Are you ready to take the next step in your digital marketing career and be part of something truly impactful?

Markel is looking for a Digital Marketing Assistant to join our dynamic UK team. This is your chance to shape and spearhead innovative digital strategies that will help propel our company's growth and success to unparalleled heights!

What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realise our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special!

The opportunity:

It’s an exciting time to join Markel as our business grows, and we are looking for a Digital Marketing Assistant to join our UK Marketing team, (3 days in the office / 2 days working from home). The role can be based at either our Manchester or Leeds office.

The Marketing department within UK National Markets (UKNM) is a fun, impactful team of motivated and dedicated marketers covering the full marketing mix delivering innovative and bespoke insurance solutions to UK businesses, from charities and care organisations to providers of IT services and media companies.

In line with the business’s ambitious growth targets and its’ NMUK strategy the Marketing team restructured at the beginning of 2022, aligning itself to the key distribution channels within its’ UK business. The investment in the team is testament to the value the business places in the Marketing function and the key role it will play in achieving its growth objectives. This has created a number of exciting opportunities within the team, including a new role within the Marketing Services team, supporting the delivery of the NMUK Marketing plan. This role represents fabulous opportunity to forge an exciting career in Marketing.

Apply now and take the next step in your career with Markel

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting the Marketing Services team deliver the channel Marketing plans

• Ensuring the channel deliverables reflect the key Marketing messages and are implemented in a timely manner within budgetary controls

• Being an effective member of the Marketing Service team, working closely with the Content, Design, Event and Hospitality leads to deliver the plan

• Writing engaging copy including: advertising, website, social, email, storyboards and events

• Ensure that all collateral and communications are on brand

• Supporting the reporting and tracking of all Marketing activity and measurement of value

• Striving to deliver standard process across all activities

Our must haves:

• 2 + years digital marketing experience, either agency or in-house – website, email, SEO, Social Channels

• Experience of using HubSpot is essential!

• Agency or in-house candidates

• Experience in account and vendor management, including client and partner facing situations

• Experience in workstack / ticket system management for workload/ project management

• Experience in BAU / day-to-day reporting, collaborator & team awareness of performance and optimisations as agreed with wider digital team

• Experience with emarketing design, build, and reporting. Best practice. Understanding of automations and nurture sequences

• Social (LinkedIn and YouTube) design, build, management and reporting including organic & paid

• Website CMS management and page maintenance

• Experience with PPC and SEO

• Excellent organisational, communication and writing skills with strong attention to detail.

• Ability to perform well under pressure and work with team framework.

• Passion for building relationships and getting to know people and their needs, both digitally and in person.

• Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines and work on a number of projects at once.

• Desire to study for a Marketing qualification company supported and funded

Who we are:

Markel Corporation (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What’s in it for you:

• A great starting salary plus 10% annual bonus & strong benefits package…

• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave

• Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer

• There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we can provide the support needed to do just that!

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.

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