Marketing Assistant

The Openwork Partnership; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector is seeking a Marketing Assistant to support its marketing team. This hybrid role involves managing content, executing marketing campaigns, and requires experience with marketing systems like Dot Digital. With a focus on proactive problem-solving and excellent organizational skills, this position offers a competitive salary and benefits in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Bonus scheme

Pension scheme

Critical illness cover

Income protection

Death in service

27 days holiday + bank holidays

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Experience with marketing systems like Dot Digital and CMS.
• Strong data analysis skills and email marketing expertise.
• Excellent planning and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage content on Adviser accessible systems.
• Support creation and approval of adviser-facing content.
• Plan and execute weekly proposition emails.

Skills

Data analysis

Email marketing expertise

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Proactive mindset

Tools

Dot Digital

Excel

PowerPoint

CMS

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Marketing Assistant to support the delivery of propositions to our Adviser firms and their clients, this is a busy and varied role so you will need to have a proactive, self-motivated and organised approach.

This is an important operational role within the marketing team and the role holder will need marketing systems experience, such as Data Asset Management tools, Dot Digital and CMS, creative thinking to find solutions to problems and issues.

This role will support the day-to-day delivery of product communications, BAU activities and marketing campaigns to advisers, clients and relevant.

This is a 6-month fixed term contract, hybrid role with the requirement to be in our Swindon office 2 days a week.

The benefits

• Salary - up to £30,000
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 7.5%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection - 1x salary
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing and maintaining the content on our Adviser accessible systems for multiple proposition areas.
• Supporting the creation, maintenance and approval process for all adviser and client facing content.
• Ensure that all material is created and deployed across the full adviser network: Openwork, OWL, 2plan where applicable.
• Be the link between the proposition and communications team, ensuring that adviser communications are booked in and created in time for delivery.
• Carry out activities that support BAU and provide MI to internal stakeholders and providers that details engagement and activity and looks to identify methods and messages that could be done differently.
• Support in the creation of social media messaging.
• Ensure that all content is uploaded and maintained on Openwork operating systems and portals
• Processes for day-to-day working are used and proactively improved for areas such as: Briefing, job bags, budget tracking, system updates, portals etc.
• Pick up any ad hoc tasks as requested by Manager or wider management team.
• Supporting the communication of campaigns to the adviser network through email and accessible systems.
• The planning and execution of weekly proposition emails using Dot Digital.
• Collation of MI that monitor the success of our weekly emails, campaign emails and DAM for campaigns.

What will you need to succeed?

• Proactive mindset with the ability to adapt to a dynamic environment.
• Excellent practical knowledge of Dot Digital, Excel, PowerPoint, CMS, Digital design would be beneficial.
• Email marketing expertise - creating and sending digital marketing emails through systems such as Dot Digital/ Mail Chimp/ Campaign Monitor etc.
• Excellent data analysis skills.
• Strong literacy and numeracy skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills for effective stakeholder management.
• A delivery focus that operates across a variety of activities.
• Ability to multi-task, manage and prioritise different tasks, multiple stakeholders, timescales and goals.
• Excellent team player.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Positive, self-motivated individual capable of working autonomously, with a strong “can do” attitude.
• Proven track record for delivery to deadline.

Why us?

We're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.

We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.