Account Director - Direct Marketing - Brighton - circa £45K

This established Agency based in central Brighton is looking to bring on board a talented and passionate Account Director to head up one of the agencies teams. They do fundraising from acquisition to legacy – and everything in-between.

You will have several years experience of advertising, in particular Direct Marketing, and be natural nurturing manager who wants to be a key part of the companies growth.

JOB PURPOSE

To maintain good client relationships (organic growth of existing clients), manage the internal teams, key responsibility for the agency’s bottom-line (client profitability) and ensure that the agency’s service to the client is being delivered efficiently and to the client’s satisfaction. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

§  To deliver regular planning and strategy sessions to ensure there is a pipeline of existing and new work discussed and agreed. 

§  Ensuring that the overall strategic direction for each charity partner is agreed with them, understood within the agency, maintained in all projects and regularly reviewed.

§  Identifying opportunities to add value to the agency-charity partner relationships, with incremental profit growth to the agency.

§  Helping on new business pitches and looking for opportunities for new business for the agency. 

§  Ensuring monthly sales forecasts and profitability targets are being met for each client.

§  To ensure client jobs are accurate on Harvest and to monitor and recover time (where appropriate) to deliver client profitability. 

§  Ensuring that the account team has the necessary resources and skills to service client requirements – the Account Director has a key role in managing and developing (including training) the individuals within the account team to ensure they understand and deliver to a satisfactory standard.

§  Approving creative briefs drafted by Planners, Account Managers or Executives, contributing where necessary.

§  Ensuring that all project work meets the brief and is accurate.

§  Ensuring that all work is presented to clients in an appropriate and professional manner.

§  Managing SAMs/AMs to ensure that schedules are updated as required and clients are kept fully informed of progress on all projects.

§  Approving all cost estimates to go to clients, ensuring accuracy and appropriate margins. This particularly relates to understanding VAT regulations.

§  Representing the agency in the marketplace. Maintaining the agency’s standards and reputation in all external dealings.

§  Maintaining detailed knowledge of charity marketing, direct marketing and client marketplaces and sharing this knowledge with the account team and clients.

COMMUNICATION AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

§  Maintaining regular contact with clients through business means and client hospitality

§  Motivating, managing, supervising and mentoring/training the account team

§  Developing formal training plan for account team to ensure internal knowledge is regularly transferred as well as external training taking place 

§  Briefing internal departments and designated external suppliers on project requirements, following agency procedures

§  Ensuring that good working relationships are being maintained between the account team, other departments and external suppliers

§  Ensuring that good communication between clients and the rest of the agency is being maintained – e.g. Senior Management Team, Creative, Production, Studio involvement where appropriate

 SPECIALIST SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS

§  The ability to motivate the account team

§  Numerate and financially/business savvy

§  The ability to mentor colleagues throughout the agency

§  Business development skills: spotting and exploiting opportunities

§  Project management skills: ability to juggle more than one task

§  Degree level education in any subject desirable

§  Detailed knowledge of direct marketing and other forms of communication

§  The ability to handle stressful situations and help others cope with stress

§  Tact and diplomacy, respect for other people’s opinions

§  PC skills – word processing, spreadsheet, email and presentation packages

§  Thorough knowledge of agency processes and DM techniques

§  Critical evaluation of strategic and creative proposals

§  Appreciation of business principles and working with senior management/at board level to deliver on agency’s objectives

§  A creative approach to problem-solving

8.   DEVELOPMENTAL AREAS

§  Management skills

§  Team motivation and training to ensure they develop and deliver an excellent, consistent service to clients

§  Continued development of knowledge of all aspects of Direct Marketing

§  Knowledge of clients’ business and marketplace

§  Finance/VAT/GDPR

Please forward your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

Digital Acquisitions Manager - 30 mins train or drive from Brighton - circa £38K

This is a really exciting opportunity for a talented Executive (agency or client-side background) looking to move to a client-side role to become a key part of a fast-moving, relatively small team working in the hugely topical category of reusables and an ever-changing landscape to help our potential customers navigate.

Your focus will be on identifying optimisations and driving efficiencies across existing performance media channels (social, PPC, Amazon), managing our affiliate programme (both recruitment and optimisation), optimising the on-site journey and conversion / bounce rates, and developing the SEO strategy and implementation to capitalise on interest in market.

Working with both the digital performance agency and internal Marketing team, you will lead all things messaging and reporting that gets the most out of the channels and strive to drive greater return from existing as well as exploring additional avenues for business growth.

In addition to the above, the post holder will also actively participate in projects and carry out any other duties that may be outside the standard remit, that will benefit the Company as a whole.

The Role:

·        Drive Organic traffic and revenue to the companies websites through best practice SEO.

·        Manage the Groups PPC and Paid Social channels, achieving targets ROAS and CPA.

·        Reflect the groups brand values across our Digital Marketing channels.

·        Be the company’s authority on SEO, PPC and Paid Social, setting the future strategy and educating colleagues across the business.

·        Deliver the Digital Marketing elements of the Customer Acquisition Plan.

Duties of the Digital Campaign Executive/Manager include:

Digital Management and Campaigns

·        Ownership of the business performance, reporting and strategy for Digital Marketing Channels for the business i.e. Organic, PPC and Paid Social.

·        Optimising all websites for Organic Search, ensuring technical elements are best practice and that content is created with SEO in mind.

·        Conducting regular SEO audits and tracking Organic Search performance.

·        Contributing to budget setting, tracking spend and forecasting spend outlook.

·        Managing product feeds for Shopping ads and Paid Social.

·        Working with Ecommerce, ensuring landing pages are optimised for search.

·        Innovation to drive incremental revenue growth from new markets, channels and tactics.

·        Collaborating with other teams to ensure site content is implemented in line with best practice for search channels.

·        Owning relationships with Google, Bing and marketing tech partners.

·        Design, execute and project manage Digital Marketing campaigns to acquire, retain and re-engage with customers.

·        Campaign planning and implementation alongside wider marketing team with responsibility for objectives and tracking of performance within new channels tested in particular.

·        Keep on top of changes in the biddable landscape within channels to report back internally and liaise with agency.

·        Provide business-wide and regularly created reports demonstrating performance of our core channels and likely impact on other departments / monthly campaign and offer decision making.

·        Support the Marketing Manager in designing the campaign implementation calendar.

Analysis and Measures

·        Responsibility for tracking media agency performance by channel and lead on optimisations and efficiencies which can be gained within in order to fully understand business value by channel / format (with a true complete marketing cost to business).

·        Monitor the success of each campaign, measuring the ROI and adjusting the campaign accordingly.

·        Track all KPI’s including open rates, conversion rates, ROI and work proactively to improve them.

Requirements of the role:

·        Advanced knowledge of digital marketing as a mandatory, other media a bonus, specifically working across digital display media, PPC, all biddable technologies including paid social and Shopping channels and working knowledge of affiliate marketing, Amazon advertising and SEO

·        Likely to have 4+ years experience in either a hands-on SEO or PPC role at an established retailer or agency.

·        Strong Google Analytics knowledge.

·        Reporting across markets and channels both in terms of regular KPI tracking and ad hoc insight.

·        Ability to perform complex data analysis in Excel or equivalent.

·        Experience in SEMrush.

