OUR PLACEMENTS

Placement summary

At Exmos we make IT pain-free for more and more businesses by thinking innovatively around our customers’ issues and providing leading-edge technology to help improve staff productivity and business efficiency. We work with privately owned, mid-size SMEs right up to fairly substantial global corporations, delivering networking, custom software development and ongoing customer support in the UK, Europe and USA, from our base in Grangemouth, Central Scotland. We’re growing and we need a Marketing and Administration Graduate to join our team for an initial 12 month project.

Job description

Project Description

This 12 month placement will report to our Commercial Manager and you will split your time across the two sides of the project (depending on demand). In effect, you will have the best of both worlds - firstly, your recently acquired marketing skills will help us to shape and implement our marketing strategy, both traditional and digital and secondly, as a recent graduate, you will gain vital and perhaps career defining exposure to how a business operates internally and you will bring enthusiasm and professionalism to our sales administration processes. Both of these key areas of our business require a dedicated approach and given that we have a brand, new products and lots to say to new and existing customers, you can see exactly where your role fits in the overall business model.

Placement Objectives

The project is really to help devise our marketing strategy and implement it, covering all communication channels – social media, print, editorial, website, etc.

Role Description

 Marketing responsibilities will include the following:

• Agree, implement and maintain the social media strategy for the company
• Create and distribute (via email marketing platform) monthly newsletters, blogs and other communication material
• Assist with the creation of new copy for publications
• Assist with website maintenance, SEO and analytics
• Support the wider team with sales literature, updating and rewriting where as and when required
• Keep up to date with competitor activity

Office Admin responsibilities will include the following:

• Track the sales enquiry process via the CRM system
• Prepare service quotes for issuing to clients
• Assist with material quotations, placing purchase orders and tracking delivery
• Create sales orders in preparation for invoicing
• Ongoing maintenance of asset management system
• Processing purchase invoices

Qualifications

HND or Degree in Marketing or related discipline would be an ideal qualification for this role

Skills / Experience

Essential Skills

• Excellent written and presentation skills – you’ll need to be a confident and clear communicator
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent listening and interpretation skills
• Good research skills
• Good organisational skills, be process driven and able to multi-task
• Able to contribute ideas and changes in a positive well thought out way Have a practical, ‘hands-on’ approach
• Good working knowledge of a graphic design package
• Proficient with Microsoft Office packages

Desirable Skills

• Previous experience of a similar role, whether during or post-study, would be beneficial but not essential
• Experience with Sharepoint

Benefits

Company benefits

We offer five full weeks' holiday plus statutory days.

Placement benefits

As part of ScotGrad Graduate Placement Programme, the successful candidate will have access to a three day business and employability skills residential course and also benefit from ongoing support from the ScotGrad team throughout the duration of the placement.

Additional information

Location: Grangemouth

Planned interview date: TBC

Preferred start date: 27th June 2016

Company information

Exmos has been designing and implementing IT solutions for over 20 years.  These solutions cover networking and custom software development plus the ongoing customer support for both.  Our clients range from privately owned, mid-size SME companies through to large corporations operating on a global scale. We are involved in the support of customer sites in the UK, Europe and USA.  A large part of our strategy is to uncover interesting projects that require innovative thinking and leading edge technologies to provide the solution.

Company sector: Enabling Technology ICT

Company website: www.exmos.com