Assistant Communications and Marketing Manager

Job Description


If you have a passion for sustainability and want a role within a company that has ambitious climate change targets, this could be the role for you.  Go South Coast is a multi-award-winning bus operator running 140 bus services throughout the south of England. Our bus brands include morebus, Bluestar, Salisbury Reds, Southern Vectis and Swindon’s Bus Company.

This is a varied but hands on role, so we are looking for someone with a flexible approach who likes to get stuck in, being practical is a must!

We are embarking on the biggest challenge of our time: to bring people back to using public transport after the pandemic.

What will you be doing:

  • Creating attention grabbing marketing campaigns
  • Updating websites and creating e-newsletters
  • Managing social media marketing content
  • Managing our roadside publicity team
  • Assisting with internal communications
  • Supporting our community and charity work
  • Managing/attending events

Job specific skills are:

  • To have a passion for public transport and sustainability
  • Have at least 3 years marketing experience with a marketing qualification
  • To be a motivated, happy and an enthusiastic team player
  • Excellent written English with impeccable spelling and grammar
  • Basic Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro knowledge
  • Experience of CMS and CRM systems
  • Flexible working approach (buses operate 365 days a year, 24 hours a day!)
  • Full, clean UK driving licence and the understanding of the need to travel across Go South Coast’s wide geographically spread area of depots and garages
  • Local knowledge of bus routes and geography an advantage

This full-time role is based in Poole at our morebus bus station.  You will be part of a wider marketing and commercial team. We offer a good salary and other benefits including free travel and an employee discount and wellbeing platform.

We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity within our workforce

To apply, please send a covering letter outlining why you are the ideal candidate and a 2-page CV to Head of Marketing: nikki.honer@gosouthcoast.co.uk

Closing date: 23rd February 2022


Contact: Nikki Honer

Contact Email: nikki.honer@gosouthcoast.co.uk

Closing Date: 23 February 2022