Marketing Assistant

Pitchup.com; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online travel company in the UK is seeking a Marketing Assistant to support marketing and communications efforts. The role focuses on email marketing, event coordination, and general marketing support. Ideal candidates have HTML skills, experience in marketing, and strong organizational abilities. This position offers a competitive salary of £35-38k, along with various employee benefits including 25 days holiday and private healthcare.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension matched to 4%

Private healthcare

Employee assistance helpline

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience of working in Marketing, ideally in a startup/scale-up environment.
• Proven track record of executing email marketing and events.
• Comfortable compiling and analysing data from various sources.

Responsibilities

• Design and code B2B and B2C email newsletters.
• Coordinate logistics for trade shows.
• Draft internal communications and schedule social media posts.

Skills

HTML coding skills

Event coordination

Copywriting

Analytical skills

Negotiation

Organizational skills

Self-starter

Time management

Fluency in another European language

Education

Educated to degree level or equivalent

Tools

Salesforce

Slack

Google Analytics

Figma

Photoshop

Job description

Overview

We are looking for….. We are looking for a Marketing Assistant to support our marketing and communications efforts. The role will focus on email marketing, events, internal communications, and research and admin support, with scope to contribute to other creative briefs. The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of the full marketing mix, a proven track record of executing email marketing, events programmes and research tasks, and be driven and self-motivated.

About the role

Email Marketing

• Design and code the B2B and B2C email newsletters (HTML)
• Add and check the segmented audiences
• Report on the success of all emails from engagement metrics to revenue generated
• Keep up to date with best practices and suggest improvements

Event Coordination

• Find the best trade shows to attend and organise everything needed for our stand
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless execution of events, including coordinating logistics and overseeing post-event evaluations
• Negotiate the best rates on trade stands
• Monitor and analyse event performance to optimise future event attendance
• Lead on all internal events, from arranging team get-togethers, logistics for team training days, Christmas parties and the company away days
• Organise B2B webinars with partner businesses

General Marketing Support

• Own and draft internal communications for our team newsletter
• Report on the success of marketing campaigns
• Find the best deals on marketing materials and facilitate orders
• Conduct market research to identify trends, competitor strategies, and opportunities for innovation
• Draft copy for social media and schedule daily posts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter & Bluesky
• Social media community management

About you

• You will have experience of working in Marketing, ideally in a startup/scale-up, where you understand the pace of delivery and working with sometimes ambiguous requirements. If you have worked for an online-first, digital or e-commerce business, even better
• HTML coding skills are essential to create our email marketing campaigns
• Previous event coordination/management experience
• Comfortable compiling and analysing data from various sources
• Flawless copywriting skills
• Personable with a good telephone manner and good negotiation skills
• Strong organisational and time-management abilities
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently on projects
• Show a willingness to learn and adapt to new platforms and technologies
• If you speak another European language, that would be a plus
• Experience using Salesforce, Slack, Google Analytics, Figma and Photoshop is a bonus
• Educated to degree level or equivalent

Salary: £35-38k, depending on experience

Pitchup employee benefits

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Pension matched to 4%, private healthcare, life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
• Great staff discounts on Pitchup bookings across thousands of properties in 70 countries
• A work-from-home office equipment allowance
• Company away days
• Employee assistance helpline, with access to wellbeing, nutrition, financial and legal advice and counselling
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Cycle to work scheme

About Pitchup

Want to work with an award-winning and quickly expanding company? We’re the leading website for outdoor holidays, making it a doddle to book camping, glamping and caravan sites worldwide, with over 6,000 to choose from.

Pitchup.com receives 63m annual visits and up to 9,173 bookings per day. So far £500m worth of holidays have been booked through us and we’ve helped 17m holidaymakers make their great escape. We recently launched our new website, updating the look and feel and increasing conversion. The company is profitable and was founded in 2009 by former lastminute.com staff with a background in the holiday park sector.

You will join a nimble team of 70 based in 10 countries, all working from home, as we are a 100% remote business.

Our site has been featured in leading global media titles, such as BBC News, New York Times, Le Figaro, and more, and has been translated into 17 languages. We’re members of the Financial Times\' FT1000 fastest growing companies in Europe and recently were awarded the Platinum Trusted Service Award by Feefo, for achieving a customer rating of at least 4.5 out of 5 for the sixth year in a row.