Job Description
Do you thrive on delivering show-stopping creative work, content and campaigns?
We are looking for a talented, focused and self-motivated
Marketing Executive
to work within the Group Marketing Team of the UK's largest and most successful estate agency network. Must be a creative thinker who will help bring our marketing objectives to life through excellent initiatives, campaigns and collateral.
Reporting to the Head of Estate Agency Marketing you will help deliver marketing activity across the 20 Connells and Sequence estate agency brands, comprising almost 600 branches in total. In addition, you will support activity and initiatives across the Lettings and New Homes sectors of the business and pick up bespoke requests from branches.
Liaising across the Team and with relevant parties (including internal customers and agencies), you will ensure projects are dealt with in a timely and efficient manner, issuing appropriate paperwork and status reports and monitoring progress effectively. Building excellent working relationships within the Team, with suppliers and with people throughout the business is imperative, along with ensuring projects are successful and completed on time and on budget.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Responsible for the monitoring of the marketing email inboxes and job requests
- Pick up and review Branch Profile requests for website content, giving help and advice where needed
- Demonstrate your understanding and experience of utilising various marketing mediums
- Support the Marketing Team to maintain momentum on projects
- Be the voice of the customer in terms of understanding customer needs and ensuring the right communication methods are used
- Monitor competitor activity and monitor marketing activity out of our sector for new and good ideas
- Write content, edit and proof-read to a first class standard
- Ensure projects meet our own internal compliance requirements as well as regulatory requirements (Trading Standards, ASA etc)
- Demonstrate a full understanding of marketing principles and their practical implementation, including measurement of campaign success
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- Ideally, a degree in Marketing or related discipline (CIM Diploma in Professional Marketing advantageous)
- Minimum 2 years' experience in a Marketing role
- Team player with first-class verbal and written communication skills
- Creative, diplomatic, able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Professional and confident, proofreading skills and an exceptional eye for detail
- Knowledge of design and/or print processes an advantage
- Able to pick things up quickly and work on own initiative
- Skilled in a range of IT packages, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Acrobat
- Appreciation of the importance of advertising standards, legal and regulatory frameworks
- Genuine interest in property/the property market
Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
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