Marketing Assistant

Do you have a passion for Digital Marketing?

As Marketing Assistant at Harvest your role will be to help grow our brand through digital marketing alongside print (Brochure / Flyer design). Duties will involve developing and managing all our digital platforms for both social media and online trading as well as enhancing our online presence, working alongside our purchasing department to promote products, and producing great industry insights for our sales team.

Harvest has been trading since 1995 and have grown to be one of the largest Food Service providers in the South of England, recently joined the Caterfood Buying Group, we continue to grow as a business.

With a broad clientele base covering restaurants, hotels, schools, and hospitals as well as many other sectors we are renowned for offering first-class service levels to our customers.

Our product range is extensive and includes high-quality butchery, frozen, ambient, and fresh food, as well as a range of non-food sundries and beverages.

We invite you to our website: www.harvestfinefoods.co.uk to get to know all things Harvest.

Salary: £25,000 -30,000 dependant on experience

Location: Office based in Totton, Southampton, hybrid working available after probation

Hours: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week (excluding 30-minute lunch break)

Role Essentials

• Lead marketing campaigns, as well as monitoring and analysing campaign performance.
• The successful candidate will be tasked with leading marketing campaigns, as well as monitoring and analysing campaign performance.
• Keeping the company website up to date in content and style
• Proactively manage web content and link to trends
• Ensure the online trading platform and app is easy to use & customer friendly
• Promote local products through our online trading
• Consistently develop our T/O trading via online ordering
• Manage our various social media platforms
• Drive up followers for each social platform in line with plan.
• Ensure the brand standards are maintained through our communication

Who we’re looking for

• Competent in digital marketing together with brochure design.
• Experience with Website maintenance
• A self-starter who can bring new ideas forward
• Knowledge of Canva or similar
• Experience with Hootsuite, mailchimp or similar email marketing tools
• Comfortable with InDesign
• Strong and adaptable communication skills
• A passion for Marketing with confidence to bring your ideas to the table.
• Marketing experience in the food or drink industry (desirable)
• Commercially minded, data-driven, with a proactive approach, and a strong willingness to learn.
• A great eye for detail
• Extremely organised

The Benefits

We offer a great working environment : Competitive salary : 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays) : Amazing discount on our products : Company pension scheme : Company Laptop : Free hot drinks and fruit in our offices

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £25,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Totton: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Do you have a passion for food (cooking, food culture, or general passion)?

Experience:

• Canva (or similar): 1 year (required)
• InDesign: 1 year (required)
• Email Marketing Tools such as Mailchimp?: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person