Marketing Assistant

Lancaster, Lancashire, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableEntry LevelPermanent

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end IDL product marketing, balancing product understanding, content creation, and awards for awareness and pipeline.

  • Own cross-channel campaigns and digital presence to drive awareness and lead generation for IDL products and services.
  • Plan, create, and optimise content and assets across blogs, landing pages, podcasts, PPC, and social channels.
  • Monitor competitors, identify sector award opportunities, and manage IDL Learner Awards and brand visibility.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Deliver integrated marketing campaigns aligned with Ascentis standards and regulatory requirements.
  • Support the delivery of the IDL marketing and growth strategy.
  • Build a strong understanding of IDL products and services to support targeted marketing initiatives.
  • Monitor competitor activity, identify sector award opportunities, and contribute to brand visibility and credibility through award submissions.
  • Own key initiatives such as the IDL Learner Awards, coordinating, promotion, and impact.
  • Manage and grow IDL’s digital presence (social media channels, website content, email marketing campaigns).
  • Plan and deliver engaging content, schedule campaigns, and optimise performance to drive awareness, engagement, and lead generation.
  • Develop creative assets and copy across channels (blogs, landing pages, podcasts, PPC).
  • Maintain high-quality, consistent brand messaging; ensure materials adhere to brand guidelines and are reviewed/updated.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to produce resources, support product launches, and ensure collateral remains fresh.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 GCSEs (Grade 9–4)
  • Strong communication skills
  • Solid IT skills, including Microsoft Office

Preferred

  • Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (design)
  • Video content creation
  • Understanding of social media and digital marketing channels (hands-on experience desirable)

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays, birthday day off, closure days gifted during the Christmas period, increased annual leave with long service and an Annual Leave Purchase Scheme (up to a maximum of 43 days)
  • Competitive pension benefits, including a salary sacrifice scheme
  • Access to Informal Flexibility, allowing you to flex your working times and location where viable
  • Incremental service benefits as a family-friendly employer, including enhanced Maternity, Neonatal, Paternity, Shared Parental, Adoption Leave and Pay, Sick Pay, Life Insurance, and Paid Compassionate Leave
  • Access to state-of-the-art office and break facilities, such as bean-to-cup coffee machine, vending machine, pool table, Xbox, outdoor seating, dressing room (with access to hair dryers, straighteners, airers, shower facilities), Harry Potter reading room, employee library and more
  • Free parking, locked bike storage shed
  • Access to car electric charging points (charges payable by employee)
  • Tailored learning and development opportunities
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
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We make companies flow, inside and out.Ascentis is a digital strategy and execution firm that helps organisations regain clarity, rhythm and coherence in the way they work. We simplify what’s become overcomplicated, align systems with people, and turn strategy into something that actually gets built.Most companies don’t fail because of a lack of ambition, but because complexity eats their time, their focus, and their energy. That’s where we step in. Ascentis rebuilds the logic behind how companies operate, through smarter processes, clearer tools, and teams that finally move together.We’re not an agency, not a consultancy, not a dev shop. We’re what was missing between the three, a structure that listens deeply, questions everything, and delivers solutions that last.Our method is simple but never simplisticQuestion, remove, optimise, automate.When a project ends, everything breathes again. The systems align, decisions make sense, and people regain time and meaning in their work.We believe technology is not the product, it’s the lever.We build systems that work, so people can too.

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