·        Demonstrate the Companies Values.

·        Passionate about reusable and the companies Ethos.

·        Excellent organisational ability and attention to detail.

·        Excellent verbal and written communication skills .

·        Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

·        Solid understanding of the use of a range of social media platforms, particularly concerning advertising and branding.

·        Excellent time management skills.

·        Flexible and adaptable to change.

·        Drive and commitment to the role. 

·        Able to work well as part of a team and alone.

·        Commercially astute.

Please forward your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

Direct Marketing and Content Specialist - flexible working - Brighton - £30-35K

Direct Markeitng and Content Specialist 

Our client is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK - founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,200 branches nationwide, the Group combines residential sales and lettings expertise for over 80 well known brands.

They are now looking to build a team of marketeers and for this role is looking for a strategic, innovative thinker who has an interest in the latest communication tools and is keen to share their own ideas, experience and problem-solving skills to take the email marketing to the next level.

This role would suit a highly organised individual who is experienced in email and direct mail, and has hands on experience in copywriting. 

Main Responsibilities: 

·       Deliver all promotional and content-based email and direct mail campaigns in line with the trading and content calendars; including creative direction and copy. You will be passionate about ensuring the customer receives the right message at the right time.

·       You will deliver increased personalisation, segmentation and relevancy in all campaigns.

·       Ensure all campaigns are scheduled and delivered to brief.

·       Maintain lifecycle communication programmes (Always On) to drive continuous improvements to customer retention and lifetime value.

·       Write copy and proof read emails for clarity, grammar and spelling.

·       Ensure prompt and accurate communication to minimise opt outs.

·       Ensure target audiences and data are accurate and relevant.

·       Analyse campaign performance and suggest improvements.

·       Ensure campaigns follow industry policies and best practices.

·       Devise and action a testing and optimisation plan for email and direct mail campaigns.

Skills & experience required:

·       Excellent written and verbal communication, and copywriting skills.

·       Proven work experience in copy writing and also direct marketing channels.

·       Understand the customer base, and engagement, through insight, CRM data segmentation and data analysis, and measure and report on all email performance. 

·       Ability to be flexible and adjust strategy to suit and integrate a wide range of technology/marketing platforms.

·       Strong project management skills.

·       An ability to work under tight deadlines.

·       An acute eye for detail.

·       Strong commercial awareness and trading focus.

·       Have an understanding of segmentation and personalisation and how these practices might be used in improving customer communications.

·       Able to manage time effectively, work remotely and to prioritise actions.

·       Good understanding of GDPR and marketing communication compliance.

Please forward your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

CRM Specialist - Brighton - flexible working - salary £30-35K DOE

Our client is one of the largest and most successful estate agency and property services providers in the UK - founded in 1936 and with a network of over 1,200 branches nationwide, the Group combines residential sales and lettings expertise for over 80 well known brands.

They are now looking to build a team of marketeers and for this role is looking for a strategic, innovative thinker who has an interest in the latest communication tools and is keen to share their own ideas, experience and problem-solving skills to take our email marketing to the next level.

This role would suit a highly organised individual who is experienced in HTML and email analytics who is ready to help manage our email marketing strategy. You will be responsible for running email marketing campaigns end-to-end across multiple brands and products. 

Main Responsibilities: 

·       You will be passionate about ensuring the customer receives the right message at the right time, with a focus on optimizing existing triggered email campaigns, as well as developing and launching new ones.

·       Deliver all promotional and content-based email campaigns in line with the trading and content calendars; including creative direction, copy and HTML coding.

·       You will deliver increased personalisation, segmentation and relevancy in all emails.

·       Ensure all emails are scheduled and delivered to brief.

·       Maintain lifecycle communication programmes (Always On) to drive continuous improvements to customer retention and lifetime value.

·       Proofread emails for clarity, grammar and spelling.

·       Design, build and deliver the monthly customer email newsletter, offering a range of content across the group services.

·       Upgrade email templates using graphics, personalisation and advanced features.

·       Ensure target audiences and data are accurate and relevant.

·       Analyse campaign performance and suggest improvements.

·       Ensure emails follow industry policies and best practices.

·       Devise and action a testing and optimisation plan for campaign and automated emails, and provide analysis from these on a weekly and monthly basis.

·       Develop robust documentation, including specific work instructions, and best practices.

·       Management and ownership of data (feeds) to ensure accuracy and understand of the available audiences.

Skills & experience required:

·       Excellent written and verbal communication, and copywriting skills.

·       Hands on experience with HTML and content management systems.

·       Understand the customer base, and engagement, through insight, CRM data segmentation and data analysis, and measure and report on all email performance. 

·       Ability to be flexible and adjust strategy to suit and integrate a wide range of technology/marketing platforms.

·       Strong project management skills.

·       An ability to work under tight deadlines.

·       Experience in analytical tools including Google Analytics.

·       An acute eye for detail.

·       Strong commercial awareness and trading focus.

·       Able to manage time effectively, work remotely and to prioritise actions.

·       Good understanding of GDPR and marketing communication compliance.

Please forward your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

Project Manager - Marketing Agency - Brighton - circa £30K

This well known creative and strategic fundraising agencies, is looking for a dynamic Project Manager to join the team and work with their well known clients.

Responsibilities will include management of a wide range of online and offline marketing projects and campaigns, and assisting with the day-to-day running of projects. This is a client-facing role so it's key that you have a strong track record of building and maintaining good relationships and a focus on delivering great service.

 Ideally you will have 3+ years agency experience, be flexible, proactive, highly organised, confident at managing projects and able to liaise with clients independently. You’ll be expected to understand clients’ objectives in order to write creative briefs and manage the process through to the finished product.

KEY DUTIES

1.  Interpersonal / Leadership skills

-   Responsible for acting as a link between the company and the client, for the coordination of the campaign

-   Delivers projects on time, to the scope and within budget

-   Communicate clearly to all involved, both internally and externally

-   Manages and solves client issues, whilst raising issues to Account Director and/or Operations Director 

-   Demonstrates transparency in all communications with line manager and colleagues

-   Solves client issues and independently moderates conflicts with significant complexity and political sensitivity

-    Demonstrates excellent ‘people skills’ with the ability to work productively and professionally with a range of colleagues and clients

2.  Client relations / communication

-   Meeting and liaising with clients to discuss and identify their advertising requirements

-   Works with colleagues to devise and deliver marketing and advertising campaigns that meet the client’s brief and budget

-   Prepares creative and media briefs and feeds into the studio team

-   Liaises with, and acts as the link between, the client and the company by maintaining regular contact and pro-active communication

-   Handles new business enquiries, seeking support from the Business Development Manager 

-   Ensures communication flows effectively both internally and externally

-   Writes client reports and media results summaries

-   Evaluates and monitor the effectiveness of campaigns in liaison with media partner

-   Seeks opportunities to showcase the agencies work among current and prospective clients

3. Strategic and tactical planning

-   Responsible for managing resources on own accounts, liaising with AD/OD and identifying where there is a need for additional freelance support as required

-   Prepares and manages project timeline and ensures deadlines are met

-   Plans and manages photo shoots, film and radio production

-   Responsible for the day to day communications regarding the progress of accounts

-   Contributes to finding solutions to problems and thinks creatively about how to tackle projects

