BD & Marketing Assistant Princess St, Manchester M2 4EW, UK Architecture

Location: Hybrid / Princess St, Manchester M2 4EW, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Architecture | Architecture
Salary: Negotiable salary

About Us

AHR is a multi-award winning architecture and building consultancy practice. Based on our strong heritage and breadth of services, we provide imaginative solutions to make a positive contribution for our clients, society and the built environment.

Our people make us who we are – we are a people business and want to create a welcoming and supportive environment where all can flourish. We see diversity as a strength which creates fresh perspectives and generates new ideas.

We enjoy what we do and are determined to do an outstanding job. We deliver best when working in teams. Our culture is a product of the combined mindsets and behaviours of our people.

The Role

We are looking to find a BD and Marketing Assistant to join our Central Marketing team in a role to support with the delivery of high-quality bid submissions and implement marketing communication activities.

This role will include both written and graphics work across both bids and marketing. You will need to be comfortable with copywriting tasks and working with the Adobe Creative Suite, especially InDesign.

AHR’s Central Marketing team is based in our Manchester office and supports the practice across twelve services, eleven sectors and nine offices, providing marketing and business development.

Your Skills and Experience

• A minimum of two years experience in a similar role
• Excellent copywriting skills with the ability to rework technical content for a wider audience
• Able to communicate effectively in verbal, written and design formats using appropriate media for different audiences both internally and externally
• Proficient in InDesign, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, wider experience of Adobe Creative Suite is essential and ideally experience of Premier Pro
• Attention to detail is essential to ensure that any material generated is grammatically and visually correct, free of spelling errors, on brand and conveys the correct message
• Good team working and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with people at all levels
• Excellent organisation skills with ability to co-ordinate multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to work within brand guidelines and with pre-determined templates

Key Responsibilities

• Support on bid submissions in response to pre-qualification questionnaires and invitation to tenders including creating organograms, CVs, presentations, capability statements and case studies
• Assist in creating written bid responses by turning technical knowledge and thoughts into compelling copy
• Assist in keeping the bid toolkit up to date
• Write and produce all elements of social media posts across our LinkedIn and Instagram channels, as well as post the content
• Create graphics and video content and support with podcasts
• Support with the creation of digital marketing collateral including eshots and web pages
• Support with AHR events, creating invitations, tracking acceptances, creating badges, photography and video to capture the event, event write ups etc.
• Undertake research and market study of potential clients, markets and projects as required
• Assist with internal communications including keeping intranet pages up to date and writing news articles
• Work with the central marketing team to bring new ideas and proposals to the team to help keep the marketing content fresh and compelling
• Provide general support to the Sales Director and Central Marketing team on general administrative as well as business development and marketing-related activities

What we offer you

• Salary: Competitive salary based on experience
• Working Hours: 37 hours per week (hybrid working)
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays, increasing with service
• Support with career progression and education
• Paid professional memberships
• BUPA Health Cash Plan
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Discretionary bonus scheme

Our full benefits package can be seen on the AHR careers site.

This is an excellent opportunity to join our highly creative and ambitious team. You will be part of an innovative, design-led progressive practice.

AHR is an equal opportunities employer, we do not discriminate on any grounds other than ability to carry out the job role. If you require any adjustments to make the recruitment process easier, please let us know.

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