Marketing Assistant (Fixed-Term Contract)

JOB DESCRIPTION

DATE: January 2026

JOB TITLE: Marketing Assistant (Fixed Term Contract)

At Eakin Healthcare, we put patients at the heart of everything we do. We are a family-owned global medical device company with a proud heritage of innovation and care. We deliver innovative solutions across Ostomy, Respiratory, and Surgical therapies, along with our Respond home delivery service. Founded over 50 years ago, we now have a team of over 700 dedicated people across three UK manufacturing sites, 12 international sales and distribution centres and export to over 60 countries. We’ve been recognised as a Great Place to Work®! And we’re proud to be named among the Best Workplaces in Healthcare and Best Workplaces for Women.

At Eakin Healthcare, we’re united by one mission: working together to improve lives - just like we’ve been doing for over five decades.

WHY JOIN US?

We’re good at what we do – come and join us and you can benefit from:

• Blended Working


• Bonus


• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28)


• Option to buy holiday days


• Wellbeing Programme


• Health Cash Plan


• Pension


• Life Assurance


• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity


• Cycle to Work Scheme


• Referral Scheme


• Long Service Awards


• Free Parking

ABOUT THE ROLE

Are you passionate about marketing and looking to make a real impact? Join us as our Marketing Assistant and help drive the growth of our innovative respiratory product brands: Amsorb Plus, AquaVENT and NeoFlow. This hands-on role offers a fantastic opportunity to work with a wide range of talented people across our business. If you have great interpersonal skills and a positive attitude, we want to hear from you!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Help us build strong clinical brands for our acute care and neonatal product ranges.


• Work closely with our sales teams and distribution partners to implement agreed marketing strategies within our key markets.


• Support our busy exhibition schedule making sure our team has everything they need to shine at events.


• Boost our social media presence with engaging and accurate posts, paired with eye-catching images. Share your creative ideas with the team!


• Dive into the numbers to help assess the return on investment for our marketing activities, providing insightful reports and feedback.


• Help to prepare training for our sales teams and business partners on positioning and messaging in each target market.


• Keep our marketing materials in top shape and readily available for our sales team and distribution partners.


• Assist with the development and monitoring of marketing budgets.


• Keep the wider team up to speed with analysis of the market, our customers and competitors.


• Help design and execute fun and effective customer engagement activities.


• Support the successful organisation, running and follow up of conferences, meetings and consumer experience days.

Other

• To adhere to the company’s Equal Opportunities policy and Dignity at work policy in all activities and to actively promote equality of opportunity wherever possible.


• To be responsible for your own health and safety and that of your colleagues, in accordance with the company’s’ Health and Safety policy.


• To adhere to the company’s Quality policy and Environmental policy.


• To undertake other duties as may be reasonably required.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Essential

• Educated to degree level in marketing or business


• Excellent verbal & written ability


• Impeccable organisational skills


• Good interpersonal skills


• Willingness to undertake some international travel


• Access to transport

Desirable

• Experience of using social media professionally


• Experience of organising exhibitions or events


• Experience of international marketing


• Experience of managing a project with a range of stakeholders


• 2nd language ability

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Internal

• Marketing team


• Sales teams


• Clinical engagement team


• Finance

External

• Business Partners & Distributors


• Printers


• Agencies & Suppliers.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Some travel may be required

COMPETENCIES

Customer Focus – Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer centric solutions.

Action Orientated – Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.

Collaborates – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

Interpersonal Savvy – Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.

Communicates Effectively – Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Instils Trust – Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity. 

Self-Development – Actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.

Nimble Learning – Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems using both successes and failures as learning fodder.