Growth Marketing Assistant at MMR Research Worldwide

Description

Want to help bring ideas and products to life?

We’re looking for a creative and passionate, Growth Marketing Assistant to join our growing South Africa Office.

About MMR

The MMR Group is a highly respected and successful collection of brands, providing marketing services to a wide range of corporate clients predominantly in the CPG arena. Services include consumer and sensory research, innovation consultancy, brand strategy, video production, digital design and marketing communications.

We employ over 520 people across the globe, delivering turnover of £50m with the ambition to grow to £200m. Our brands include:

• MMR Research: An industry-leading £40m consumer and sensory research agency, operating in 10 countries and partnering with more than half of the world’s top 100 CPG companies. They deliver consumer insight that helps brands to create and launch extraordinary products and brand experiences.

• Huxly:  A brand consultancy with a product lens, using the power of sensory and qualitative research to help brands ideate and develop winning strategies. 

• KICR Innovation:  A joint venture with FIS, KICR is focused on helping clients create disruptive innovation in the food and drink arena. With a vast network of development chefs and innovation experts to support across the entire process – from initial ideation to product development, manufacturing and launch.

• Ideal Insight:  An agile, creative video content production and social media management agency

• Together Agency:  An insight-led social, digital, packaging and creative brand marketing agency

The MMR Group has office locations in the UK, Netherlands, US, China, Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, South Africa, India and Colombia.

We’re a people-first company that prides itself on collaboration, honesty and mutual trust. That’s why in a recent all-company survey 80% of our employees stated they are happy and proud to work for MMR and 70% would recommend that their friends come and work for us!

We offer an open, dynamic, varied and non-hierarchical environment, where bespoke training is offered at every level. We also offer exciting secondment opportunities at our other global locations, as well as a selection of fantastic employee benefits.

Our Opportunity

The Growth Marketing Assistant is a B2B marketing role helping to develop and implement our growth marketing strategy across the MMR Group of companies. You will undertake a broad range of essential activities across campaigns, channels and platforms in order to ensure we deliver against business goals.

You will be looking to build your career in marketing and be highly self-motivated, organized and with high attention to detail. You will also have an analytical and creative streak – meaning you are able to come up with suggestions and new ideas for how to further develop the impact and effectiveness of our marketing. We believe great ideas can come from anyone and anywhere!

You will be data-driven and metrics-focused, able to easily pick up the processes and technology platforms you’ll use in your role, and feel free to suggest others that could improve the way we operate.

You will be joining a company with global growth aspirations and be working as part of a wider, truly global commercial and marketing team.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities will vary (we promise it will never be dull!) across campaign management, social media management and reporting/operations, but may include:

• Developing effective marketing emails through copywriting, scheduling and A/B testing

• Helping to copywrite and schedule organic and paid social posts

• Managing webinar and event guest lists, communicating with the relevant people internally

• Setting up paid media campaigns in advertising and paid social platforms according to briefs

• Assist with development of campaign plans

• Proofreading of event content, eBooks and blog posts

• Tracking and analysing marketing qualified leads, collating event statistics and feedback into post-campaign reporting

• Collating and analysing email marketing results

• Setting up automation rules, workflows, lists and reports in HubSpot to create a seamless customer experience

• Ensuring marketing investment versus budget is correctly tracked

• Liaising with designers and creative agencies to ensure creative assets are produced to high standard

• Weekly reporting of key marketing metrics from Google Analytics, Hubspot and other sources

• Contributing creative and innovative ideas to improve marketing effectiveness as part of the team

Requirements

You know you’re right for this role if you have…

• A Business or Marketing Services related degree

• Fluent spoken and written English, excellent communication skills and the ability to engage and influence

• Some experience or interest in B2B marketing

• A creative, analytical and inquisitive approach to marketing data

• Problem solving skills - able to identify the required deliverable/solution and the stages involved in getting there

• Strong attention to detail

• A quick learner, with a can-do attitude and enjoys working within a team

• Some knowledge of marketing tools such as Hubspot or other marketing automation, Linkedin Ads and/or other social media tools.

Benefits

What’s in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Culture: We are a people-first company that prides itself on collaboration, honesty and mutual trust. We’ve created an open, creative and non-hierarchical working environment. Not to mention the exciting secondment opportunities that are available across our global locations.

• Company Contribution:

Health Care Insurance - Employees will be covered under the Company’s Discovery Health Medical Scheme, from their start date, subject to the Discovery eligibility entry requirement.

Retirement Annuity Fund (RAF) - MMR will pay a contribution of 7% of your base salary to your RAF. (commence subject to you providing details of your retirement fund.)

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans with your wellbeing at the forefront, inclusive of -

• Learning & Development: Offering second to none training to ensure our clients are working with market experts, to support this training and personal development programs are offered at every level. Working with top FMCG companies and the largest brands on the market we’re learning with the best! Growth opportunities are unlimited with access and opportunity to collaborate with our partner video, innovation, marketing and brand consultancy companies too.

MMR Academy – Academy, a modular training programme that covers a whole host of topics from sensory, statistics, presentation skills, quantitative and qualitative methods, time management and many more.

Training Funding Scheme - MMR offers all full and part-time permanent employees the opportunity to participate in a Training Fund scheme where the company will sponsor employees for studies which directly contribute to the development of the business.

Here at MMR, we are about building a workplace for the future. We believe in equal opportunities and celebrate diversity. We’re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be natural, and be the best versions of themselves.