
Marketing
Marketing Assistant (Apprentice or Graduate)
DriveWorks HQ, Warrington, United Kingdom
Monday to Friday, 9am-5:30pm
Who we are
We’re an award-winning international technology company based in Thelwall, South Warrington, and we’re hiring! Our automation software is sold to businesses in over 50 countries worldwide through our global network of resellers. It’s transforming our customers’ sales and manufacturing processes and improving customer experience. It’s a great market to develop and hone your marketing skills.
Our technology drives our business too. We use automation to help us work smarter. We make sure everyone has the right tools to do an excellent job, in a fun and supportive environment that encourages learning and development, allowing everyone to thrive.
The role
In this role, you’ll work as part of a creative and productive marketing team. We work with our resellers, ensuring they have the content and resources needed to promote our products. We also plan, execute and review our own content strategy, sharing our brand with our international community, tracking what works, and coming up with new ideas to make a difference.
You’ll work alongside and learn from a team of supportive marketing professionals, as well as the wider DriveWorks team. Your main responsibilities will include:
- Writing monthly email newsletters to our global customer base.
- Creating graphics and content for social channels, email campaigns, etc.
- Helping to maintain our websites, including our user portal.
- Taking ownership of our events listings.
- Supporting the marketing team in providing content to our reseller network.
- Supporting the DriveWorks team in providing content and resources to our community of users worldwide.
About you
You must be reliable, resourceful, highly organised and an excellent communicator, both written and verbal. We are looking for someone who pays attention to detail, who can think creatively and who will work to finish a task. As long as you can demonstrate you can grasp new concepts quickly and are keen to learn, formal marketing qualifications aren’t necessary. A minimum education level of A-levels is required.
We will support an apprentice through a level 3 or above apprenticeship with a local provider.
A degree is required to join our graduate training scheme.
Knowledge of social media platforms and being proficient in the use of Microsoft applications such as Word and Excel are essential. The ability to use Canva would be advantageous.
Your attitude, aptitude and ability are all really important to us.
What we can offer you
- Excellent training and development opportunities – if you want to learn, you can.
- Work with the latest technology in a picturesque setting on nature’s doorstep with free parking.
- A supportive environment where your voice is heard and your individuality is celebrated.
We mean it when we say your work/life balance is important to us. We have flexible working hours, and you can work from home 1-2 days per week.
We’ve thought about the little things to make your working day run smoothly – our cupboards are stocked with condiments, there’s butter and milk in the fridge, fruit available throughout the day, and freshly brewed coffee on tap.
We listen to our users so we can deliver great software for customer success, and we are committed to our team.
We’re the proud recipients of 2 prestigious Queen’s Awards, one for our Innovative Technology and one for our International Trade success.
How to apply
Send your CV and a short cover letter to careers@driveworks.co.uk. We promise to do our best to reply to every application as fast as we can, please be aware that we may receive a high number of applications which can mean our replies are slower than we’d like. We may close this vacancy early depending on the number of applicants so don’t delay, apply today!
Good luck and thank you for taking the time to apply!
We have a legal responsibility to ensure our people have the right to live and work in the UK. If we make an offer of employment, we will need to check that you are eligible to work in the UK before you start work.