-   Confidently makes decisions, taking accountability for decision making and ownership of work tasks

4.  Financial acumen

-   Demonstrates good business sense and the ability to work within budgets

-   Prepares quotations and sources estimates for outsourced services with support from Business Development Manager (or AD/OD)

-   Manages external resources and tracks costs e.g. media planners and strategists

-   Closely monitors timesheets to ensure account profitability

-   Keeps an accurate record of own time spent on client work via timesheets

-   Shows accuracy and attention to detail

-   Produces and submits invoices to clients in a timely manner

-   Demonstrates project management skills and awareness of efficient use of studio resources and time

5.   Brand market/company knowledge

-   Comprehensive understanding of clients’ business and actively seeks opportunities for further account development

-   Encourages staff and all specialist partners to integrate emerging technologies into client recommendations

-   Demonstrates thorough understanding of key industry trends

6. Creative contribution/advertising savvy

-   Assists the Creative teams, to formulate marketing strategies

-   Evaluates creative work and provide constructive comments

-   Sells the creative product to the client

Please forward your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

Marketing Manager/Head of Brand - Unique opportunity - excellent salary for the right person

 Marketing Manager / Head of Brand

Real Estate / Sustainability

Our client has a model that makes exponential sustainability not just possible but hugely desirable and achievable.  At the heart of their business is a real estate platform - They plan, design, partner, finance, build, own and manage the physical fabric of place. 

They are currently looking to hire a Head of Brand / Marketing Manager who will have the unique opportunity to work with the senior, ambitious and experienced leadership team to build a super brand. This is more than just a job.... it’s the opportunity to be part of a new campaign to use ‘Place’ as the medium to move further, faster, deeper in finding solutions rooted in neighbourhoods, that will help people to flourish while safeguarding the planet for future generations.

About the Job

The company is in start-up to scale-up phase and need to build a professional marketing function with real world class capability.

The marketing function will help ‘manifest’ a £350m urban development in Sussex in a focused, tangible and inspiring way. Dramatizing the ‘reason why’, proposition, features and benefits, and the point of difference.  The neighbourhood will act as a template for further development sites across the UK and beyond, what they do now will set future trends.  

Marketing is central to their success - not simply due to the sales imperative, but because they need to help stakeholders from politicians and town planners to the general public understand what they are trying to do; what they are buying into, and how this will offer a remarkable, new, more sustainable way of living.  The Marketing manager will be focused on translating business objectives into a communications strategy and ensuring faultless implementation

As Marketing Manager/HOB you will define the shape of their marketing division and team, plus identify the potential evolution of the function to scale within the company. You will hone the marketing strategy and use your past experience of growing similar stage companies to guide their growth journey.

 

 

Requirements

·       Experience: You already have 5+ years of Brand management or marketing experience ideally in a start-up / scale-up.  Sustainability and Real Estate experience would also be a big plus

·       Mastery: You are creative but also a good strategist who picks up the right point of view. You have outstanding writing, editing, and proofreading skills. 

·       Autonomous: You have strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects simultaneously. You plan and do – they are a company of doers.  You are also excellent at managing multiple stakeholders

·       Make an impact: You excel in a fast-growing environment. 

·       Passion: You are passionate about sustainability and communities

·       Leadership: You have the ability to both challenge and guide, plus of course listen.

·       Results Driven:  You strive to understand the impact of the campaigns you are undertaking and how they affect the Target audience.

·       Community Driven:  Success will be intrinsically linked to the various communities they help create and build.  You must enjoy curating communities from both the people who will live in their places to politicians and stakeholders.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious and dynamic business and help shape their success.

Please forward your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

Strategic Marketing Manager, Brighton, Home Interiors, £40-50K DOE

One of the largest suppliers in their sector within the home interiors business are now looking to bring on board a Marketing Manager. You will be joining an ambitious, fast moving company poised to take its marketing approach to the next level. Whilst creative and brand management skills are an advantage, your strongest skills will be both analytical and strategic so that you can lead the teams and deliver against targets.

You will oversee the planning and execution strategies across channels for the company portfolio of B2C brands in the UK and the USA, as well as the rapidly growing UK-based B2B model.

Key Responsibilities: 

·       Responsible for the day-to-day management of all marketing channels

·       Lead the growth strategy for 3 core markets

·       Setting the overall marketing strategy and constructing the marketing plan 

·       Developing the talented in-house team and working with the central team specialists (PPC, SEO, Design) to deliver results against targets. 

·       Managing all marketing spend (ads, affiliate and social) and providing weekly and monthly budget reports. 

·       Maintaining the strong SEO performance and identifying areas for improvement. 

·       Ensuring campaigns and platforms are subject to continual optimisation through regular testing and review. 

·       Holding the external agencies to account to ensure performance objectives are being met.

·       Developing the fledgling affiliate programmes and identifying other areas of untapped opportunity. 

Experience:

• 3+ years in a similar marketing management role

• Solid understanding of Google Analytics

• Budgeting and responsible for paid marketing activity

• Email, social, paid advertising and affiliate marketing

• Offline channels including OOH and direct mail

• Understanding of Google shopping feed

• Compiling and delivering reports and results to company directors

• Education to degree level in a marketing or business related subject would be advantageous

Skills:

·       Strong analytical skills

·       Ability to work dynamically, in a fast-paced environment 

·       Proven leadership skills with the ability to nurture talent in others

·       Excellent communicator 

·       Competent in setting and working to targets and deadlines 

Additional:

·       Experience in the home interiors industry would be advantageous 

·       Experience working for an ecommerce retailer (client side) would be preferred

Benefits:

• Pension scheme with employer contribution

• 36 days Annual Leave (inclusive of Bank Holidays), increased for long service employees

• Heath-focused benefits package

• Flexible working supported, finding a healthy balance between office-based and WFH

• Enjoy unlimited coffee and soft drinks in the office

• Opportunities for career development with an ambitious and growing company

Please forward your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

Head of Marketing, Boxpark, London EC2 - £75-80K + bonus + share options

HEAD OF MARKETING - BOXPARK

£75-80K + Bonus + Share Options

Shoreditch Head Office Based (Friday home-working if preferred)

The Company

Boxpark helps bring communities together by providing the best food, drink and entertainment under one roof. With its Eat.Drink.Play philosophy, Boxpark is London’s biggest food, culture and social hub. After launching in 2011 with its ethos of bringing shipping containers to East London, Boxpark has transformed spaces into the world’s first pop up dining and shopping destination.

With three venues in iconic Shoreditch, Croydon and Wembley locations and plans to launch more sites in major UK and international cities it’s the perfect time to join this award-winning, fast-growing and ambitious hospitality and leisure business.

The Role

We’re looking for a confident, ambitious and structured Head of Marketing who can deliver strategic and impactful marketing campaigns from conception to completion. You’ll be inspiring a team of marketing, PR and social media executives and reporting to the CEO so you’ll be a natural leader who is equally happy to roll your sleeves up to drive results. You’ll work closely with the heads of operations, design and events.  

