We are currently looking for a Marketing & Business Development Assistant to join our thriving Marketing team. This is a key position and is based at our London office.
The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in events and marketing.
The purpose of this role is to provide varied Marketing and Business Development support to the 5 teams within Menzies Specialist Advisory.
This role is extremely varied and would be ideal for someone who wants to launch their marketing career
Why Join Menzies?
- We are a UK based recognised employer of choice with office locations in London, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Hampshire, and South Wales (Cardiff).
- Join our family of over 650 employees. Be a member and not just a number!
- We offer a dynamic and rewarding environment with exposure to a diverse range of clients and industry sectors.
- Our package and benefits are very competitive.
- Work life balance is part of our organisational culture
- We believe in developing our staff throughout their career.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Supporting the Specialist Advisory marketing team on all areas of the marketing mix including:
- Events – webinars & F2F
- E-shots
- Design
- Campaign management
- Content development
- Podcasts
- Managing all admin elements of communications (events & external communications) through platforms such as HubSpot, Eventbrite and SurveyMonkey.
Data management & reporting – primarily via HubSpot
- Research & competitor analysis – including SEO projects
- Assisting with branding of internal comms documentation and presentations
- Support with design work including whitepapers, adverts, leaflets, iconography and banners.
- Assisting with content creation, repurposing and review
- Management of promotional merchandise
- General team admin and support
The Person:
The successful candidate will ideally have a strong interest in events and marketing with some work experience in a business environment but is not essential.
Required skills & Experience:
- 5 GCSE’s including English & Maths
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- MS Office skills – in particular Word and PowerPoint
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to plan and prioritise activities, using own initiative to organise workload.
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to build professional working relationships with clients and staff.
- Confident and presentable communicator, able to maintain a professional and confidential approach always
- Friendly and engaging
- Willingness to learn
- Can multi-task and not easily flustered.
- Helpful and forward thinking
- Handles Pressure well
- Reliable and flexible
Key Benefits we offer, but not limited to:
- Competitive base salary (we do yearly market research to ensure we offer a competitive salary to our employees and joining candidates)
- 33 days annual leave entitlement a year inc. bank holidays (31.5 days for trainees)
- Annual buy and sell leave scheme.
- Private Medical Cover available to all employees (trainees can opt in for a salary sacrifice)
- Private Pension Matching Scheme: if employee contributes 2.5-5%, we match it and add another 3% on top!
- Employee Referral Bonus up to £10,000 for a successful placement
- Reimbursement of one professional subscription each year
- Dress for your day policy – you decide, not us!
- Life Assurance 4x your salary
- Group Income Protection – 75% of salary if long term sickness exceeds 6 months.
- Agile Working is embedded in our culture: we understand that everyone works in different ways and need flexibility within their working day.
- Learning and Development opportunities and Study Support throughout your Menzies career
- Career Coaching programme for Managers and above
- Better Place to Work Initiative: proactive benchmarking of the best DEI and wellbeing programmes to offer our employees and improve our employee experience.
- CSR Programme: each office will be involved in various charity and sporting activities to help raise funds and give back to the local community.
- Employee Assistance Programme - our EAP is available for all Menzies employees and their families. As well as being a support line for mental health counselling, it also offers practical financial, legal and life management advice 24 /7 and is completely confidential.
- Paid sick leave – a generous scheme to help you when you are struggling with health issues.
- Free flu jab, eyesight test and physical health checks
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Enhanced Parental + Family Leave: We are a place where you can combine both a career and a family so those going on Maternity Leave can expect 100% pay for 3 months and 50% pay for the next 6 weeks, those going on Paternity Leave can expect 100% pay for 2 weeks (both subject to eligibility). We also have Adoption and Shared Parental Leave
- Volunteering Scheme with a maximum of 2.5 days given by the Firm to match 2.5 days devoted to qualifying schemes by the employee in any 12-month period.
- Season Ticket Loan
To find out more about our benefits please read here
About Us:
Our focus at Menzies is providing a #BrighterThinking approach, going the extra mile to keep clients on-track to achieve their personal and business objectives. As a leading UK accountancy and advisory firm, we have a passion for advising entrepreneurs and SMEs through our sector-led teams.
We apply the same principles to individuals within the Firm. Our people are ambitious, self-motivated, and encouraged to develop their skill set and realise their potential.
#BrighterThinking is how we sum up the difference we make, as a firm, to our clients and in the way we hire and develop talent in Menzies. It’s finance and accounting expertise, combined with strategic commercial thinking and a promise to add real value across all areas of our clients' businesses.
Agencies:
When we require external assistance with our vacancies, we will reach out to our PSL supply chain. Please be aware that we operate a very strict PSL policy with close relationships with our suppliers and cannot respond to agencies outside of the PSL. Please do not contact individual hiring managers.