Senior Marketing Executive – Diversified UK & Europe: Brighton Office, UK
Portfolio: Ocean Business
Full time, permanent, starting asap
The Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to get into event marketing. The role sits within a thriving portfolio of three bi-annual events and an award ceremony. It involves implementing marketing activity including email building, website updates, social media and more. You’ll work as part of a collaborative, hard-working and fun team. The successful candidate will ideally have a minimum of two year’s hands-on marketing experience, be highly organised and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
About Diversified UK & Europe
Diversified UK & Europe is part of a highly successful, international exhibition and media group. The head office is in Portland, Maine, USA.
In the UK we organise 18 highly successful trade shows, all of them leaders in their sectors. We publish several market leading trade magazines and produce a range of digital products to support the industries we work in. Over 110 highly motivated and talented people work in the UK team, all focused on creating the best possible exhibiting and visiting experiences for our customers.
We pride ourselves on providing a fun and inspiring workplace, combined with an entrepreneurial, ‘can-do’ attitude. We offer a vibrant working environment, our office is right in the heart of Brighton, and our teams are the best in the business.
What you’ll be doing:
- Building and sending HTML emails via an email system
- Updating webpage content including copy and imagery
- Briefing designers to create and update marketing assets
- Creating social media graphics, posting and scheduling
- Managing relationships with external event partners
- Dealing with enquiries from both exhibitors and visitors
- Coordination of the speaker programme including management of online conference planner, managing communication with speakers, collating content from speakers
- Hands-on support at the events
What We’re Looking For
We’re not after a perfect CV – we’re after the right person. You’ll probably be:
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated and creative
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment
- Confident using marketing IT systems
- A strong communicator with clear and confident written and verbal communication
- A strong writer, with excellent copywriting and proofreading skills
- Someone with minimum two years hands-on marketing experience
- Someone with a degree in marketing. *Desirable, not a requirement
What’s in It for You?
We know you have options, so here’s why people enjoy working here:
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays – and we close over Christmas and New Year on top of that
- An employer pension contribution of up to 10% – significantly above the statutory minimum and one of the most generous schemes you’ll find at a company of our size
- A discretionary company bonus scheme – when the business does well, everyone shares in that success
- A comprehensive wellbeing package including a cash health plan, EAP, life insurance, critical illness cover, bereavement support, and a contribution towards gym membership or a wellbeing app
- Flexible start and finish times, so you can work around your life
- Hybrid working – a genuine blend of Brighton office and home
- Cycle to Work scheme and Electric Car Scheme
- Ongoing professional development – in-house training, curated programmes, and dedicated self-directed learning time
- A paid volunteering day to give back to a cause that matters to you
- Genuinely family-friendly policies, including enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- A colleague referral scheme – because the best people often know the best people
- Regular social events – from book clubs and game nights to our annual Star Awards and Christmas party
- A two-time Employer of the Year winner (EN Awards 2025 & 2026) – an accolade that reflects how we actually treat our people
Where Could This Lead?
We’re a growing company and we promote from within wherever we can, so as the team evolves there’s real potential for this role to grow with it.
Diversified Business Communications UK is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010. Your application data will be processed under UK GDPR and retained for up to six months. You may request deletion at any time by contacting us on 01273 645110. All offers are subject to satisfactory references, and candidates must be authorised to work in the UK.