Key Responsibilities

·         Devising, refining and implementing the marketing strategy for existing and new sites

·         Using all relevant marketing channels to engage, promote and drive growth

·         Planning and delivering weekly, monthly and seasonal marketing campaigns

·         Reporting weekly to the board on all marketing activity

·         Website curation and content, optimising SEO performance and conversions

·         Managing and developing Boxpark’s Black Card digital loyalty programme

·         Set the CRM strategy for communicating effectively with customers and growing numbers and loyalists

·         Overseeing and managing all event marketing

·         Managing external PR and design agencies

·         Overseeing paid social and PPC campaigns

·         Being the Boxpark brand guardian - Ensuring a consistent tone of voice and that all activity adheres to brand guidelines

·         Managing all direct/email campaigns and improving performance

·         Ensuring effective data capture and improving customer insights

·         Producing great copy, campaign ideas and briefs for external agencies

·         Collaborate creatively and commercially with traders, partners, sponsors and agencies

·         Working with traders on events, PR and marketing activities that help develop their businesses

The Person

·         5+ years proven experience in a marketing role within the hospitality, leisure, venue or events sector (we’re also open to someone who’s worked in an agency and would relish working client-side).

·         Passionate about food & drink, music and culture

·         Able to work flexibly and independently in a fast-paced, dynamic, start-up style environment

·         Embraces change

·         Proactive, organised, focused and hard working

·         Ambitious with high levels of drive and energy

·         Excellent communication and presentation skills

·         Collaborative and happy to help others

·         Down to earth - Willing to ‘roll up sleeves’ and get involved when required

·         Confident, outgoing, engaging, people-centred and fun

This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful, ambitious and fast-growing business and help shape its future.

 To apply please email your CV to derek@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

Senior Digital Marketing Executive, Luxury Travel, Horsham, Up to £35k

Do you have 2+ years digital marketing experience?

A passion for digital marketing with a love of data and analytics?

Would you like to work in the luxury travel marketplace?

Our client runs a Global super yacht brokerage in Horsham, they are now looking for an experienced senior digital marketing executive to join their friendly team. The successful candidate will have a good knowledge across a broad range of digital marketing functions, with experience in content strategy, acquisition campaigns and website optimisation as well as an analytical mindset

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a passionate international team with world class products and develop your skills on a global basis.

The role will be based at least 3 days per week in their modern offices in central Horsham. Benefits include 25 days holiday and private health insurance.

The Senior Digital Marketing Executive role:

Reporting to the Marketing Projects Coordinator and working closely with the Digital Marketing Manager, responsibilities for the role include, but are not limited to:

• Coordinating with the wider marketing team to ensure cross-channel strategy for all campaigns and activity

• Help manage the digital content strategy across email, website, and social media

• Management of email marketing campaigns

• Working on overall website optimisation strategy and roadmap including CRO and A/B testing, working with external development agency

• Working closely with external agency to manage all paid media campaigns across display, paid search and paid social

• Working with the Digital Marketing Executive, manage overall social media strategy and analysis

The Senior Digital Marketing Executive candidate:

You’ll have a passion for digital marketing and will enjoy staying up to date on the latest trends and will have experience in the following areas:

• A minimum of 2 years’ pure digital marketing experience

• Experience working within luxury, leisure, or travel sectors preferred but not essential.

• Educated to degree level in marketing, business or another relevant equivalent qualification preferred.

• Good communicator with excellent written English and attention to detail

• Website management (Drupal and Wordpress experience beneficial)

• Conversion rate optimization and A/B testing

• A thorough understanding of SEO best practice and principles (both technical and on- page preferred)

• Knowledge of SEO tools such as SEM Rush, Moz, Searchmetrics

• Google Analytics (advanced)

• Google Ads (creating, managing & optimising campaigns)

• Social media (experience of managing and optimising key social platforms)

• Email marketing (experience of managing and optimising email campaigns)

Benefits:

• Office attendance in new Horsham office 3 days a week

• WFH 2 days a week

• Individual private health insurance following successful completion of the probationary period

• Pension scheme following successful completion of the probationary period

• Full time, 9am to 5.30pm with 1 hour for lunch, Monday to Friday

• 25 days holiday per annum plus all bank holidays

Conference Producer & Researcher, Sustainability, Brighton, £24k-£30k plus profit share

Do you have some Conference Producer experience?

Or….. are you a post grad with 2 years PR, Journalism or Research experience?

Would you like to work on global events whilst having a positive impact upon the planet? 

Our Brighton based conference client runs global events taking place in, San Francisco, New York, Toronto and London.  Due to rapid expansion, they are now looking for a new Conference Producer to join their hard-working and friendly team based in central Brighton..

The Conference Producer will research and produce the speaking programmes for their international business summits focused on investment in sustainable technologies, including water, food and agriculture. In the past year all of these events have been run online and they have built a very successful virtual event platform

With lots of new projects on the horizon and massive growth potential in their marketplaces you will be able to shape and grow your career within the business over the coming years. There is also the opportunity for international travel once COVID travel restrictions are lifted.

The Company:

This highly reputed company have built a reputation for excellence in each of their markets and are planning rapid expansion in the next two years they are based in a new, modern & relaxed office located in central Brighton, just a couple of minutes ‘walk to the beach. 

The company work with innovative start-ups and leading brands such as Google, Coca-Cola, IBM, GE and Intel. Their events take place in London, San Francisco, New York, Toronto and Singapore, so international travel is also plays a part of this role. 

Their events are targeted at and built with the very top people in the sustainability sector. They are research led, but with a commercial purpose in mind. They design high quality programmes with unrivalled speakers, and due to this they have an excellent reputation in the markets they serve. 

The company continue to grow year on year and are committed to re-investment to ensure they hit their long-term growth goals.

The Conference Producer Role

The Conference Producer will research and produce the speaking programmes for their international business summits focused on investment in sustainable technologies, including water, food and agriculture.

·       Conduct online and telephone research to identify the issues, challenges and opportunities within a specific clean-tech investment sector

·       Write an engaging agenda for the conference, and invite and secure high-profile speakers for your programme

·       Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to ensure we maximise the number of sponsors, exhibitors and attendees at your events

·       Write promotional and marketing materials, including web content, brochure and emails

·       Travel to and co-manage each conference on the day, looking after speakers and ensuring the smooth running of the presentations and panels

The Conference Producer Candidate:

Ideally you will be commercially savvy with experience in conference production and/or Research, PR or Journalism.  Strong academics are essential, as is the “presence” to be able to introduce speakers onstage (or online as it is at the moment!).

Skills and Experience

·       Strong academic credentials: Min 2:1 at degree level

·       At least two years’ commercial experience: Conference production experience is ideal, but experience within journalism, PR or research would be a good background for this role

·       Research skills: The ability to quickly get up to speed with new topics and identify the key issues and players within each

·       Commercial acumen: An understanding of what makes a conference work, and how we can create events which generate real business opportunities for our audience

·       Excellent communications skills: The ability to connect with CEO-level business leaders by phone and in writing, and to create persuasive marketing copy

·       Project management: Self-motivated and organised – able to plan your own time to complete a project to tight deadlines

·       Strong interpersonal skills: The ability to work within a close-knit team and to inspire and motivate your team-mates

·       Language skills an added bonus

The Package: 

Ø  Generous Pension Scheme

Ø  International travel 

Ø  Cycle to work scheme

Ø  Coffee Mondays, Beach picnics, Sports Day

Ø  Strong training programme and career development opportunities 

Ø  Modern office in the centre of Brighton located just a couple of minutes from the beach!

