Marketing Executive - #2084404

MCS Group

Marketing Executive

Role Title: Marketing Executive

Reporting To: Group Marketing and Communications Manager

Location: Belfast, with occasional travel throughout Ireland and Great Britain as required

About MCS Group

MCS Group is one of Ireland's leading specialist recruitment consultancies. This role supports the delivery of the MCS Sales & Marketing Playbook through content creation, digital marketing, candidate attraction campaigns, events, and business development support.

This position is ideal for a marketing graduate with a one-year placement minimum or an early-career marketer with 6-12 months' experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Email marketing campaigns: creating content, capturing leads, reporting on results, and conducting ongoing research to optimise performance
• Social media management and content creation, particularly video content
• Website management and SEO support
• Candidate attraction and employer branding campaigns
• Event planning and coordination
• Sales collateral and presentation support
• Marketing reporting and analytics
• Market research and competitor analysis
• GDPR-compliant database management

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Social engagement growth
• Website traffic and content interaction
• Candidate applications and jobs generated
• Campaign delivery and quality
• Event execution

Annual Objectives

• Build MCS brand awareness across key talent and client markets
• Support candidate attraction campaigns across all MCS verticals
• Generate qualified client leads and engagement opportunities for consultants

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Marketing fundamentals
• Digital marketing
• Social media
• SEO

Skills

• Strong communication
• Organisation and planning
• Creativity
• Collaboration

Attitude

• Positive and proactive
• Curious and eager to learn
• Reliable
• Strong team player
• Driven, hunger to succeed, high performer

Experience Requirements

Essential

• Relevant degree
• Placement experience or a minimum of 6 months' marketing experience

Desirable

• Experience with Canva, HubSpot, Mailchimp
• Video content creation skills
• Recruitment or B2B marketing exposure

What We Offer

• Award-winning recruitment consultancy with a market-leading reputation
• Structured training, mentoring, and career development
• Exposure to commercial recruitment, sales, and marketing strategy
• Opportunity to work with industry-leading consultants and clients

Career Progression

Marketing Executive → Senior Marketing Executive → Marketing Manager → Group Marketing Manager

Company Values

"We make a positive difference on our customers, our people, and the world around us, through innovation, setting new standards for our industry, and always putting people first."

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Darcy Lorimer at MCS Group 02896935498.

Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit MCS Group to view a wide selection of our current jobs www.mcsgroup.jobs

MCS Group is committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for all, being the first recruitment agency in NI to achieve Bronze Diversity Mark accreditation, if you have a disability which means you require a reasonable adjustment to be considered at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us and we will endeavour to facilitate the request.

Not all agencies are the same…MCS Group are passionate about providing a first-class service to all our customers and have an independent review rating of 4.9 stars on Google.