Marketing Executive - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Marketing Executive

Grade 6 - £30,619 - £35,308

Corporate Service Group / Accommodation, Catering and Events

Contract Type - Full time - 35 hours per week, Open Ended (Permanent)


Are you an experienced Marketing professional looking for a fresh challenge? This is a fantastic to opportunity to join Accommodation, Catering and Events department at what is an exciting time for the University department.


The University of Edinburgh, through its Accommodation, Catering and Events (ACE) department, manages a large portfolio of hotels, venues, student and seasonal accommodation, university catering outlets and two nurseries.


You will be responsible for:

  • To provide the most effective, high quality marketing service for ACE, the job holder, in conjunction with Head of Branding, Marketing and Communication, will develop marketing and communications plans for the key areas within ACE.
  • Plan, coordinate and manage the execution of tasks set out in the marketing and communications plans to ensure stringent timescales are met.
  • Manage third parties to deliver on ACE's marketing and communications plans. This will include booking advertising space, organising public relations and sponsorship activities.
  • Responsible for communicating to and with a broad range of people at various levels, internal and external to the University, therefore developing relationships with key internal and external stakeholders is imperative to promote the student and commercial university brands.

Your skills and attributes for success:

  • Educated to degree/equivalent standard or relevant experience of marketing
  • Experience in the production of both online and printed marketing materials
  • Ability to think and analyse independently, communicate clearly and confidently, reconcile conflicting views and produce work of a consistently high standard across all media
  • Strong organisational and project management skills
  • High standards of written and oral presentation, including good copy writing and proof reading skills
  • Strong and assertive communication skills
  • Excellent communications skills and ability to manage relationships with internal clients and external agencies and suppliers
  • Ability to interact and manage relationships with colleagues across the departments

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As valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more.

Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits.


The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.


Interviews will be held w/c 21 August 2023
Before the interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role.

International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.


About us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow's greatest challenges.

Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.


About the team


Accommodation, Catering and Events (formerly Accommodation Services) provides catered and self-catered residential accommodation for over 10,000 students, including community and welfare support through its Residence Life service.

We also operate 17 cafes and a range of other catering products to students and staff across the University estate.

Under our commercial brand, Edinburgh First, we deliver hotel accommodation options to around 200,000 guests each year plus an extensive selection of conference, catering and event services to over 2,000 events.

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