Communications and Marketing Officer

Communications and Marketing Officer
Head Office, Stoneleigh Park

About Us

Lantra is a leading awarding body for land-based industries in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. We develop quality training courses and nationally recognised qualifications, delivered through a network of training Provider Partners.

Working with a range of partners, we promote opportunities within the sector to an increasingly diverse audience. Each year, over 116,000 learners access our courses across the UK, addressing skills challenges and supporting businesses with innovative solutions.

Due to an exciting period of growth, we are now looking for a Communications and Marketing Officer to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 37.5 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of up to £34,000 per annum
- 25 days’ annual leave, increasing with service
- Defined contributory pension scheme or pension auto-enrolment scheme
- Employee assistance scheme
- Perkbox - employee benefits and wellbeing platform
- Medical cash plans
- Enhanced maternity and adoption pay
- Rewards for length of service
- Health and wellbeing events and initiatives
- Free voluntary day
- Employee rewards
- Free parking
- Free drinks

This is an inspiring opportunity for a creative marketing and communications professionals with Adobe CS skills to join our forward-thinking organisation dedicated to empowering land-based industries.

You will have the chance to showcase your creativity as you develop engaging content whilst gaining invaluable experience and developing and refining your skillset.

So, if you want to do more with your marketing and communications career, enhance your expertise and enable learning and development across the country, this is the role for you.

The Role

As a Communications and Marketing Officer, you’ll play a pivotal role in enhancing our brand presence and engaging diverse audiences nationwide.

Specifically, you will support the development, implementation, and monitoring of the marketing plan for the business. You will play a key role in supporting the marketing Lantra’s training products and qualifications to the land-based and environment sector.

You will position our organisation as the vendor of choice for skills development in the land-based and environment sector, whilst supporting the growth of sales for our training, qualifications and skills development products.

Additionally, you will:

- Help create and implement a unified marketing strategy to raise our profile
- Collaborate with Industry Heads on marketing plans
- Assist in establishing us as the top choice for industry training
- Research trends to keep us positioned as a "go-to" training provider
- Track and report on campaign effectiveness
- Help develop campaign-specific and general marketing content
- Work with the Communications team to achieve strategic marketing objectives

About You

To be considered as a Communications and Marketing Officer, you will need:

- Experience in implementing a marketing and communications strategy
- Experience of working on collateral designs for projects
- Experience of supporting the development and delivery of effective marketing programmes
- Experience of developing brand awareness and positioning
- Experience of working to budgets and targets
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite or similar design software
- Creativity with an eye for detail
- The ability to work well within a team environment as well as on own initiative
- A passion for marketing and communications
- A Further Education qualification or at least two years’ experience in marketing or communications

Other organisations may call this role Marketing Communications Executive, Marcomms Executive, Marketing Content Executive, Officer, Content Marketing Officer, Brand Communications Officer, or Brand Marketing Executive.

Webrecruit and Lantra are equal opportunities employers, value diversity, and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants. We believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you want to make a meaningful impact as a Communications and Marketing Officer, please apply via the button shown. You will need to submit a cover letter as part of your application, outlining your reasons for being interested in the role as well as sharing what you would bring to the role. Cover letters should be no more than one side of A4.

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