Marketing Executive

This role will be based at Wade International, Halstead.

About AWMS:

AWMS, part of Alumasc Group, is the first joined-up brand in integrated water management. Alumasc Group - the leading UK supplier of premium building products, systems and solutions - has been promoting the efficient use, retention, recycling and disposal of water for almost 90 years.

AWMS brings together the expertise of leading industry brands in water management to provide one simple solution in water management – Rain to Drain. These include: Skyline Fascias, Soffit & Copings; Alumasc Rainwater Gutters & Downpipes; Harmer Building Drainage; Wade Drainage and Gatic Drainage & Access Covers.

About the Marketing Team:

You will sit within the Marketing joining 4 other employees, who hold extensive knowledge and experience of the business and what we are all about! They will be able to support you to bring you up to speed with all the expertise you will need to know to hit the ground running!

Main Purpose of Role:

This is an exciting new opportunity for an up-and-coming Marketing Executive with graphic design skills to join a busy Marketing department. The role will assist Senior Product Manager and be responsible for areas of digital marketing including website maintenance, social media management, SEO and email campaigns.

You will be actively involved with all parts of our day-to-day tasks and will have the opportunity to bring your own creativity and ideas to marketing creations. You will contribute to the marketing strategy, looking at ways to improve on the current marketing of the business and help with implementation of new strategies.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Digital Marketing

• Management of multiple social media channels: LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
• Plan, create and deliver contents across social channels
• Website management and content creation via CMS
• Work with suppliers to keep our profiles and information hosted on suppliers’ websites are up to date
• Monitor industry trends and standards on digital marketing

General Marketing

• Manage the Marketing email inbox and redirect / respond as needed
• Organise sample product and POS orders in a good time scale
• Ensure all contents/marketing documents are kept up to date on the digital platforms
• Compose and distribute e-newsletter/e-shot to subscribers/customer lists
• Propose new ideas and concepts for social media contents
• Responsible for housekeeping case studies, imagery and artwork etc.
• Manage print tasks such as business cards and brochures
• Manage marketing merchandise orders and inventory of marketing materials
• Update ASMs monthly on logins/projects tracker extracted from the websites’ database
• Assist with exhibition activities, e.g. liaison with the stand supplier to ensure production of a quality stand
• Liaise with marketing suppliers, e.g. printers, sub-contractors and exhibition stand supplier etc
• Assist Senior Product Manager with general marketing tasks when required

Graphic Design

• Re-design or update our marketing materials including brochures, datasheets, posters, flyers and point of sale displays etc
• Create or update email templates
• Design exhibition stands

Key Requirements and Preferred Experience:

• Broad digital marketing experience within a similar level role
• Experience in creating and delivering contents for online platforms, mainly websites, social media channels and e-newsletters
• Confident with website management via CMS software, ideally WordPress
• Confident with using Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong Adobe Creative Suite (or similar) knowledge, proficient in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Multitasking skills and manage time expectations on requests
• Creative and organised
• Great eye for detail
• Good reliability and integrity
• Happy to work as part of a small team and solo
• Flexibility and willingness to adapt to different tasks and projects
• Educated to a degree level with marketing or graphic design qualifications
• Experience in communicating and working with agencies and suppliers
• Experience in Construction industry with rainwater and drainage products, e.g. guttering system, gully and channel drainage
• Experience in paid digital advertising (Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Bing) ensuring company goals are met
• Experience in Adobe Premier Pro
• Experience with CRM
• Skills, technical knowledge and experiences utilised including SEO, Google suite of tools
• Experience in digital newsletter tools, e.g. Dotdigital
• Current driving licence

Does the role sound like something you are interested in? If so, let's get to the important bit:

Salary Range: £27,000 - £31,500 DOE

Working Hours: Mon - Thurs 08:30 - 17:00, Fri 08:30 - 14:30 (We all love an early Friday finish!)

Holidays: 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays

Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme

Cycle 2 Work Scheme

Quarterly Employee Recognition Scheme

Benefits Hub (Discounts, Rewards and Perks on 1,000s of brands)

Unum, Help@hand - Health and Wellbeing Employee Assistance Platform

Employee Referral Programme

Free Parking

AWMS is an equal opportunities employer committed to providing a work environment that values the strengths that diversity brings to our employees. We positively encourage applications from all eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion/belief, martial status or pregnancy. We are striving towards gender equality!

We aim to ensure that all applicants are provided with the same opportunities during the recruitment process and we strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments requested are considered, should you require a particular adjustment to be made to allow you to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know.