Marketing Assistant

We are looking for a Marketing Assistant to join our head office team in Macclesfield. This is an exciting new role for a marketeer starting out in their career! We want someone who loves food, has a passion for restaurants, cafés, and pub grub, and a keen eye for trends in the food and drink industry. Reporting to the Own Brand Marketing Manager, you’ll play a vital role in shaping and promoting our Own Brand products.

If you’re a proactive, organised team player with a can-do attitude and eager to dive into the world of B2B marketing, we’d love to hear from you!

In this role you will:

• Assist the Own Brand Marketing Manager to drive up demand for our five own brands: Chefs’ Selections, Chefs’ Selections Premium Collection, Eden Grove, Roast 440, and Clene Guard.
• Confidently plan, create, and post content across channels including Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, ensuring alignment with the brand’s tone of voice and objectives.
• Work with the Own Brand Marketing Manager to showcase our products at food and drink tradeshows across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland.
• Confidently engage with customers at tradeshows, discussing and promoting own brand products.
• Undertake general admin duties such as arranging travel and accommodation for events, completing all required paperwork for award entries and liaising with suppliers to ensure products are delivered on time for photo shoots.
• Support in the development of marketing materials, including presentations, and digital content.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of projects.
• Maintain and update the digital asset library and share news stories on the Members Portal where relevant
• Provide general marketing support to the wider team as and when required.

Key Skills and Requirements:

• An understanding of B2B marketing through either a relevant marketing qualification and/or work experience in a similar role would be beneficial.
• Experience of using social media in a professional capacity, including Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, with knowledge of TikTok being an advantage.
• Photoshop skills or experience of other graphic design tools would be advantageous.
• This role requires some travel to our member depots and tradeshows across the UK and Ireland. Therefore, a degree of flexibility is essential, a full clean driving licence and own vehicle would be an advantage.
• The ideal candidate will be confident, proactive, detail-oriented, and highly organised, with the ability to come up with creative ideas based on food and drink trends.

Salary and Benefits:

If you have the skills that we need for this junior position, we can offer you a competitive salary and benefits package which includes:

• Mobile phone allowance paid monthly
• 25 days of paid annual leave (rising to 28 days with service) plus bank holidays and your birthday off
• Flexible working dependent on business needs
• Discretionary annual bonus based on business performance
• Cycle to work scheme and Tech scheme
• A workplace pension plan
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Free parking

To Apply:

Please send your CV and a covering letter to careers@caterforce.co.uk by 17th January 2025. We will be in touch with all those who have been shortlisted, but unfortunately due to expected high volume of applicants we will not able to get back to everyone individually.

No agencies, thank you.