Marketing Assistant
At Eakin Healthcare we put our patient at the heart of everything we do.
Fifty years ago, it all started with one man’s mission: pharmacist, Tom George Eakin. He saw his patients struggling with leaking urostomy pouches and decided enough was enough. He got to work and formulated what would become the game-changing, eakin Cohesive® seal.
Fast forward to today, and we’re still keeping it in the family. We’ve grown a lot since then, both organically and through acquisitions. We now have a team of over 700 colleagues across three manufacturing sites and 12 sales and distribution centres. We’re making a difference in three therapeutic areas:
- Ostomy
- Respiratory
- Surgical
We’re proud to export our innovative products to over 60 countries through a network of 40 distributors plus our own offices in Japan, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg.
We’re good at what we do – come and join us and you can benefit from:
- Blended Working
- Bonus
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28)
- Option to buy holiday days
- Wellbeing Programme
- Health Cash Plan
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Referral Scheme
- Long Service Awards
- Free Parking
ABOUT THE ROLE
Are you passionate about marketing and looking to make a real impact? Join us as our Marketing Assistant and help drive the growth of our innovative respiratory product brands: Amsorb Plus, AquaVENT and NeoFlow. This hands-on role offers a fantastic opportunity to work with a wide range of talented people across our business. If you have great interpersonal skills and a positive attitude, we want to hear from you!
We’ll need you to:
- Help us build strong clinical brands for our acute care and neonatal product ranges.
- Work closely with our sales teams and distribution partners to implement agreed marketing strategies within our key markets.
- Support our busy exhibition schedule making sure our team has everything they need to shine at events.
- Boost our social media presence with engaging and accurate posts, paired with eye-catching images. Share your creative ideas with the team!
- Dive into the numbers to help assess the return on investment for our marketing activities, providing insightful reports and feedback.
- Help to prepare training for our sales teams and business partners on positioning and messaging in each target market.
- Keep our marketing materials in top shape and readily available for our sales team and distribution partners.
- Assist with the development and monitoring of marketing budgets.
- Keep the wider team up to speed with analysis of the market, our customers and competitors.
- Help design and execute fun and effective customer engagement activities.
- Support the successful organisation, running and follow up of conferences, meetings and consumer experience days.
Other
- To adhere to the company’s Equal Opportunities policy and Dignity at work policy in all activities and to actively promote equality of opportunity wherever possible
- To be responsible for your own health and safety and that of your colleagues, in accordance with the company’s’ Health and Safety policy
- To adhere to the company’s Quality policy and Environmental policy
- To undertake other duties as may be reasonably required
KEY SKILLS
Essential
- Educated to degree level in marketing or business
- Excellent verbal & written ability
- Impeccable organisational skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Willingness to undertake some international travel
- Access to transport
Desirable
- Experience of using social media professionally
- Experience of organising exhibitions or events
- Experience of international marketing
- Experience of managing a project with a range of stakeholders
- 2nd language ability
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Internal
- Marketing team
- Sales teams
- Clinical engagement team
- Finance
External
- Business Partners & Distributors
- Printers
- Agencies & Suppliers
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Some travel may be required
COMPETENCIES
Customer Focus
Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer centric solutions.
Action Orientated
Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.
Collaborates
Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
Interpersonal Savvy
Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
Communicates Effectively
Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
Instils Trust
Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity.
Self-Development
Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.
Nimble Learning
Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
