Digital Marketing Executive.

About this role.

We’re looking for a well-rounded digital marketing executive with strong reporting and content experience to support the delivery of key campaigns for our clients.

Title: Digital Marketing Executive
Hours: Full-time, Flexitime
Location: Hybrid home/office working policy (we are based in the Northern Quarter, Manchester)
Salary: £25,000 per annum, upto 7% annual salary increase each December after your first full year. Ad-hoc bonuses.
Holidays: 31 per year, plus one extra per year


You’ll be supporting our internal marketing managers, helping them with everything from reporting and content production to creative ideas and strategy. This is a great opportunity to improve your career, to learn from our team and our clients, and to make a big difference to the great companies we work with.

Working with multichannel experts across disciplines as diverse as content marketing, SEM, eCRM and digital advertising, you’ll naturally be experienced enough to understand the uses and strengths of each channel.

Main Roles and Responsibilities

  • Creating and enhancing our internal and external reporting
  • Creating short and long-form content for our clients and campaigns
  • Supporting the team on all aspects of Digital Marketing Strategies / Campaigns from conception to completion and execution
  • Executing a range of digital marketing tactics in-line with clients objectives and budgets
  • Communicating effectively with our clients whilst being able to explain marketing channels in plain-english
  • Managing relationships with external suppliers
  • Adhering to and creating budget sheets/ media plans
  • Writing copy and preparing creatives for digital advertisements


Key Skills

  • At least 2 years’ experience in a similar role. In-house applicants welcome
  • The ideal candidate will preferably come from an agency background
  • Hands-on experience delivering and evaluating multichannel digital campaigns across disciplines such as SEO/PPC, organic and paid social media, video and inbound/content marketing
  • Experience in client-facing roles, working within a team running multiple projects and campaigns in a digital or creative marketing agency environment
  • Motivated people person who thrives with responsibility and always sets the example in putting clients first and finding new and exciting ways to use digital content and communications to reach audiences
  • Experience of creating copy for clients, whether short-form advertising copy or longer form content
  • Must be familiar and comfortable with Wordpress and CMS systems
  • Previous experience working with Google Analytics, Google Sheets / Excel and paid marketing channels (e.g. Google Ads, Facebook Ads)
  • Experience of building and updating reports
  • Highly organised, with amazing written and verbal communications skills and a love of working with and being around people
  • Educated to Degree level or equivalent experience.


Desirable Skills

  • Previous experience of Strategic Social Media Management. Planning organic campaigns using compelling and relevant content to attract in-market consumers
  • Knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite
  • Previous experience working with Google Analytics, Google Sheets / Excel and paid marketing channels (e.g. Google Ads, Facebook Ads)
  • The ability to think outside the box and deliver award-winning campaigns


What makes us different?

We want to get the best out of our team; we have a sensible hybrid-working and flexitime policy that allows you to be in an office when you want but work remotely when it's more sensible. We’re big on training and self-improvement, we have an annual salary increase scheme (up to 7% each year). We have social events, but we don’t enforce socialising. We respect our teams’ work-life balance.

For our clients, the big difference is our approach to strategy. We run discovery and strategy creation workshops, we create strategy playbooks that align with our client's goals then we adjust and optimise based on real-world data. Our campaigns perform better because we dig deep into our client's businesses and their customers, so we understand the buying cycle and our client's customers pain points.

Apply now: If you love the sound of this opportunity, send your CV and a short note to jobs@theeword.co.uk