Job description
This is a 6-12 month placement suitable for an under-graduate or post-graduate.
Applications close Friday 9th June 2023, with a planned start date in June/July 2023.
Distinction is an exciting, ambitious digital product studio based in Nottingham. We create high-quality, often business-critical, digital products for start-ups, scale-ups and disruptors throughout the UK.
This placement role is for a Marketing Executive to help us deliver on some of our plans.
As a Marketing Executive, you'll work closely with our CMO to deliver on our ambitious marketing strategy.
This will include things like:
- Planning and hosting events
- Creating content to support our marketing activities
- Researching prospects - both people and companies
- Being creative with messaging and outreach
- Creating website content
- Creating social media content
- Interviewing our team for podcasts, webinars, etc
Required Experience:
- Superb communication skills, both written and verbal
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to balance a varied workload and prioritise key activities
- Excellent organisation and planning skills
- A creative thinker with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Ability to think and act independently as well as collaboratively
- Open, honest and comfortable in giving and receiving constructive feedback
- A passion for the type of work we do at Distinction (please take a look at what we do)
- Lives and breathes our core values
- A desire to learn new skills
Why work for us?
Distinction is a busy, fun place to work, with ambitious plans to triple our size in the next two years. In addition to a competitive salary (verified by an external salary benchmarking company), we believe in providing meaningful benefits, including:
- Flexible working hours
- Remote working – as per our ‘works where’s best’ policy
- Generous holiday
- Contributory pension scheme
- Health and wellness programmes
- New, high-spec equipment
- Personal budget for learning, books, tech hardware and software
- Lots of opportunities to attend national and international conferences
- Enjoy savings on bikes and technology
- Tea, coffee, drinks fridge and fruit deliveries
- A busy social calendar with regular in-person and virtual socials, including Christmas and Summer parties (off-site)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We’re committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment, and we encourage applicants from minority backgrounds or LGBTQ+ communities. We promise that you’ll receive equal consideration for employment without regard to your age, race, religion, gender, or disability.
Recruitment Agencies
We prefer to recruit directly where possible, but we do work with a few select recruitment agencies who we feel have a good understanding of our business and the type of people we’re looking for. For this reason, please don’t contact us – we’ll contact you.