Job Description:

Job Title: Marketing Officer

Location: Edge of the Lake District & Yorkshire Dales

About Us:
We are an innovative and rapidly expanding wholesaler of interior and garden furniture, offering design-forward products and forging strong relationships with customers & international partners. Our staff, split between our offices just outside Kirkby Lonsdale & our office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, are a dynamic mix of product, production, sales & customer specialists who thrive on a supportive, friendly atmosphere.

Role Overview:
We are seeking a forward-thinking, commercially minded Marketing Officer who is interested in joining a B2B sales & service team for whom the customer is at the heart of the operation. Experienced in B2B account-led marketing your role will be:

• Strategy: working with the directors to develop an overall marketing strategy based on a balance of brand management and customer activation activities
• Market Intelligence: conducting detailed research into the furniture industry, its players and our potential customers
• Sales Information: monitoring our existing customer base and sales figures to maximise commercial performance and to feed information to our sales agents to maximise opportunities
• Websites: oversight and development of our company websites
• Events: arranging our regular trade shows & promotional events
• Socials: developing and monitoring our presence across social and other platforms, understanding what’s working and be able to turn insights into actions
• Content & Creative: production of promotional literature and content, working with photography & other imagery for promotional purposes

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Education to degree level with a qualification in marketing and/or business
• A minimum of 3-4 years experience in B2B marketing
• Strong inter-personal, communication and clear, persuasive storytelling skills
• A fierce attention to detail
• A love of detailed research
• Graphics skills (preferred)
• Software knowledge: Microsoft Office, Canva, Shopify and other website builders (all essential) Photoshop or similar (preferred)
• Comfortable with CRM systems
• Extensive LinkedIn use and knowledge
• Smart, ethical use of AI for research, image generation and workflow acceleration (we value human-led brand voice)

Why Join Us?

• Competitive salary
• A supportive, tight-knit team environment where ideas and questions are welcome
• Regular training/learning opportunities
• A stunning office setting, perfectly situated near the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales – great for an outdoors lifestyle

If you’re eager to progress your career in B2B marketing with a company showing huge growth potential, then we’d love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and a brief covering letter outlining why you’re a great fit for this position; we’d particularly like you to include 5 bullet points on how you’d grow B2B demand for our next range launch.

Due to our collaborative working style, this position is office based and required the successful candidate to reliably commute or relocate to this rural area.

Application deadline: 21st November 2025.

To apply, email info@papayatrading.co.uk