Company: Applaud Web Solutions Ltd
Position: Permenant
Reference: Connect
Salary:
Closing Date: 31 Dec 2009

Description:

Applaud are looking for a talented Marketing Graduate to join our expanding team. Think you’ve got what it takes to shine in this award winning company? We’d love to hear from you.

Marketing Executive

This diverse role will take an active day-to-day role in developing and delivering our marketing strategy, working closely with the management to dovetail sales & product strategy.

Ideally you graduated in the last two years. You should have a positive outlook, be enthusiastic and innovative in your ideas and approach. You must be well organised and capable of working on your own initiative without constant supervision. The responsibilities of the role are varied from regular activities to projects such as event organisation, branding and design related work for our marketing collateral.

This is a role with great potential to expand and your success will have a direct influence on company growth, and longer term your rewards can grow tethered to your success.

Candidates with experience of using creative tools like Adobe Creative Suite & Camtasia will be at an additional advantage. We also see great potential in networking and in our online presence, including through social networking techniques, so people with some experience in these areas would also be at an advantage.

The company:

Applaud are a successful 8 year old software development company with offices in Newcastle and Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough is the technical and creative centre where we develop our range of off-the-shelf web based applications, and design and develop customer solutions. We’re Microsoft ISV partners and all our solutions utilise Microsoft technologies including .NET & SQL Server.

Our flagship web application platform “Vestri” was a recent award winner at the North East Digital Awards, and is the basis of all our current and foreseeable products, covering content & document management, extranets, intranets, enterprise social networking, electronic forms & workflow, KPI reporting and risk management tools.

Key responsibilities will include:

* Market research – identifying competition, niche markets

* Assist in further developing strategy

* Manage our online presence – regularly updating our website (not programming), issuing press releases, stimulation of our online networking, online campaigns

* Working with other staff to organisation events – including shows, social events, seminars etc

* Able to speak to an audience and present our message

* Investigating and developing ideas for innovative ways to get our name and products exposure – not just through paid advertising

* Organise and produce marketing collateral

* Produce white papers

* Produce public announcements and press releases

* Research partnership opportunities, develop & deliver partner strategy, and monitor partner recruitment

* Research and enter the company into relevant accreditations & awards

* Produce standard templates and ensure that all our output is of high quality, from letterheads and business cards, through any media coverage, web, collateral and USPs etc.

This is a challenging role in a fast moving industry, but we think we can offer you the chance to really shine.

You should be self motivated, able to work to deadlines, be flexible and adaptable, presentable and able to speak to customers. We’re a close team and expect everyone to take ownership for what they do, showing initiative and to contribute to improving the way we do things. We offer flexibility in working hours and expect it in return when deadlines call – this isn’t always a 9 to 5 job. If we all do well, we all share in the rewards.

The position is primarily based at our Middlesbrough offices, with occasional travel required to customer sites or our Newcastle office.

Initial salary is £14,000 p.a. which will be reviewed after 6 months.

Please send CVs and a short cover letter, together with some example work to:

Paul Sheperia
Technical Director
Applaud Web Solutions
South Tees Business Centre
Enterprise Court
Middlesbrough
TS6 6TL

Or email psheperia@applaud.uk.com

Twitter.com/paulsheperia

No agencies or recruitment consultants thank-you.

via Jobs in Digital – Codeworks Connect.