This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established, niche property consultancy working within the sales, marketing and research department of a friendly, professional office. Reporting to the associate director of sales and marketing your role within the business is to provide a reliable, responsible and in-depth research provision, further details can be found below.
Duties and responsibilities
Sales & Marketing
- Supporting the Associate Director – Sales and Marketing with specific projects, including development of new business opportunities and market research
- Developing and maintaining a potential customer database
- Monitoring and reporting on industry developments
- Preparing sales documents and assisting with pricing
- Collecting and analysing data for the industry benchmarking reports
- Preparing Google Analytics reports
- Assisting with seminar and conference programmes
- Assisting with sales calls
- Developing online content and managing Social Media channels
- Assisting with drafting and production of offline marketing material and proposals
- Supporting the team in the pitch process
- Obtaining periodic testimonials and approvals for PR initiatives
- Providing administrative support for all marketing and business development meetings to include objectives, agendas, briefing notes, attendees, action points, and minutes
Research
- Conducting extensive industry research through various online and other sources on a daily basis and communicating these across the business in an effective, efficient and clear format.
- Intensive and on-going analysis of competitor sales and marketing output and research publications.
- Planning, conducting and producing industry leading commercially focused benchmarking publications including:
- Sourcing and collating reliable industry data
- Analysis of data and production of multiple reports including compliance against industry standards
- Liaise with key contributors in the UK and abroad
- Production of in-depth report accurately detailing results including graphs, tables and diagrams to effectively illustrate results
- Presentation of results to key stakeholders.
- Provide comprehensive support to sales and marketing department including conducting industry research and additional tasks as and when required.
- Development of industry specific knowledge through regular industry event attendance, publications and research.
- Effective use of in-house specialist database system to produce reliable reports and information.
- Business development: Research potential new sales targets, production of report of findings and presentation to Sales and marketing director.
- Close monitoring and research into industry specific legislative changes
- Ad hoc marketing responsibilities including social media and website management, production of google analytics reports and analysis.
- Communication with external third parties including graphic design and Public relations agencies relating to the production, publication and promotion of research.
- Ad hoc research duties as required for other departments of the business.
- Additional ad hoc duties and responsibilities as deemed suitable by management.
Skills and competencies
- Experience producing in-depth, commercial research publications to a high standard
- Ability to source, analyse and collate data into effective and reliable reports
- Excellent standards of written and spoken English
- High levels of ICT skills including outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word.
- Previous experience using databases to harvest data and produce accurate reports
- Knowledge of managing multiple social media accounts
- Knowledge of business to business sales and marketing processes
- Excellent levels of numeracy
- Say, secure and confidential handling of data.
- Some awareness of commercial property sector would be beneficial
- High attention to detail
- Ability to work independently
- Efficient planning and organisational skills
- Ability to support project management
- Ability to work to a required timeframe and effective diary management skills