The Marketing Executive will be responsible for delivering effective marketing campaigns to promote a large-scale international trade exhibition and conference. Working with the wider team, they will implement campaign plans using both traditional and digital marketing techniques. The Marketing Executive will play a key role in executive activities that drive Call for Paper submissions, delegate registrations, and media engagement.,
Responsibilities
- Contribute to all aspects of event marketing, applying best practice techniques to deliver clear and concise promotional messages.
- Email marketing: Manage and schedule e-marketing campaigns for delegate promotional campaigns; monitor performance, report on analytics, and apply insights to optimise future campaigns.
- Email marketing: Implement and manage email automation to streamline campaigns, drive higher engagement, and increase conversions.
- Digital marketing: Support in creating briefs for digital marketing campaigns (PPC and paid search), working closely with external agency.
- Website: Manage and update event website content to keep it current; leverage SEO knowledge and GA4 insights to increase traffic, enhance navigation, and support conversion goals.
- Data: Manage audience segmentations to target communications effectively; identify data gaps and support sourcing new data to enhance campaign performance.
- Social media: Manage and schedule social media content via Hootsuite, create digital assets, drive audience interaction and engagement, and report on channel growth and performance metrics.
- Marketing collaterals: Lead the creation, design, and production of marketing materials - including brochures, adverts, website graphics, and digital assets - to effectively promote the event to prospective exhibitors, sponsors, and visitors.
- Oversee marketing operations, including proofreading, delivering advertising copy, managing enquiries, and monitoring competitor activity to ensure accurate, timely and effective communications.
- Oversee the design and production of digital banners and ensure timely updates to conference brochures/
- Manage the speaker, Governing Body, and Executive committee advocacy campaigns, encouraging stakeholders to actively promote their presence and invite their networks, using the marketing toolkit.
- Provide onsite support to ensure the seamless execution of marketing activities, including communications, temporary staff management, supplier management, materials placement, and photo/video capture.
Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge
Marketing qualification is advantageous.
Minimum Experience
1-2 years' marketing experience.
Job‑Specific Skills
- Strong technical skills in email and web marketing
- Highly analytical
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Proficient in copy writing for variety of channels
- Skilled in HTML for email
- Experience in the use of databases in targeted direct marketing campaigns
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders at all levels internally and externally
- Strong negotiation and relationship‑building skills
Behavioural Competencies
- Practice good time management
- Trustworthy, professional and reliable
- Demonstrate good teamwork with co‑workers and peers