Marketing Assistant

Your place of work would be our FOSS UK Runcorn office where you would be working alongside our existing internal sales team. Primarily you will be involved in planning & executing local marketing campaigns, to support our local growth targets. In addition, you would be the internal supporter for our external sales team. We strongly believe in Teamwork both within our Sales team and across the other departments in Foss UK, supporting each other to achieve our overall goals. The position reports directly to the Managing Director of Foss UK Ltd who will be activity involved in your development.,

• Running frequent local marketing campaigns to our existing client base
• Following up on leads generated & qualifying for our external sales team
• Supporting the external sales team with quotations and order processing
• Planning, organizing and attending UK/Ireland Trade Shows as needed
• Attendance at our annual Marketing Seminar in our Danish Innovation Centre
• Daily management of our social media channels
  
  This role calls for both solid professional capabilities and the ability to work well with others. The following competencies give an indication of what helps you thrive and make an impact.
We hope to see you bring:
• Energy and a "can do" attitude
• A formal Marketing qualification
• 2-3+ years experience working in a marketing role, ideally in Capital Equipment sales
• Some knowledge of the Agri-Food sector would be advantageous
• Commercial acumen and a confident approach to dealing with our customers
• Experience using Salesforce or a similar CRM system, ideally also SAP
• Marketing via a professional social media channel such as Linked In or others, If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to a purpose-driven organization, we would love to hear from you.
  
  Do you want to represent a global market leader? FOSS is the leading provider of food analytics solutions, trusted by the world's largest companies across food, agriculture, wine, and beer. We are on an exciting growth journey, expanding into new markets and continuously introducing innovative instruments and solutions. With sales offices in 34 countries and more than 70 distributors, we operate with a truly global mindset, rooted in the values of our founder, Nils Foss. Since 1956, we have pioneered new technologies with one clear principle: always keeping the customer at the center. If this resonates with you, read on!, FOSS is a family-owned global company which is celebrating its 70^th anniversary this year, locally we believe in the same family values. We look after our employees and are very proud of our staff retention with average seniority across the company of >10years. Employee long service awards are presented after every 5 years of service during our 3 times a year company events.
We welcome candidates who are seeking a challenging job which gives them room to develop within the company, with several of our local staff having moved internally within the global FOSS network., FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive and diverse culture. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo and age in your application. About FOSS Today, more than 8 billion people around the world are dependent on nutritional food. Tons of food being produced in a million different ways and under varying conditions, creating challenges all the way from field to fork. One of them, obviously, is the effect it has on climate change. FOSS helps the world's 100 biggest food companies, and more than 40,000 others around the world navigate exactly that with intelligent, data-driven and innovative analytical solutions. We are making sustainability a better business, and we're doing so as the global market leader in our field - improving food quality, minimizing food waste, ensuring food safety, and securing fair payment.