• Location: Hybrid from our Winchester office with frequent travel
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
• Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum + annual bonus scheme & enhanced benefits package
• Interview date: Tuesday 30th April at our Winchester office

We are a vibrant, dynamic business who are proud to design, build, and create high-quality homes with a focus on independent later living for the over 60's. Our developments are beautifully designed offering stunning community living. We offer our customers the flexibility to purchase, rent, or rent-to-buy our properties, with a current portfolio of some 1100 homes across 40 communities nationwide.

Our exciting plans have enabled us to create a new opportunity for an experienced Marketing Executive, with property or hospitality related sector experience to join us...

About the role

You will be instrumental in delivering on the marketing strategies for all of our established sites. Success in this role will be through swift and efficient project management, along with a keen eye for detail and the ability to build great relationships with the Sales teams, customer operations teams and residents.

• Manage content across our website and ensure this is up-to-date and as engaging as possible
• Continually monitor and update listings across property portals (Rightmove, Zoopla, etc) and identify opportunities to improve the quality of the listings
• Manage the photography of our developments and homes, liaising with photographers, assisting on photoshoots and updating the photo library
• Work closely with the wider marketing team to create inspiring stories from our communities which can be used across campaigns in print and digital
• Creation of weekly marketing updates to sales and wider company on recent marketing activities
• Assist with the implementation of signage strategies, including directional signage, hoarding and site signage to ensure site presentation standards are met and drive customer enquiries
• Support on marketing events, coordinating the event with team members and ensuring events achieves their objectives
• Assist with producing sales and marketing collateral such as brochures, floorplans, leaflets ensuring brand guidelines are adhered to throughout all activity
• Assist with the briefing of print and digital campaigns and marketing materials to deliver on marketing strategies

About you

You'll be an experienced marketeer with a background gained within a professional services marketing team or agency. You'll have managed multiple projects with differing priorities and stakeholders and you'll be highly creative with an excellent eye for detail. Experience of, or an interest in property would be a bonus!

You'll have:

• Great project management and organisation skills
• Excellent communication skills
• A keen eye for detail and reviewing marketing collateral and content
• Proactive approach and keenness to take on new tasks and responsibilities
• Ability to complete work tasks to deadlines and with excellent attention to detail
• Enjoy working as part of a busy, professional team

We use Google Workspace so knowledge of G-Suite would be an advantage

Must haves

• At least two years solid marketing experience at co-ordinator or executive level is essential
• Experience gained within a professional industry sector, property or related is a distinct advantage
• Right to live and work in UK with full UK driving licence and own vehicle

Your benefits & Rewards

This is a full time permanent role offering a basic salary of up to £35,000 per annum.

You'll be based from our Winchester office but we support hybrid working so you'll be able to work from home part of the week. This role will require frequent travel across our sites (we'll reimburse your travel / fuel expenses) and regional offices so a full UK drivers licence and own vehicle is essential.

Employees also enjoy a wealth of benefits, including:

• Annual company bonus scheme
• Enhanced annual leave
• Health cash plan
• Virtual GP
• Contributory pension scheme with additional employer contribution,
• Holiday buying scheme
• Professional subscriptions
• Discounts portal, GymFlex, Cycle2Work scheme
• Refer a friend scheme and access to internal opportunities

If you have the skills we are looking for and are looking for a rewarding new role then apply today, we'd love to hear from you!

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and we do not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us. As an equal opportunities employer, Lifestory welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. In line with UK Immigration and Employment Law, only applicants eligible to live and work in the UK need apply