Business Development Assistant

We’re hiring a Business Development Assistant to join our team.

What you’ll do:

• Research market trends, demographics, pricing strategies, and other relevant information that helps managers and directors develop marketing plans
• Analyses surveys, polls, and other market research to look for patterns and trends
• Conducting regular competitor research
• Creates graphs, reports, and detailed data analysis using computer software
• Delivers reports on research findings through written documents and verbal presentations
• Assists in creating promotional materials, including brochures, blogs, marketing copy, etc.
• Provides fact-checking, copy-editing, and formatting assistance during the creation of mailers, coupons, website content, and other promotional materials
• Organises and plans the production of all major marketing materials by working closely with printers, sponsors, and other involved parties
• Helps to plan promotional events
• Assisting in being the voice on social media including daily posts, live tweeting, responding and escalating as necessary on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, blogs and LinkedIn and staying engaged in the conversation
• Assist in execution of new initiatives to help grow the social fan base across all of our platforms
• Be current across all new emerging technologies and social communities
• Using social media to advertise services and brand with the creative team
• Manage the social media calendar creating posts and marketing material content to pass over to the creative team for design
• Build relationships with external brands and generate leads for prizes to give away across social media platforms to widen our audience base
• Any other task as required by the business

What you’ll need:

• Experience in sales, marketing or related field
• Strong communication skills and IT fluency
• Ability to manage complex projects and multi-task