Exhibition Sales Executive, Organic Sector, Brighton, £25k-£28k plus £5k comms

Do you have a passion for natural and Organic Products?

Do you have some sales experience?

Or are you a quick learning graduate who would like to work in the fast paced and exciting world of events?

Our fabulous central Brighton based and international client are currently recruiting a full time Exhibition Sales Executive to work on their leading UK B2B trade event. 

This is a rare and exciting opportunity for an ambitious, focused sales professional, looking to develop their career in sales, within a successful, growing company.  

The company:

The client is a successful international exhibition and conference company with over 100 events globally.  Already well-established with several successful events in the UK, the company is set to continue to expand significantly over the next few years.  They pride themselves on providing a fun and inspiring workplace, combined with an entrepreneurial, 'can-do', attitude, offering a vibrant working environment with modern offices right in the heart of Brighton.

The trade show that you would be working on is Europe’s leading trade show in their sector, it has been running for over 20 years and takes place in London. The show attract UK and overseas trade buyer, distributors, wholesalers and stores looking for finished products to sell.

THE ROLE:

You will be working as part of a team and will be part of a successful, dynamic and expanding show in which they are experiencing unparalleled growth

• Selling both on the telephone and face to face, with a consultative selling approach

• Account management to develop and maintain strong client relationships

• To identify and develop new business

• To attend relevant trade shows both in the UK and Europe

• To ensure that individual and team sales targets are met

• To provide excellent customer relations at all times

• Collaborate with other departments such as operations, marketing, and finance, to ensure delivery of client needs.

• To write sales emails, reports, newsletters, copy for visitor and exhibitor campaigns.

• Stay up to date on relevant industry knowledge and research market.

• Interest in social media on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

• Updating and maintaining all systems relevant to the event, including exhibitor database, sales figures and contracts and floorplan.

• Assist Group Event Director with administration work and sales contracts.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

The successful candidate must be confident at selling on the phone and face to face with a consultative approach, strong communication and organisation skills are a must, with excellent attention to detail, as well as superb account management skills and the ability to confidentially convert sales.

• Sales experience preferred or a quick learning Graduate

• Interest in the events and exhibition industry, not essential

• The ability to meet and exceed sales target

• Entrepreneurial in nature

• Strong communication skills both written and verbal

• Excellent attention to detail

• Hands-on, get it done attitude as well as being a good team player

• Willing to go the extra mile

• Powerpoint and additionally CRM experience would be great but not essential

Additional Information: 

• Salary negotiable depending on experience + commission

• 25 days holiday entitlement per annum in additional to Bank Holidays

• Up to 5% pension contributions

• Health Cash Plan

Graduate International Conference Sales Executive, Sustainability Events, £18k-£22k plus £5k - £10k comms

Are you an ambitious Graduate who is also a team player?

Are you passionate about sustainability?

Would you like to work within the sustainability sector, whilst having the opportunity to earn a good basic and commission on top?

Our Brighton based events client creates international conferences within the Sustainability sector. They are now looking for 2-3 highly motivated Graduate Sales Executives to join their friendly close-knit team. This well respected company are based in a spacious modern office in the centre of Brighton, just a short walk to the beach. They offer a strong training programme and excellent career development opportunities. 

If you are looking to begin a career in sales, marketing or events, or to gain a foothold in the sustainability sector, this could be the ideal role for you!.

Commission is uncapped so there is great earning potential whilst supporting a positive impact on the planet due to the nature of their events. You can also earn special bonuses if you outperform.

The Company:

They are a fast-growing company with an exceptional team that are passionate about what they do. Based in Brighton, they work globally, with their biggest events taking place in San Francisco, New York, London, Singapore, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and São Paulo. In the past year they have run all our events online and have built a very successful virtual event platform.

Their goal is to inform and shape the future of Industries with greater presence and impact of cleantech and renewables. 

The company continue to grow year on year and are committed to re-investment to ensure they hit their long-term growth goals.

The Graduate Delegate Sales Executive role: 

As a delegate sales executive, you will sell attendance across a portfolio of market leading B2B conferences that focus on innovation and sustainability. You will be expected to use telephone and email to convert leads into paid attendees for the summit. Attendees are C-suite representatives from game-changing organisations such as: NASA, Google, Impossible, Microsoft, IBM, IKEA, WWF, J.P. Morgan, to name a few!

 In more detail, you will: 

- Follow up new business leads and enquiries.
- Identify and account manage past multi-buyers and key customers. 
- Build, operate and maintain our sales database. 
- Work closely with the marketing, business development, research, and operations teams.

- Help with the running of each event on the day (live or virtual).

The Graduate Delegate Sales Executive Candidate:

·      Educated to Degree level (preferred but not essential)

·      Self-motivation and strong work ethic

·      Natural curiosity and passion for sustainability

·      -An international outlook and interest in current affairs

·      Good IT skills including MS Office 

·      Track record of high achievement

·      Confident and professional manner (written and verbal)

·      A good sense of humour! 

Bonus skills, but not essential! 

·      Additional languages – Spanish, German, French 

·      Understanding and experience of the B2B conference model 

·      Experience with Salesforce /databases

The Package: 

o   Competitive basic, uncapped commission 

o   Pension ‘contribution matching’ 5%

o   Cycle to work scheme

o   Coffee Mondays, Beach picnics, Sports Day

o   International travel opportunities (post Covid-19)

o   Strong training programme and career development opportunities 

o   Working with a tight-knit friendly team

o   Small, fun & relaxed office which is located just a couple of minutes from the beach! 

Camera Operator/Editor, Media Production Company, Brighton, circa £27K DOE

Our client is a film studio for the modern age, based in central Brighton and are a nomadic production hub made up of modular teams with bespoke talents and cutting-edge technology.

They make films with their clients , not for them. On any one project, one of their film directors help find the story that needs to be told.

The directors specialise in documentary filmmaking, behind the scenes features and educational content, all of which are driven to make films with meaning. They have over a decade of award-winning films behind them and a collective of long-standing clients who they work closely with to push themselves and make each film better than our last.

They are now looking for a resourceful, advanced camera operator/ editor with extensive experience across all stages of the production process to join the company and help create films as part of a small collaborative team.

The position will include working on a wide range of commercial projects, including micro- documentaries, educational and corporate films. Candidates should be highly organised, with a practical, creative mindset whilst being able to work well under pressure and towards tight deadlines and budgets.

Position Duties

Pre-Production
In this role, you will help develop strong scripts/ storyboards and shot lists to meet client’s briefs. You will also be expected to assist the Production Manager in the careful planning logistics, this can include booking locations and talent, generating call sheets, and preparing risk assessment.

Production
You will be required to plan and execute camera setups for different projects. These will range from interview setups to multi-camera scenes to fully roaming gimbal setups. In addition, you will be required to consider lighting and ensure setups are lit effectively and to the style of the project. You will also be responsible for the maintenance and organisation of the filming equipment, particularly in the preparation of upcoming shoots.

Post-Production
Beyond just ripping, converting and syncing footage, you will also be responsible for setting up editing projects with a consistent, logical structure. This includes the first assembly, where rushes are trimmed and organised for internal and client viewing.

