Marketing Assistant - Institutional

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What’s in it for you?  

We're looking for an ambitious individual who will relish being part of our institutional marketing team. In this role you'll support the capital raising activity for multiple funds across the globe.  

Reporting into our Senior Marketing Manager, this role forms part of a growing Institutional Marketing team, which sits as part of Octopus’ Global Institutional Distribution Team. This team has over 15+ distribution professionals who work across multiple international markets. 

This is an exciting role for an ambitious, talented marketer in the early stages of their career, to work in a fast paced, entrepreneurial company. The role will be responsible for delivering marketing in support of our global institutional distribution strategy. 

What will you be doing?  

• Work closely with the Senior Marketing Manager to support with the setting, project management, execution and roll out of campaigns including defining targeting, creating content, deciding on the channel mix and creating promotional assets. 

• Assist with new and periodic updates to marketing content including presentation decks, case-for documents, and teasers helping to ensure all our content aligns to our distribution strategy and messaging.

• Manage BAU website updates through to production, as well as the creation and delivery of regular stakeholder email campaigns.

• Help manage campaigns through to execution in conjunction with our centralised marketing teams, as well as working with our Comms and Content teams to ensure that media and thought leadership content is remarketed on our digital channels. 

• Report against key KPIs and take learnings into future programmes. 

• Help ensure all our activity is financially compliant. 

• Be a gatekeeper of quality – create best-in-market content whilst demonstrating attention to detail. 

✅ Experience as a marketer, or a relevant marketing or finance qualification. 

✅ Good understanding of current socio-economic themes  

✅ Content marketing knowledge and interest 

✅ Great organisational and project management skills and ability to work to deadlines, multitask and provide meticulous attention to detail 

✅ Good at building and managing relationships with a range of stakeholders 

✅ Positive, tenacious and can-do approach. Proactive and energetic approach to marketing 

✅ Ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team, and willingness to 'pitch in' as required in a rapidly growing organisation and a large marketing function 

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. What’s the worst that can happen?  

This role will evolve as we grow and develop. So, if you are looking for a challenge in a fast paced and dynamic business, we can deliver on that. 

What we offer

💰 A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan 
✈️ Untracked holiday 
🏡 Hybrid working – most of our people spend 3 days a week in the office 
⚓ Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Wellness Cloud, Digital GP, Shout & more 
👪 Up to 6 months paid parental leave regardless of gender 
❤️ Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection 
🏥 Private medical insurance for you and your family 
🚗 Electric vehicle leasing 

Our Values 
At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.   

We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.