Marketing Assistant
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Position Overview & Specifications
MARKETING ASSISTANT
This role works across three small businesses (with the same ownership), PhotoBomb, Box Balloons and Licktuk. There are elements that cross-promote with each other.
- PhotoBomb
Events company providing photo booths, prop hire and more for weddings and corporate events across the North of England and beyond.
Box Balloons
E-commerce business selling inflated helium balloons in a box, delivered next day to anywhere in the UK.LickTuk
Our miniaturised event ice cream van with soft-service ice cream and toppings for weddings and corporate activations.
The overall mission of this role is to drive enquiries, sales and brand awareness across our three brands. It’s a fun role and we’re looking for someone who can excel with the following:
1. Digital marketing
2. Social media
3. Email marketing
4. Website management
5. Outreach
A summary what each of these includes is below:
Digital Marketing:
- Develop a strategy and implement paid ad campaigns for our brands across Meta andGoogle, sometimes working with our PPC agency to deliver this.
- Monitor ad performance and impact and make appropriate changes to content and targeting to get the most out of our ad spend each month.
- Develop organic reach across our websites with improvements to SEO, which will work hand-in-hand with content management.
Social Media:
- Manage our Social Media channels and develop a strategy to create and publish regular, thought-out, high quality content to promote our businesses and grow our audiences.
- For Box Balloons in particular, explore opportunities to sell our products via social media and generate a new revenue stream.
- Proactively engage with popular groups for weddings etc on social media to promote PhotoBomb and Licktuk.
Email marketing:
- Grow/develop mailing lists for all of our brands.
- Work on a strategy for regular, high-quality mailouts for all of our brands that promote what we’re doing and generate more leads/sales.
- For Box Balloons, improve how we recover abandoned checkouts and encourage customers to come back for more purchases in future.
Website:
- Maintain and improve content for PhotoBomb and Lucktuk on Squarespace to promote our services, keep content fresh and generate more leads for weddings and events.
- Develop a strategy to expand into more corporate work and create enticing web content that promotes what we can do for brand activations.
- Organise photo shoots so we have our own high-quality images and videos to use across all of our brands and websites.
- With Box Balloons, update the site on Shopify throughout the year to keep the content fresh and react to large holidays/events/seasons.
Outreach:
- For Box Balloons, develop a strategy and manage the influencer outreach to ensure we pick the right people to work with and get great results from their content.
- For PhotoBomb and Licktuk, work with venues to create strong relationships that may lead to us being recommended suppliers.
- Select wedding fairs that we can attend to reach more of the right customers and showcase our products with PhotoBomb flair.
Requirements for the role:
We are happy to consider all applicants with demonstrable experience or knowledge in marketing roles or similar, a brilliant self-starter attitude is more important us. Here’s what we’d like as a minimum:
- Two years experience in marketing roles, but happy to consider graduates or strong portfolios and work experience.
- Experience with digital marketing, managing campaigns and ad spend on Google and Meta.
- Understanding of SEO and how to implement effective changes.
- Demonstrable work managing social channels and growing audiences through planned content and regular posting.
- Experience with mailing list services and creating brilliantly designed campaigns on a regular basis.
Plus points:
- Experience/understanding of e-commerce businesses
- Ability to use Adobe PhotoShop
- Experience with SquareSpace
- Experience with Shopify
What you’ll get:
We’re a business that can let you show what you can do and grab a project by the horns and make things happen. We’ll let you do your thing and show us the results. We’re a small but passionate team and to work with and supportive of each other.
- Type: We are happy to consider part-time, or splitting this job between two people. For the right experience we are happy to look at Full-Time.
- Salary:based on experience but listed in the Post for full time.
- Equipment: Apple MacBook Pro and software needed to do your job
- Flexible working:We’ve got a warehouse in Leeds (LS11) but you can also work from home, or we can provide you with a co-working space membership.
- Benefits: Company pension, 25 days holiday.
If you have any questions, please contact scott@photobomb.co.uk for more information.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £16,169.18-£26,822.85 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
Supplemental pay types:
- Performance bonus
- Yearly bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Leeds: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- A-Level or equivalent (preferred)
Experience:
- social media management (required)
- Google Ads (required)
- Email marketing (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leeds
Application deadline: 26/05/2023
Reference ID: PTB-MA
Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process
Application & Resume Screening
Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.
Technical & Competency Interviews
Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.
Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation
Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.
Onboarding & Corporate Integration
Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.
United Kingdom Right to Work & Skilled Worker Visa Guide
Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:
Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.
Continuous employment under Skilled Worker status establishes eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) after 5 continuous years, leading to British Citizenship.
Candidate Preparation Blueprint: General
Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Marketing Assistant roles across PhotoBomb Events's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:
Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to General.
STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.
Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked £16,169 - £26,823 bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.
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