Marketing Assistant

Company : IOP Publishing
Location : Bristol / Hybrid
Closing Date : 23rd April 2023
Website : https://www.ioppublishingcareers.org/vacancy/marketing-assistant--521831.html

We are currently recruiting for an organised and efficient Marketing Assistant to join our Publishing team on a permanent basis.

The Marketing Assistant (MA) is responsible for providing marketing and administrative support within the Content and Engagement Marketing (CEM) team. The role-holder uses multi-channel marketing tactics, including email marketing, social media, advertising, and conferences (in-person and virtual), to support the business goals of our journals, books and conference series programmes.

Role Overview

The MA assists and supports the CEM team, reporting to the Marketing Manager, and will also work with colleagues in the global marketing teams as well as a variety of internal and external stakeholders. The role helps to implement campaigns that will effectively maximize our return on investment on marketing activities, as well as meet product, business area and company strategic objectives. The MA upholds best practice in all marketing activity and is part of a high-performing team with a passion for modern marketing techniques.

What will you be doing?

Key job accountabilities include:

  • Responsible for supporting the delivery of marketing activities across all key channels as allocated to them;
  • Contribute to and represent marketing on project-based work that will further the overall organisational objectives as directed by the Associate Director CEM, Marketing Manager or other members of the CEM team;
  • Responsible for the completion of tasks briefed to them by team members to support specific campaign and project goals;
  • Produce routine reports and undertake routine analysis of campaign performance;
  • Responsible for carrying out all administrative support, including processing invoices, to facilitate the smooth running of the team.

About you:

Successful applicants should demonstrate the following:

  • An understanding of and interest in marketing concepts, and the ability to learn how to use marketing tools quickly;
  • Good understanding of all social media platforms;
  • Previous office administration experience is preferred but not essential;
  • Ability to write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles;
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills, confidence in communication with stakeholders to liaise with internal and external customers at many different levels.

We know it is unusual for someone to tick every box so, if you don’t meet all the criteria, but demonstrate most of the skills and experience we are looking for, and have the enthusiasm to work with us, go ahead and apply.

What we offer:

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer employees an excellent pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution), discretionary annual bonus scheme, 25+ days holiday (not including bank holidays), standard 35-hour working week, volunteering days, and a comprehensive benefits package including private medical insurance, life assurance, and a range of flexible benefits such as cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership, healthcare cash plan, and payroll giving.

Our modern and contemporary offices are based in the thriving city centre of Bristol, a stone’s throw from Temple Meads train station, and within walking distance of Cabot Circus shopping centre and numerous cafés and restaurants. Named on more than one occasion as the best city in the UK to live in, Bristol is a cosmopolitan and creative city boasting a historic harbour, internationally renowned cultural institutions and is home to world-class festivals and events.

The contractual location of this role is IOPP’s Bristol office but as there will not be a requirement for the person in this role to be in the office on a weekly basis, we are open to considering applicants from a wider geographical area who are happy to travel to Bristol for quarterly meetings, annual appraisals, one to one and team meetings, subject to business needs. IOPP has a flexible, hybrid working model in place, in which colleagues work choose where they work for the majority of the time.

To apply, please submit your CV and cover note through our careers site.

We aim to review applications soon after they are received and will arrange interviews when there’s someone we’re keen to meet, so please don’t hold off applying until the closing date is approaching - we don’t want you, or us, to miss out!

About us:

IOP Publishing is an international scientific publisher, through which leading-edge research is distributed worldwide. Our rapidly expanding journals programme is published alongside other sources of scientific information in the form of ebooks, magazines and conference proceedings. Other publications include easily accessible community and regional websites. We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community and have offices in Europe, Asia and the US. Working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.

IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society. Any financial surplus earned by IOP Publishing goes to supporting science through the activities of the Institute. With a continuing focus on growth, we recognise that every single person has a real part to play if we’re to achieve our aim of becoming the world’s leading publisher in our field.

IOP Publishing is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented backgrounds.

Vision: Our vision is that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is both natural and sustainable and that is visible through the work we produce, our Ways of Being, our company branding, our professional networks and the colleagues and communities we serve and support.