Job type: Full time (37.5 hours). Fully office based
Location: Borough, SE1
About the company
Akabo Media is a leading publishing and events company specialising in the logistics, supply chain, tolling, robotics, automation, and transport industries. We are committed to delivering high-value content and providing exceptional experiences through our magazines, conferences, awards, and exhibitions.
We have events in the UK, USA, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
Key Responsibilities
You will assist with a range of marketing support activities in an operational capacity and provide day-to-day support to the Marketing team:
- Assist in producing graphics, house adverts, web adverts, and other materials, updating websites
- Assist in the implementation of our marketing plans, the running of events, exhibitions, and awards, managing social media activity across brands.
- Assisting with attendee campaigns, and with marketing and operations
- Help generate delegates for events, entries for awards, and subscribers for magazines and newsletters.
- Support campaigns for both virtual and eventually in-person events such as meet-ups, conferences, webinars, and more.
- Ad hoc research and analysis to support campaign activities as required.
- Creativity and the ability to spot opportunities to help us continually innovate.
- Assist and monitor social media activity, help increase the engagement.
- Awards: generating awards entries through promotional activity and direct contact; assisting with awards admin, marketing and operations; marketing places at the awards presentation, responding to entry correspondence.
- Magazines/websites: growing subscribers to the newsletters.
Experience and Skills
- Graduate ideally in Marketing, Business, or related field
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Good attention to detail and an eye for design.
- Experience with marketing tools such as LinkedIn Campaign Manager, Asana, InDesign, would be a plus
- Good writer, with good command of punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
- Articulate and capable face to face and on the telephone
- Sound working knowledge of main software tools such as Excel and Word.
- A proactive attitude, with ability to keep on top of the latest thinking and propose innovative methods and activity.
- Good interpersonal skills with a positive manner.
- The ability to be a good team player.
Benefits
- 20 days holiday + bank holidays with an increase to 25 days after 12 months service.
- Plus Paid Birthday Day off.
- Plus 3 paid days off during Christmas period.
- Opportunity to travel within the UK & internationally (USA, Brussels, Asia, Middle East etc).
- Free Private Medical Insurance & gym membership discounts.
- Group Pension scheme.
- Free Employee Assistance Programme.
- Social & Company events.
- Modern office near London Bridge.
- Season Ticket Loan.
- Dress down Fridays.
- Training & development opportunities with money contributed towards personal development of your choice.