Whether sculpting narratives from rushes without a storyboard or constructing a scripted film, you will be responsible for creating rough cuts within set timescales and budget. You should also be able to finalise a film to a high-quality level, including titles, colour grading and consistent sound mixes.

it is estimated that your camera operator duties will consist of approximately 5 productions per month (Please consider that the number of productions is not always consistent each month), with the remaining 15 working days focusing primarily on editing and your other duties. Production days will likely be longer than office days.

Highly Desired Skills and Experience

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Proven ability to work to deadlines

• Highly organised and independent

• 2+ years of video production experience working as a part of a small production company or as a freelancer

• In-depth knowledge of the pre-production processes required to produce high-quality outputs

• Advanced technical knowledge of high-end camera and sound recording equipment [Canon/ RED]

• Extensive experience using NLE software [Premiere/ DaVinci]

• Proficiency with macOS

• Full clean UK driver’s license

Please forward your CV and and a link to your showreel to zoe@espaehatchmedia.co.uk

Sales Operations Manager, Citrus Ornge Media, Brighton - £35K

Sales Operations Manager - Citrus Ornge Media

The Company: Who are Citrus Ornge?

Citrus Ornge is a specialist performance marketing, technology and publishing business who are experts in high-end B2B and B2C demand generation. We provide bespoke digital marketing products and high-end telemarketing services for B2B publishers and financial services.

As we enter another phase of growth we are looking for someone who can hit the ground running and quickly become a key part of the expansion of the sales and operations team across the business.

What we are looking for

As Sales Operations Manager, you will directly oversee sales operations on a day to day basis to ensure efficient and effective processes. You will be accountable for the successful deployment and delivery of all commercial activity. Accessing and utilising responsibilities and resources across the team to ensure campaigns are deployed and all activity is successfully executed.

You will serve our local and national customers through the development and implementation of best practice. methods and procedures. You will proactively make suggestions and execute plans for system and process improvements using your knowledge of media operations.

You will be responsible for managing 3rd party partners (data) and relationships with brands, agencies and internal/external stakeholders. Therefore it essential that you have account management experience and/or are confident in a technical environment.

The business is in a period of rapid growth. We are looking for an ambitious self-starter to work closely with the Sales Manager and Managing Director to provide exceptional support both internally to the team, marketing partners and clients where required.

The role will report into Citrus Ornge’s CEO and Founder. You will be based with our team in our central office in The Lanes, Brighton. You will be part of something compelling, which will provide you with job satisfaction as the business is in a period of rapid growth. There is room for growth and the chance to make a real difference as we take the business to the next level.

What you’ll be involved with

· Manage and improve performance through performance monitoring, problem resolution, system audits and quality assurance measures

· Developing and executing campaign strategies, reporting and feedback loops.

· Analytical reporting across multichannel campaigns.

· Using campaign data to inform future campaign strategies.

· Running monthly marketing and appointment setting reviews and tracking campaign performance and productivity.

· Implementing CRM marketing automation by setting strategies, creating content and executing campaigns

· Support HR and new staff onboarding

· Maintain the highest level of efficiency possible within the organization

· Improve and monitor organizational processes, and work to improve quality, productivity and efficiency where possible

· Work with our partner web developers to support any tech and dev requirements

· Chase clients and publishers for overdue invoices where required

What you should have

· Experience working as an Operations Manager for a brand or agency, ideally B2B.

· Understanding of general finance and budgeting, including profit and loss, and cash-flow management

· Experience using CRMs, ideally HubSpot.

· Experience working with 3rd party partners and brands and agencies

· Comfortable with technical activities such as volume requests and dataloads and know your way around Microsoft excel and google docs

Qualifications/Experience

3 - 5 years operations experience in an agency or marketing environment

Benefits:

· Competitive Basic Salary (dependant on experience)

· Pension scheme with employer contribution

· 28 days Annual Leave (inclusive of Bank Holidays), increased for long service

· Opportunities for career development with an ambitious and growing company

· An exciting and bustling creative working environment with a group of passionate people

· Some flexible working

This position is available immediately for a suitable candidate.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £35,000.00 per yea

PPC Manager, 15 minutes on the train from Brighton, Client side, £35-45K

Our client is a well-established British natural lifestyle company who have recently expanded in the UK and International market and have grown their turnover to £50M, making them one of the fastest growing online retailers with three brands and ten international websites.

They are now growing the marketing team with several new positions one of which is for a PPC professional who will manage the process of monitoring and managing the company’s campaign PPC ad spend.

This is an office based role with some flexibility for the right person.

The office is based a 30 minute drive out of Brighton with on-site parking, or a quick 14 minute train ride.

The Role

• Creating new and optimising existing PPC campaigns across all channels

• Carrying out keyword and market research

• PPC reporting

• Reviewing and split testing ad copy and creative

• Ensuring shopping feeds are up to date and maintained correctly

• Daily adjustment of budgets and bids

• Analysing data to refine current strategy

• Ensuring all paid search activity falls in line with current marketing strategy

• Developing the companies Paid Social channel and growing this in their acquisition mix

• Line management of 1 x executive

Along with working for a forward thinking company who do their bit for the planet this role can be flexible dependent on the individual. The company offers an exciting opportunity for this position as well as some fab benefits.

Please send your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

Digital Marketing Manager, Client side role, 30 minute drive from Brighton, £45-60K DOE

Our client is a well-established British natural lifestyle company who have recently expanded in the UK and International market and have grown their turnover to £50M, making them one of the fastest growing online retailers with three brands and ten international websites.

They are now growing the marketing team with several new positions one of which is for a Digital Marketing Manager who will manage the marketing operation and also motivate and develop a team of three and further down the line recruit more people into the department.

This is an office based role with some flexibility for the right person.

The office is based a 30 minute drive out of Brighton with on-site parking, or a quick 14 minute train ride.

The Role

• Drive organic traffic and revenue to the companies websites through best practice SEO.

• Manage the groups PPC and Paid Social channels, achieving target ROAS and CPA.

• Recruit, motivate and develop the Digital Marketing team.

• Reflect the groups brand values across our Digital Marketing channels.

• Be the company’s authority on SEO, PPC and Paid Social, setting the future strategy and educating colleagues across the business.

• Deliver the Digital Marketing elements of the Customer Acquisition Plan.

Key Objectives

• Ownership of the business performance, reporting and strategy for Digital Marketing Channels i.e. Organic, PPC and Paid Social.

• Optimising all websites for Organic Search, ensuring technical elements are best practice and that content is created with SEO in mind.

• Conducting regular SEO audits and tracking Organic Search performance.

• Managing the PPC team working across Paid Search, Paid Shopping, Display and Paid Social for the group.

• Contributing to Budget setting, tracking spend and forecasting spend outlook.

• Managing product feeds for Shopping ads and Paid Social.

• Working with Ecommerce ensuring landing pages are optimised for Search.

• Providing Reporting and Analysis on performance on Digital Marketing Channels.

• Innovation to drive incremental revenue growth from new markets, channels and tactics.

• Collaborating with Ecommerce, Creative and Buying & Merchandising teams to ensure site content is implemented in line with best practice for Search channels.

• Owning relationships with Google, Bing and marketing tech partners.

Your Skills

• Advanced knowledge of SEO.

• Advanced knowledge of PPC including Search, Shopping, Display and Paid Social.

