Marketing Assistant/Administrator

We have a 12-month fixed term contract opportunity available to join our Offline Marketing Team in our Head Office, Northminster Business Park, York as an Offline Marketing Assistant/Administrator to cover Maternity Leave. This is a Part Time position, 24 hours per week, which can be worked over 3 or 4 days depending on the preference of the successful candidate. 

As our Offline Marketing Assistant, you’ll play a pivotal role in the planning and production of our Pavers and Jones Bootmaker catalogues that drop frequently to our customers. You’ll work closely with the Buying and Merchandising teams to ensure the correct product appears in the catalogues, co-ordinate samples for photography, proof print media and catalogues and select products for filming.

This is a fast-paced role which involves working to tight deadlines and quick turnarounds and you will need a keen eye for detail when proofing copy, and strong communication skills to make sure everything is in the right place at the right time. Good admin and multi-tasking skills are a must to succeed in the role.

The role will report to the Senior Offline Marketing Executive, and work alongside another member of the offline team, and as part of the wider CRM and Marketing Team.

Key Responsibilities for our Marketing Assistant

• Catalogue planning and production, working to tight deadlines in line with our critical path


• Planning the catalogue layout based on the buyers’ selection


• Adding the catalogue to our online catalogue system and identifying where products can be added


• Responding to requests for changes from buying and merchandising team


• Ordering seasonal photography samples from suppliers and the warehouse


• Ensuring samples are laid out for catalogue and web photography and assist in the organisation of this area


• Arranging samples for location shoots


• Picking stock and samples for catalogue photography


• Catalogue and print media advert proofing


• Liaising with printers / mailing house on catalogue upload and approval


• Ensuring all styles online for catalogue drops and working with ecom and copy team to achieve this


• Distributing catalogues to stores and communicating upcoming campaigns to customer services and stores


• Planning and picking products to be filmed for the website


• Assisting on product filming days at our TV studio


• Working with the social and content team on filming days when required


• General administration duties

About you

• Strong administration skills


• Strong attention to detail and experience of working to deadlines


• Recent Marketing Graduate or an Admin background looking to move into Marketing


• Good MS Office Skills


• Excellent communication skills


• Ability to work effectively both in a team and independently


• Adaptable and flexible, able to work to tight deadlines


• Knowledge of GDPR is beneficial

Benefits/Package for our Marketing Assistant:

Pay: £11.70-£12.17 per hour depending on experience plus

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme


• Death in service


• Generous Staff Discount


• Holiday Entitlement (Increases with service)


• Company Contribution Pension


• Access to Retail TRUST (Wellbeing and Financial Support)


• Access to the Pavers Foundation: an employee-led grant application and charitable giving scheme


• Access to Pavers Academy for learning and development opportunities

About Us

At Pavers we are passionate about providing comfort and happiness to our customers, and we make sure to employ people who are as passionate as we are. We always look for happy, confident, upbeat people, and we provide great jobs in a supportive family environment for them. We know that without our colleagues there is no business, and so the better we look after you, the better service you will provide our customers.

Pavers is a growing, highly profitable, independent family-run business with a strong balance sheet, employing over 1,800 people across our estate of circa 200 Stores, Head Office and Distribution Centre, and we remain acquisitive.

We were voted one of the Top 10 Employers in Retail in the UK in 2020 and were recognised as a 3* Employer with ‘World Class’ levels of workplace engagement by Best Companies in 2023. At Pavers we truly believe the talents, passion, and dedication of our employees are the reasons for our success. As of 2023 we are working towards obtaining menopause friendly status.

In 2021 we became the first major retailer to achieve Carbon Neutral status and have proudly maintained this standard ever since. Championing sustainability is at the heart of everything that we do, and we’re committed to changing the future of retail for the better acting in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.

Giving back is in our nature as a Business and in 2018 we established the Pavers Foundation, in the memory of our late founder, Catherine Paver. Since then, the Foundation has awarded grants for causes close to our colleagues’ hearts for; community, education, and areas of health, totalling more than £2m, growing year on year.

If this sounds like the kind of business you’d like to know more about, we’d love to hear from you - please apply today for the role of Marketing Assistant/Administrator.