interior design assistant jobs

About Us
We are a fast-paced, family-run interiors and furniture company working with schools, colleges and commercial clients across the UK. We’re growing our marketing activity and looking for a creative, efficient person to help us deliver day-to-day campaigns, social media content and product website updates.

The Role
We're looking for a creative, organised and energetic individual who can support our marketing lead with email campaigns, research, content creation, collation and basic Shopify updates, while also creating on-brand graphics and social media content in Canva. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys getting things done efficiently and to a high standard, working with our team to deliver value and to excite our customers.

We’re initially looking for a hands-on person to join us for a 3-6 month period to help us get key marketing projects delivered, with the option of a more permanent role afterwards and ongoing opportunities for promotion for the right candidate.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and schedule email marketing campaigns and newsletters from existing templates/briefs
• Help segment, clean and update marketing contact lists and spreadsheets
• Carry out online research (prospect lists, events, competitors, example sites)
• Organise project imagery, testimonials and case study content
• Create and update brochures, PDFs, leaflets and slide decks in Canva
• Design social media graphics and posts for LinkedIn and Instagram in line with brand guidelines
• Produce simple short-form videos/reels from existing footage for web, social and events
• Prepare artwork for exhibitions and printed collateral using existing brand assets
• Make light content changes in Shopify (copy, images, product data from spreadsheets)
• Check web pages for layout/consistency issues and flag anything more technical

Skills & Experience

• Experience in a marketing assistant, content creator or similar role
• Good people skills to integrate with our team in Colchester
• Good telephone and email skills for speaking with event and exhibition organisers
• Strong Canva skills for social media graphics, layouts and simple video editing
• Some hands-on experience with Shopify (or a similar CMS) – editing pages and products
• Confident using Excel/Google Sheets for lists and basic data management
• Good written English for captions, emails and light copy editing
• Comfortable working to deadlines in a busy, fast-moving environment

Personal Qualities

• Organised and able to work from a task board without constant supervision
• Creative but pragmatic – able to suggest ideas and then execute them efficiently
• Attention to detail with a strong sense of brand and visual consistency
• Friendly, positive and comfortable working in a small, close-knit team

Hours & Salary

• Part-time hours – to be agreed (e.g. 16–24 hours per week or similar)
• Salary dependent on experience

How to Apply
Please apply with your CV, a short cover note explaining why you’re a good fit for this role, and (if available) examples or a portfolio of Canva/social media/content creation work or examples of previous Shopify experience.

Job Types: Part-time, Temporary, Temp to perm, Graduate, Internship
Contract length: 3 months

Pay: £10,158.00-£24,317.00 per year

Expected hours: 16 – 32 per week

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Work from home

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Colchester CO4: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (required)

Language:

• English (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Willingness to travel:

• 75% (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Colchester CO4