Hodge are a financial services business focused on the retail savings, commercial lending and specialist residential mortgage markets. Working at Hodge is about making a difference. That starts with our purpose: we make life better for customers and society in the moments that matter.
For over 50 years, we’ve shared the same simple mission: to really make a positive difference for our customers and communities. This ethos is in our DNA, as we are 79% owned by a charity, the Hodge Foundation.
The thing that sets us up to succeed with that mission is our people. We are so proud to have exceptional colleagues at Hodge, and we look to develop and invest in our people through their careers. Hodge is at its best when we enable our people to be their best!
We are recruiting for a Mortgage Marketing Assistant to join our Marketing team. The right candidate will be supporting the Retail Mortgages department to achieve their business objectives and strategy. A great opportunity for the right candidate to develop their skills through exposure to the whole marketing mix.
Responsibilities:
- Create templated marketing emails ready for dispatch using the Mailchimp email marketing platform
- Support the mortgage marketing team in the delivery of marketing campaigns. This could include briefing activity, proofreading, social media activity and design input as well as support with reporting post activity
- Support the mortgage marketing team with the coordination of sales support material and merchandise for industry events working closely with the marketing consultants and the business development team
- Be fully immersed in the brand and work collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure all internal and external output meets the brand guidelines
- Coordinate the monthly board report and weekly exco reports by collating content from the mortgage marketing team and consultant/s and input into the board report template
- Help research mortgage industry awards for us to enter and be responsible for producing first drafts of entries
- Accurately raise and log purchase requests and invoices for the mortgage marketing team. Monitor the marketing spend against budget. Be the team contact for any enquiries
- Contribute to best practice and incorporate latest developments and thinking to our communications
- Work across the whole retail mortgage business and foster good collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders
- Develop and maintain good knowledge of all company policies and procedures and wider legislative/regulatory requirements, as advised by line management and within the Group Compliance Including but not exhaustively; Conduct Rules, Data Protection, Money Laundering, etc.
- Demonstrate agility to respond to the varied needs of the business in a rapidly changing and challenging environment.
- Undertake any other reasonable tasks as and when requested by management.
Person Specification:
- Contribute to best practice and incorporate latest developments and thinking to our communication
- Work across the whole retail mortgage business and foster good collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders
- Develop and maintain good knowledge of all company policies and procedures and wider legislative/regulatory requirements, as advised by line management and within the Group Compliance Including but not exhaustively; Conduct Rules, Data Protection, Money Laundering, etc.
- Demonstrate agility to respond to the varied needs of the business in a rapidly changing and challenging environment.
- Undertake any other reasonable tasks as and when requested by management. What we’re looking for
- Experience within Financial Services/mortgages – highly desirable
- Experience within marketing – highly desirable
- An excellent level of stakeholder management and people skills to forge good working relationships
- Good presentation skills
- Educated to degree level or equivalent desirable
In return we offer:
- Based in Cardiff City Centre operating in a highly flexible Hybrid workspace.
- 28 days Holiday with the option to buy more.
- Subsidised Gym Membership.
- Private Medical & Health Insurance
- Extensive learning and development programme
- Generous, personalised benefits package
- Company pension contribution up to 15%
- 4 days on top of annual leave for community and charity work
- Flexible working options
Interested?
Please send your application using the ‘Apply Now’ Button by 1st November 2022.
Hodge is an advocate of being an equal opportunities employer, We believe in promoting equality and diversity which is central to our lives today. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and recognises the value a diverse workforce brings to an organisation.
ESG and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do and serves as a reminder of the responsibility we have to our stakeholders, customers, colleagues and the communities we operate in to use our position wisely. We’re currently exploring different certifications available and have done an initial review of how we think we’d fare, as we see this as a real opportunity for Hodge given our social purpose.