• Likely to have 4+ years experience in either a hands-on SEO or PPC role at an established retailer or agency

• Strong GoogleAnalytics knowledge.

• Building strong working relationships and gaining buy-in from stakeholders and colleagues.

• Reporting across markets and channels both in terms of regular KPI tracking and ad hoc insight.

• Ability to perform complex data analysis in Excel or equivalent.

• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

• Recruiting and leading a team, inspiring, motivating and developing talent.

Along with working for a forward thinking company who do their bit for the planet this role can be flexible dependent on the individual. The company offers and exciting opportunity for this position as well as some fab benefits.

Please send your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

Events Executive, Brighton B2B Company, £22-25K

Our client is a dynamic events company that organizes corporate functions on an international basis for advisors who deal with high net worth individuals. The client base includes international banks, law firms, real estate advisors, accountancy firms, and our events senior professionals seeking to build their reputation and networks. Their events are held at 5* venues around the world in London, Geneva, Dubai, Singapore & Miami, and elsewhere.

They have ambitious growth plans and they are recruiting an Events Executive to help them achieve their targets. They have grown the business through the pandemic by innovating their core products and creating new services. In 2022, they are back with a schedule of live events around the world, having successfully run a number of events in Autumn 2021. They are looking for the right person to join the team with a passion for events and marketing. 

The Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a young, fun, and ambitious company. They are looking for someone to join and grow with them with room to develop the role. 

Our client currently have an exciting opportunity for an Events Executive to join the events team of a busy marketing department, you will:

• Play an integral role in organizing a range of Live & Digital events - you have impeccable attention to detail and thrive on seeing tasks through to completion

• Juggle multiple tasks as second nature. As an admin extraordinaire you are exceptional at managing and delivering a variety of tasks through to completion.

• Challenge yourself to do the best work possible. Delivering tasks to the highest standard possible motivates you, after all - this stuff is important!

• Be dealing with key customers on the details of each Live event from promotion, to guest lists and event logistics.

This position will report to the Directors

There is flexibility on the role location, to work within their offices in central Brighton or remotely, with access to a regular meeting in Brighton. 

The Person

The ideal person will be a confident, positive and enthusiastic individual. You will have a strong client-focused ethic, be a self-starter, and be adaptable to the demands of a small business. You will have great attention to detail and be willing to learn our systems.

• Passion for live events & marketing industry

• Extremely well organized and ability to work in a methodical & logical way

• High standards of literacy and numeracy

• Spoken & written English fluency

• Good communication skills & telephone manner

• Excellent I.T. skills ability to use Google Drive/cloud applications

• Experience of Monday an advantage

• A willingness to learn new skills and a desire to progress

• Flexibility to respond to last-minute changes and meet deadlines in a timely manner

What you'll be doing every day

• Assisting and supporting the Events team with the preparation and execution of all events, providing a wide range of administrative support

• Working with the Directors to manage the requirements of key clients who are sponsoring upcoming events.

• Booking all accommodation/transportation for global events in line with the budget set by the Directors

• Maintaining the Group's centralised events calendars and research and maintain an industry events calendar

• Scoping suitable venues in line with event brief as set by the Directors and keep an up to date global venue inventory

• Arranging transportation of collateral and promotional items to global events

• Helping out the rest of the events team with webinar coordination

• Ad-Hoc logistics as necessary that are set by the Directors

Benefits

You will be working for a modern, forward thinking business that is innovative, creative and effective within the professional services marketing industry. They seriously believe in personal development & without question; you will benefit from working with some exceptionally talented people. 

A salary of £25,000 plus great benefits such as 25 days holidays, individual training budget, and birthdays off plus other benefits you may not find in other, bigger companies, as well as the opportunity to help grow an already successful business.

Please send your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

B2B Digital Marketing Executive, Events, Brighton, Flexible working, circa £35K

Our client is a dynamic events company that organizes corporate functions on an international basis for advisors who deal with high net worth individuals. The client base includes international banks, law firms, real estate advisors, accountancy firms, and our events senior professionals seeking to build their reputation and networks. Their events are held at 5* venues around the world in London, Geneva, Dubai, Singapore & Miami, and elsewhere. 

The company has ambitious growth plans and they are looking for a Digital Marketing Executive to help them achieve their targets. The business has grown through the pandemic by innovating their core products, creating new digital products and services. In 2022, they are adding brand new digital services to their existing clients creating an exciting opportunity for growth. 

The Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a young, fun, and ambitious company. They looking for someone to join and grow with them with room to develop the role.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Digital Marketing Executive to join the events team of a busy marketing department, you will:

• Play an integral role in creative Digital Marketing campaigns for our Live and Digital products - let your creative juices flow!

• Work with the support of an experienced design team to bring your campaign ideas to life.

• Enjoy supporting and encouraging more junior design team members and working as part of a small team

• Juggle multiple tasks as second nature and know how to manage your time and meet deadlines.

• Challenge yourself to do the best work possible. Delivering tasks to the highest standard possible motivates you, after all - this stuff is important!

This position will report to the Directors.

There is flexibility on the role location, to work within their offices in central Brighton or remotely, with access to a regular meeting in Brighton. 

The Person

The ideal person will be a confident, positive and enthusiastic individual. You will have a strong client-focused ethic, be a self-starter, and be adaptable to the demands of a small business. You will have great attention to detail and be willing to learn our systems.

• At least 5 years experience in a marketing environment, ideally within a B2B environment. You should be passionate about marketing and keen to develop your skills further

• A creative flair with an eye for detail - you will enjoy the creative process and be driven to produce high-quality content

• Excellent communication and people skills, comfortable delivering presentations to management, colleagues, and customers

• A self-motivated individual who can manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously, able to go from idea to execution

• Experience & flair for Social Media & Networking and comfortable using social media scheduling tools

• Experienced in SEO, Paid marketing, Email, Social, Content and affiliate marketing with an understanding of ROI

• Technically minded and analytically strong - good experience of web tools, Google Analytics and confident using tools such as Google Sheets or Excel to analyse and visualise data.

• Experience using Monday or project management software an advantage

What you'll be doing every day

• Create campaigns to target new customers and existing customers with relevant products with a focus on conversion

• Create engaging content, to include video and images for our social media accounts

• Work with our creative team to develop content for our social media accounts.

• Put together monthly, quarterly and annual plans & strategies for all marketing areas to include email, social, paid, affiliate/partnerships that are in line with overall business objectives

• Be responsible for the delivery of marketing materials (digital brochures, landing pages, emails) to help drive leads and sales

• Develop and implement lead generation strategies and tactics to introduce new business customers to our products and deliver leads to our sales teams

• Build the brand - utilising marketing techniques across various media including email, social media, online & offline activities to increase our brand awareness.

• Undertake competitor analysis - checking prices, features and identifying competitive advantages.

• Analyse the results of marketing campaigns and make strategic decisions to pursue successes

• Work on developing partnerships in the industry and representing our brands at events where appropriate

• Create and update automated workflows

• Work closely with the product team to shape and develop the entire customer journey, from the minute a customer is directed to our brand to long after they've converted

Benefits

You will be working for a modern, forward thinking business that is innovative, creative and effective within the professional services marketing industry. They seriously believe in personal development & without question; you will benefit from working with some exceptionally talented people. 

