Marketing Assistant
Join our busy marketing team! We’re seeking an energetic Marketing Assistant with good relevant experience and real brand enthusiasm. Grow with us in this key support role.
Who are you?
You’ve got a basic foundation in marketing or social media and you’re looking for a role where you can truly grow your skills in a fast-paced luxury retail environment.
Who are we?
Penelope Chilvers is a British heritage, footwear-led lifestyle brand; creating timeless, comfortable and enduring pieces for women who value style, comfort and real-life wearability.
Female-founded in 2002, Penelope Chilvers is rooted in the spirit of adventure, Spanish craftsmanship and a life lived between town, country and travel. We craft luxurious yet purposeful footwear, with growing lifestyle categories, designed to move effortlessly through real life, offering comfort, confidence and enduring style season after season.
What's the role?
This role is ideal for someone just above entry level who has a grasp of marketing basics and is eager to develop their career in a fast-paced environment. Working directly alongside our Senior Marketing Manager, you will provide vital day-to-day support to keep our campaigns, social media, and admin moving smoothly. This is a brilliant opportunity to learn the ropes of multi-channel marketing gain hands-on experience, and build your confidence in a supportive team.
Key responsibilities:
· Calendar and Roadmap support – support the Senior Marketing Manager in creating and maintaining seasonal marketing roadmap documentation, ensuring activity remains aligned with the business critical path, product drops and campaign content.
· Maintain the Marketing Calendar – keeping top-level messaging and channel activity accurate, current and clearly coordinated.
· Asset & Copywriting Assistance – support paid, email and affiliate channel activity through asset briefing and copywriting, working with the Senior Marketing Manager, agencies and ecommerce team as required.
· Visual Merchandising Guidelines – support the Senior Marketing Manager with store visual merchandising guidelines and their timely communication to relevant teams.
· Social Media – maintain the organic social planning platform and ensure posts are mapped accurately to the top-level marketing calendar. Own day-to-day organic social execution, including asset briefing, copywriting, scheduling, product tagging and basic post coordination.
· Marketing Channel Reporting – gathering accurate inputs, maintaining reporting information and helping to identify useful performance insights.
· Team Collaboration – work closely with brand, creative, ecommerce, and retail teams to help keep project briefs moving forward.
What we’re looking for:
· Around 6-12 months of experience in a basic marketing, internship or social media role (or strong project experience during your studies)
· Great organisational skills – someone who loves a checklist and keeping things orderly.
· Strong communication skills, in particular someone comfortable writing short, engaging captions and basic copy.
· Familiarity with social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok etc) from a business or brand perspective.
· A proactive, helpful attitude, flexibility and a genuine willingness to learn.
Right to Work: You must already possess the right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
Employment Terms: This is a full time position and will be offered as a 12 month fixed term contract.
What we offer:
· Direct mentorship and support from an experienced Senior Marketing Manager
· A friendly, collaborative team environment
· Hybrid working flexibility (at least 3 days in the office per week)
· Generous employee uniform allowance and staff discount
· 33 days paid holiday per year (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
· A healthcare cash plan, enhanced employer pension contributions and life assurance
Application Deadline: There is no fixed deadline for applications as this is a rolling recruitment process. We will assess candidates continuously and close the position as soon as we secure our final-stage interviewees. We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
- Department
- Marketing
- Role
- Marketing Assistant
- Location
- Studio Head Office
Colleagues
Studio Head Office
Our Benefits
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🏄🏻♀️ 33 days paid holiday
We value that you get more time with your family and friends. Therefore we offer everybody 33 days paid holiday (including Bank Holidays).
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👢 Generous product allowance
We want our team to walk in PC and be advocates of the brand so each team member gets between 2-4 pairs of PC boots and/or shoes per year!
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💓 Life assurance
Offering our employees peace of mind that their named beneficiary will receive 4x the employee’s annual salary should the unthinkable happen.
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👩🏻⚕️ Healthcare cash plan
Helping our employees to cover various healthcare costs such as routine dental and optical care, prescriptions, complementary and alternative therapies; as well as help with getting specialist consultations, diagnostic tests and scans, counseling and health screening etc.
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💰 Pension
Helping our employees plan for the future, we offer a 5% employer contribution as part of our auto enrol pension scheme.
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🛍️ Salary Extras
Providing our team with a little extra help to make their salaries go further - Salary Xtras is a web portal offering discounted shopping, holidays, cinema & gym membership etc; cycle2work scheme; travel loans to spread the cost of commuting and an employee assistance service for unlimited access to specialist support e.g. legal and financial advice.
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🕺 Regular social & team events
We try to get together regularly to celebrate our successes as a team.
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🕐 Flexible working hours
We value work-life balance highly, therefore we try to be flexible with working hours where possible and many roles operate on a remote or hybrid basis - whatever works best for the individual, team and the company.
Workplace Culture
We encourage every employee to understand the importance of their contribution to the overall success of the business. Everyone has a role to play and we encourage regular performance reviews to help people to reach their full potential.
We all take responsibility for meeting the requirements of our individual and team roles and we don’t shy away from going above and beyond the call of duty when a situation warrants it, or when our colleagues need our help.
We acknowledge and respect that we are all different. We aim to build strong personal relationships and we value the different skills and attributes that make up a diverse and effective team.
We are all passionate about the areas in which we work and strive to be the best we can be in our individual fields. But that doesn’t come at the cost of stepping on each other to get there.
We care about the company and we care about each other and we believe in maintaining a creative, informal, friendly and engaging working environment.