Marketing Assistant Contract Full Time Temporary

• Position:  Marketing Assistant – 3 month fixed term contract – immediate start
• Salary:  £26,000 – £28,000
• Location: Fully office based – 3 days a week in Brighton, 2 days a week in Crawley
• Hours:  Full time Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm
• Great company benefits and possible contract extensions

We’re hiring a proactive and creative Marketing Assistant for a 3‑month fixed‑term contract to support a global portfolio of international B2B events, media brands and awards.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with assistant‑level marketing experience, whether from an internship, placement, or first/second marketing role.

You’ll work across marketing campaigns that support brand visibility, event registrations, sponsorship sales and community engagement.

This role is to start in February 2026, is for a 3 month fixed term contract initially and will be working fully office based, three days a week in Brighton and two days a week in Crawley. Free parking is available in Crawley as well as a shuttle bus from Three Bridges Train station.

Marketing Assistant job duties:

• Support marketing activity across global B2B conferences, media brands and awards
• Drive registrations and create visibility for sponsorship sales
• Create engaging audience communications through email shots and social media posts
• Update websites: speaker pages, programmes, content uploads, SEO tweaks
• Handle data segmentation and audience profiling
• Produce graphics using Canva / Adobe XD (banners, email graphics, social media visuals)
• Maintain marketing admin (speakers, partners, logos, profiles)
• Build promotional HTML emails
• Upload and update event content to websites
• Schedule and design social media content
• Manage social media content and scheduling

Skills & experience required:

• A degree in marketing or relevant subject (or equivalent)
• Some relevant experience in an internship, marketing assistant role or similar where you are familiar with copywriting, social media, graphics and other marketing skills
• Recent experience in a busy office-based marketing role
• Experience working with Monday.com, Evessio, Adobe, Canva and similar packages would be ideal

Salary, hours & company benefits:

• £26,000 to £28,000 per annum pro rata to the 3 month fixed term contract
• Monday to Friday 9am to 5.30pm, fully office based in Brighton three days a week and Crawley two days a week
• Free parking in Crawley, shuttle bus from Three Bridges station available
• Central Brighton location – no free parking available unfortunately
• Great company benefits

Wild Recruitment Ltd T/A First Recruitment Services is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.