A salary of £35,000 plus great benefits such as 25 days holidays, individual training budget, and birthdays off plus other benefits you may not find in other, bigger companies, as well as the opportunity to help grow an already successful business.

Please send your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk

FILLED - Head of Business Development, Be The Fox: £45-55K (pro rata) + bonus - Brighton

Head of Business Development – Be The Fox

Part-time/ 3-4 days a week

Central Brighton

£45-55K (pro rata) + Bonus

Office-based but open to some flexible/home-working

The Company

Be The Fox is an award-winning creative production agency for brands.

We work with global brands including British Airways, Ford, Bulldog Skincare, Nissan, EDF, Samsung and Thames Water.

From strategy to creative concepting, through to beautifully-crafted content and broadcast projects, our team of producers, directors, editors and strategists regularly move heaven and earth to help our clients realise their business objectives.

We are an inclusive female-led company based in the heart of Brighton’s North Laine. It’s a small friendly studio with ambition to scale, while having fun along the way. We hold regular Friday ‘drinks at our desks’, company socials and finish early on Fridays in the summer holidays.

The Role of Head of Business Development

We’re looking to recruit a proven Head of Business Development to build further on the foundations we have put in place. Reporting to the co-founders you’ll be responsible for developing, nurturing and closing new business leads to contribute to the successful growth of the business. Key responsibilities are:

· Initiating and building long-term client relationships with agencies and brands by building a strategic pipeline and generating leads and engagement with the CRM and social channels

· Identify and develop content strategies based around client needs and sectors by leveraging agency experience and strengths

· Winning profitable new business

· Working collaboratively with the senior management team to meet targets

· Raising the profile of Be The Fox via PR, networking, attending events and writing articles.

· Creating and implementing the monthly new business strategy

· Creating and tailoring pitch-winning treatments and stand out creds decks and managing pitch process.

· Overseeing our website SEO optimisation and paid advertising strategy.

· Undertaking any reasonable duties as required to meet the needs of the business

The Ideal Candidate for the Head of Business Development Role

You’ll be an experienced new business person with prior success in new business generation for a creative production company, advertising agency or major media owner. You’ll have the following skills and experience:

· Able to generate new business via research, incoming leads, networking, qualified leads, event attendance and recommendations

· Experience in developing and managing new business systems and processes

· Knowledge of creative content projects – understands how a project evolves and what everyone’s role is

· A belief in and passion for great content and story telling

· Hard-working, highly-organised, motivated, genuinely wants to deliver a project for clients that is beautifully-crafted and effective

· Excellent spoken and written communication skills

· Able to truly listen

· Able to regularly report back to the senior management team on the evolving new business development strategy

· Full UK driving licence and valid passport and happy to travel occasionally to international events

Personality Profile for the Head of Business Development

· Honesty and integrity

· Charm

· Confident and outgoing

· Energetic and driven

· Cares for the success of clients

· Comfortable in a small team

· Fun

· Driven to take initiative

· Wants to over deliver for clients and the business

This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful, ambitious and growing creative production company in a central Brighton location.

Part-time hours: 21-28 per week

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £45,000.00-£55,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

• Bonus scheme

Benefits:

• Casual dress

• Company events

• Company pension

• Flexible schedule

• Wellness programmes

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (preferred)

Experience:

• creative agency or advertising agency new business: 3 years (required)

Work remotely:

• No

PR & Social Account Manager, Consumer Comms Agency, Near Rye, £26-30K

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing PR Agency located in the beautiful countryside near Rye, East Sussex.

They are looking for an enthusiastic, creative, driven, PR and Social Media Manager to run the day-to-day agency operations in this exciting business environment as part of the management team.

This dynamic, established PR and Communications Agency providing targeted press relations, social media management, influencer marketing and content solutions to a number of innovative brands and organisations – specialising in consumer goods and services. They create engaging editorial content and get stories featured in the magazines, blogs and online portals that their client’s target customers look at every day. Clients include consumer electrical appliances brands, audio products and health and fitness products.

Following a rebrand in 2020, they are in the middle of a huge growth phase and need candidates seeking exciting and challenging career prospects. There has never been a better time to get onboard with the agency.

As PR and Social Media Manager, you will be responsible for managing the day-to-day account execution and administration, covering all aspects of the business – PR, social media, influencer marketing and content creation. Your role will include working closely with clients and being responsible for ensuring client requirements are delivered on time.

Reporting to the Associate Director, you will be line managing a small team and will be responsible for setting the team’s tasks and activities to ensure client accounts are well organised and deliverables are achieved. You will need to be an expert in all things communication – from press and media relations, to social media management and content creation.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• The ability to write compelling copy across multiple channels

• Impeccable attention to detail – the role will involve regularly editing and checking the team’s work before it is presented to clients

• The ability to multitask seamlessly and work well under pressure

• Excellent organisational and leadership abilities

• At least three years of agency or in-house PR experience OR

• At least three years of experience in a relevant communications role

• Two years of management experience

Based on a breath-taking private woodland estate in rural East Sussex, you will need your own transport, an impeccable sense of humour and love dogs. In return you will be offered a competitive package, flexible working environment and an unrivalled career opportunity for the right candidate. 

The position will be office based and candidates will need to live near or be willing to commute to Rye, East Sussex. In the current circumstances, the role may start as working from home, initial interviews will be via Zoom, but second interviews and inductions will be held on site.

POSITION EXPECTATIONS 

Media Planning and Execution 

• A deep understanding of how the media and social media works, available opportunities, building relationships with journalists and influencers

• Working with business managers/brand owners and relevant senior managers to develop effective/targeted communication to generate online and print coverage

• Managing the end-to-end process of press release distribution and follow-ups

• Selling-in stories to media, journalists and influencers

• Proactively looking for opportunities for client stories and products

• Overseeing the organisation of events; ranging from workshops, photo calls, press conferences, and training days etc. on behalf of clients

• Writing engaging and compelling press releases, case studies and content

• Overseeing the creation of social media content for clients which enlighten audiences and promote brand-focused messages

• Auditing, analysing and reporting on social media presences and PR campaigns, including digital advertising costs and returns

• Overseeing the creation, implementation and monitoring of paid social media advertisements

Client Delivery and Strategy 

• Ensuring all communication with clients is of the highest quality

• Taking ownership of client accounts and liaising directly with clients on a regular basis

• Producing activity/opportunity reports

• Delivery on client KPIs and implementing client strategies

• Identifying publicity opportunities and devising campaigns

• Overseeing press coverage is captured and delivered to clients

• Leading meetings, including preparation and presenting

• Participating and leading in presentations to existing clients and at new business pitches alongside the management team

• Contributing to new business brainstorms and creative campaign ideas

Management and Administration

• Managing and overseeing the team’s day-to-day activities and tasks

• Overall responsibility for team output and performance

• Reviewing, proofing and signing off written materials across PR, social media and content

• Direct line managing the team including conducting performance reviews

• Undertaking media and administration desk research for new business pitches and current client programmes

• Overseeing administration for accounts including filing, press cuttings, image library etc.

• Overseeing tracking review sample logistics and progress, keeping accurate records

• Other admin duties as and when required

Please forward your CV to zoe@escapehatchmedia.co.uk