Marketing Manager

The Client: 

Our client is an independent, award-winning adventure travel company, running trips for over 25 years, using expertise and first-hand knowledge of selected destinations to carefully craft small group and tailor-made itineraries. They believe sustainable and immersive travel can be a powerful force for good; breaking down barriers, dispelling myths and bringing people from different cultures and communities together.

The Role: 

We are looking for a driven, travel-loving marketeer to take the next steps in their career and step up to a Marketing Manager. The focus is to find a capable person with great experience and skills and give them the tools and support to help grow into the next stages of their career. 

The Day to Day:

• Work together with the Head of Marketing to help create and deliver an annual marketing plan.
• Manage events including trade shows, company talks, press releases.
• Write copy for and oversee the design and print of ad-hoc offline items including brochures, direct mail and in-house magazines.
• Come up with ways to increase repeat business from clients including the company loyalty scheme.
• Assess and improve customer communications and CRM at all stages from initial enquiry to booking and welcome home email.
• Respond to PR requests and come up with ideas to increase coverage.
• With the Head of Marketing, come up with marketing strategies to increase sales in American and Australian markets.
• Help proofread marketing material.
• When required, write content for the website to help with SEO.
• Assist the rest of the marketing team as and when required, including helping with the creation of newsletters, social or web content.
• Conduct competitor research and benchmarking.
• Together with the Head of Marketing, help manage and build successful relationships with external suppliers such as brand and media agencies.
• Attend trade shows and functions when required.
• Keep up to date with the latest trends in the industry

The Ideal Candidate: 

• Ideally 4+ years in marketing with proven results in increasing sales, creating and managing marketing plans
• Experience with managing events and PR
• Experience in copywriting for online and offline media
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and proofreading skills
• Creative thinker with strong analytical skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Self-starter and able to work in a team
• Experience managing internal and external partners

The Small Print: 

• £40,000
• Hybrid- 1 day per week in Office, 4 WFH 
• Opportunity to attend Fam Trips 
• Training and career development 
• 22 days holiday per year 
• Cycle 2 work scheme
• Company Pension (3% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution)
• Regular team socials