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We are looking for a Marketing Assistant to join our head office team in Macclesfield. This is an exciting new role for a marketeer starting out in their career! We want someone who loves food, has a passion for restaurants, cafés, and pub grub, and a keen eye for trends in the food and drink industry. Reporting to the Own Brand Marketing Manager, you’ll play a vital role in shaping and promoting our Own Brand products.

If you’re a proactive, organised team player with a can-do attitude and eager to dive into the world of B2B marketing, we’d love to hear from you!

In this role you will:

• Assist the Own Brand Marketing Manager to drive up demand for our five own brands: Chefs' Selections, Chefs' Selections Premium Collection, Eden Grove, Roast 440, and Clene Guard.
• Work with the Own Brand Marketing Manager to showcase our products at food and drink tradeshows across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland.
• Confidently engage with customers at tradeshows, discussing and promoting our products.
• Work with the creative and technical teams to ensure all packaging created inhouse or by our suppliers is accurate and adheres to brand guidelines.
• Be responsible for briefing and overseeing delivery of all required assets from photographers, food stylists, social media content creators and chef influencers.
• Attend Food & Drink trend conferences in London three times a year and draft content for inclusion in the Caterforce Trend Guides.
• Undertake general admin duties such as arranging travel and accommodation for events, completing all required paperwork for award entries and liaising with suppliers to ensure products are delivered on time for photoshoots.
• Confidently plan, create, post content and provide monthly performance reports across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, ensuring alignment with the brand's tone of voice and objectives.
• Write monthly department news posts for inclusion in the Caterforce Portal.
• Provide general marketing support to the wider team as and when required. Including attending group marketing meetings and supplier presentation days.

Key Skills and Requirements:

• The ideal candidate will be confident, proactive, detail-oriented, and highly organised, with the ability to come up with creative ideas based on food and drink trends.
• This role requires travel across the UK and Ireland. Therefore, a degree of flexibility is essential, a full clean driving licence and own vehicle would be a distinct advantage.
• An understanding of brand management and B2B marketing through either a relevant marketing qualification and/or work experience in a similar role would be beneficial.
• Experience of using social media in a professional capacity and scheduling posts across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok is essential.
• Photoshop skills or experience of other graphic design tools would be advantageous.

Salary and Benefits:

If you have the skills that we need for this junior position, we can offer you a competitive salary and benefits package which includes:

• Mobile phone allowance paid monthly
• Cycle to work scheme and Tech scheme
• 25 days of paid annual leave (rising to 28 days with service) plus bank holidays and your birthday off, plus one day a year paid volunteer time
• Flexible working dependent on business needs
• A workplace pension scheme
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Employee Assistance Programme delivered by The Burnt Chef, includes 24/7 confidential support

To Apply:

• Please send your CV and a covering letter to careers@caterforce.co.uk by 28th February 2026. We will be in touch with all those who have been shortlisted, but unfortunately due to expected high volume of applicants we will not able to get back to everyone individually.

· No agencies, thank you.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to £30,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Paid volunteer time
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Work Location: In person