Marketing Assistant/Coordinator

Sagentia; Cambourne; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Job summary

Sagentia is seeking a Marketing Assistant to support five practice areas in a busy marketing team. The role, based in Harston with occasional UK travel to London, Epsom, and Bristol, focuses on administrative tasks to enable marketing plans and activities.

Ideal candidates are organized, communicative, and capable of multitasking, with opportunity to learn and progress within the marketing function. PowerPoint and Excel proficiency is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills with attention to detail.
• BPSS clearance can be facilitated by the employer, required for defence work.
• Experience in marketing in a B2B or services organisation is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Marketing administration and support: manage stocks, literature, purchases, and inquiries.
• Event administration: plan and support marketing events, logistics, and ROI tracking.
• Create and edit content using PPT/Canva; assist with collateral production and distribution.
• Prepare and send email campaigns, manage contact lists, and monitor follow-ups.
• CRM data maintenance and report on marketing analytics.

Skills

PowerPoint

Excel

Team collaboration

Prioritization

Multitasking

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Design eye

Education

Strong academic background

Tools

Deltek

Job description

Sagentia is a leading global regulatory, science and technology consultancy. It excels in research and development, safety and regulatory services, and technical programme delivery. The business has five practices operating internationally across the highly regulated markets of medical, defence, aviation, consumer, food and beverage, and industrial

This role is an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic marketing team that spans all five practices: Sagentia Innovation, Medical, Regulatory, Defence, and Aviation.

The Marketing Assistant will work closely with Marketing Managers and Executives in each practice. The role will suit an organised person who enjoys being a key team member, communicates effectively, and can multitask. Based in Harston, the successful candidate will occasionally travel to other UK locations (London, Epsom, and Bristol offices).

This role will suit someone looking for an administrative role in a marketing context. Should they wish to pursue a career in marketing, they will have the opportunity to learn from a marketing team and progress within it. The core function of this role is to support the marketing team in delivering their marketing plans by alleviating them of administrative tasks and activities.

Key Responsibilities

Marketing administration and support:

• Source and order branded merchandise and literature. Maintain stocks and handle distribution
• Maintain building branding, reception literature, and client tour areas
• Maintain photo library folder, including sourcing new images and assisting with photo shoots
• Assist with membership and subscription registration and renewals
• Raise purchase orders, record spend and set up new suppliers
• Handle and log inbound email and website enquiries
• Support internal communication by keeping the intranet and internal screens up to date
• Collating analytics of marketing activity

Event administration:
You will be responsible for booking and supporting marketing events that business development personnel attend. Event coordination might include:

• Closely monitoring and communicating about the overall event plan
• Researching events
• Supporting event business case preparation and approval
• Event booking, planning, logistics, and supporting marcomms and promotion
• Post-event follow-up tracking and reporting on the ROI

Always working within our brand guidelines, you will work with the marketing team and external agencies to:

• Support content production and visual graphics in PPT, Canva and sometimes other applications
• Writing skills would be an advantage and provide an opportunity to get involved with content editing and creation
• Support the development, creation, printing, and distribution/shipping of marketing materials such as merchandise, case studies, sales slides, brochures, whitepapers, infographics, video, photography, animations, business cards, and any branded collateral.
• Use email templates and broadcast systems to prepare and send email campaigns and newsletters
• Manage contact lists, provide email delivery reports, update contact statuses, monitor and report on follow-up activities.
• CRM data maintenance and cleansing as and when required

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

We expect candidates to have a good academic background and be very strong in PowerPoint and Excel. Given that this role will require some work within our Defence team, the candidate will need BPSS clearance, which we can facilitate.

• Collaborative team player - Ability to work effectively as part of a team with good communication skills
• Able to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners
• Good organisational and interpersonal skills
• Ability to prioritise tasks
• Ability to multitask and operate effectively and efficiently under pressure in a fast-moving environment
• Excellent working use of PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
• Experience with finance systems such as Deltek (or willingness to learn)
• Excellent attention to detail and an eye for design
• A willingness to learn and able to exercise initiative
• Ability to work under tight deadlines
• Prior experience of marketing in a B2B or services organisation

We are committed to career development and can offer bespoke training and mentoring to help individuals thrive in their environment and realise their potential.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.

Sagentia is a leading global science, technology and regulatory consultancy. We excel in research and development, regulatory and safety services, and technical programme delivery.

Combining deep technical and scientific expertise with specialist industry knowledge, Sagentia’s consulting teams deliver best-in-class results against complex briefs.

Our culture is innovation-rich and outcomes-focused.