Marketing Assistant 2025

Are you ready to make a real impact in a fast-paced marketing team? We're looking for a dynamic Marketing Assistant to support our efforts in driving revenue growth through innovative marketing campaigns.

The role

As a Marketing Assistant, you'll work closely with the Marketing Operations Manager and collaborate with our Sales, Marketing, and Customer teams to deliver seamless, results-driven marketing activities. You'll play a vital role in keeping the team moving through seamless admin, assisting with campaigns, monthly reporting and occasionally briefing creative and media agencies. You'll also have the chance to support diverse projects across CRM, digital marketing, and partnerships, making this a varied and exciting opportunity to grow your skills.

If you're passionate about all things marketing, including the admin, and eager to contribute to a team that's driving commercial success, we want to hear from you!

We’re based in York, with team days in the office on Mondays and Thursdays to collaborate, learn, and grow together. While being in the office is valuable for development, there’s also flexibility to work from home or our Manchester and Leeds offices.

Key duties

• Support the Marketing team to deliver marketing campaigns, getting involved in different aspects of a project as directed by the Operations and product managers.
• Raise all purchase orders for the Marketing department and manage all related admin, including tracking and reporting expenditure each period.
• Assist in managing and executing the Marketing team's content strategy, ensuring alignment with campaign plans and Communications activities while integrating any new developments.
• Maintain the Northern brand and its values by staying consistent with our brand rollout guidelines, encouraging best practice at all times.
• Contribute to a culture of high commercial awareness and understanding, ensuring that accurate and effective evaluation is conducted and reported to the wider business for all key projects.

About you

We're looking for a driven and enthusiastic individual ready to kick-start their career in marketing. Whether you're a recent graduate or have some experience working in marketing, you'll bring a passion for learning and a can-do attitude. You'll be resilient, highly organised, and eager to take on new challenges, making a real impact within a dynamic team.

You will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Experience of detail orientated approach to admin task management
• Some experience of consumer marketing including first-hand experience of some above the line (TV, radio, press, posters etc) marketing channels
• Understanding of project management principles from briefing through to delivery
• Campaign marketing execution understanding or experience
• Commercial awareness and some financial understanding.
• Ability to influence at a manager level internally and/or equivalent in external agencies or partners

Our benefits

Because we value our people and reward hard work, we’ve created a benefits package that we think you’ll love. So, you’ll be able to make the most of:

• Opportunities to progress and grow - including comprehensive training schemes and a range of online learning courses.
• Free Travel on Northern services - everyone who works at Northern, plus their partners/spouses and dependents, can travel for free right across our full network of services. *Certain eligibility criteria will apply.
• 75% discount with other Train Operating Companies - after 1 year with us, you’ll also get discounted travel on many other rail services in the UK and Europe.
• Defined Benefit Pension Scheme - you’ll rarely find a pension as good as a Northern pension, and we top up your pension with a generous 1.5 times your contribution.
• Maternity and Paternity Benefits - we go above and beyond the standard, and mums can enjoy 9 months’ maternity leave on full pay while dads can make the most of 2 weeks’ paternity leave on full pay.
• Employee Assistance Programme - advice, support and useful information 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on everything from family issues to lifestyle matters.
• Exclusive benefits with Northern Perks - enjoy retail discounts, instant vouchers, cashback, wellbeing support and much more.

About northern

Connecting millions of people and communities across the North is our mission. With 2,500 trains a day, we connect people to jobs, friends, family, and the wonders of the North.

We're improving rail travel, enhancing the experience on board and at stations. Customers are at the heart of our business as we improve performance and create a better way to go.

We're driving economic value and sustainable growth for the North and its people. Our commitment to the environment means reducing our impact and enhancing the world around us.

Make a difference. Make it last. Make it yours. Make it easy. Make it happen. These are our values.

Ready to make them yours? Join us on this journey.

Please note that Northern reserves the right to close recruitment for this role before the published closing date, if high volumes of applications are received.

However, if you miss the application window for this particular role, please keep checking back for other opportunities. We are always on the lookout for great people to join the Northern Team!

We’re an equal opportunities employer and a promoter of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We encourage and welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of gender, sex, ethnicity, race, religion, education, socioeconomic background, disability, or sexual orientation.

We also have Disability Confident status, which means we’re committed to making the most of the talents that disabled people can bring to the workplace.