Job title: Fashion marketing assistant
Type: Part-time, permanent
Location: Hybrid (Manchester studio, Timperley + WFH Wednesdays)
Hours: 30 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, (8am – 4pm)
Salary: £13 per hour
Deadline: 20th August
Overview
Uskees is an independent fashion brand based in Manchester, UK. We’re in need of a marketing assistant to join our close-knit team as we work to establish a young label as an influential name within the menswear space.
The role
As our marketing assistant you’ll join the brand team, supporting the planning and delivery of campaigns, shoots and content that launch and convert seasonal collections and product releases. You’ll help run and grow our editorial presence, eComm and brand communications, and manage relationships with influencers and agencies. You’ll also help organise events and trade shows.
Primarily you will work across day-to-day marketing activity, helping elevate our brand presence, keeping us consistent, plural and creatively on point. Over time you’ll work with increasing autonomy to concept and create new and original streams of content for our social channels.
Who we’re looking for
This is a multifaceted role for a talented graduate in either Fashion Marketing, Business or Communications. Someone looking to carve a place in a team building a label from the ground up, developing their interest in content creation.
You’ll be an adept organiser, innovator and point of contact, combining creative flair with data-driven performance smarts and an awareness of the menswear space, social media culture and their shifting rhythms. You’ll be a team player comfortable working to briefs and self-starting on projects where needed, helping your team spearhead Uskees development and nourish a growing following.
Our brand
Uskees is a fashion brand with roots in workwear and a focus on considered, high-functioning menswear. We riff on classic fashion styles, reinventing historic garments like overshirts, genre pieces like formal suiting and cultural aesthetics such as prep.
Across a Core and Seasonal offering of apparel, accessories and goods, we offer timeless, stylish utility and explicit attention to detail and integrity. When you buy Uskees, you’re buying something refined, with an edge. A design that prioritises function, adaptability and longevity. It’s all in service of the contentment and comfort of the wearer. For every aspect of a life lived well and to the fullest.
Your duties
Primary
- Support the brand team across day-to-day marketing and brand communications.
- Help create and roll-out brand content: editorial photo and video shoots, product copy, email newsletters, journal articles and social media posts and enquiries.
- Manage influencer relations and gifting: sourcing menswear creators, liaising and negotiating with agents and seeding product.
- Co-create editorial content and manage brand engagement across channels that bolsters our AI visibility.
- Coordinate and optimise creative for paid ads and e-com shopfront and digital merchandising, tracking performance metrics using web analytics tools, and improving conversion rates.
- Monitor and report on menswear trends, current styling and pricing strategies, as well as industry insights and innovations, keeping us competitive.
Secondary
- Assist in the planning, execution and delivery of brand strategy and creative.
- Attend and assist on shoots and campaign roll outs for digital storefronts and brand channels, launching and marketing core and seasonal ranges, hero campaigns, one-off capsules and brand collaborations.
- Help coordinate events and activations, pop-up shops and sample sales, fashion week activity and launch parties.
Tertiary
- Evolve into our lead in-house content creator
- Concept and create short form content that resonates with Uskees brand identity and audience.
- Become proficient in editing software (CapCut, Premiere and similar)
- Plan and manage the content calendar
- Monitor and report on social media culture, communities and trends.
- Analyse creative performance and propose data-driven enhancements.
Must have
- A degree in fashion marketing, business or communications, or comparable experience at a fashion or menswear brand.
- Good organisational skills and an ability to support delivery of concepts from initial concept to final execution. Handling multiple projects that maintain brand standards.
- Strong communication skills, an ability to build relationships with external vendors — influencers, agencies, models, journalists — as well as internal teams.
- An understanding of the contemporary menswear space, current trends and an interest in styling and men’s fashion.
- An understanding and interest of social media and the content creator space or, direct content creation experience.
- Cultural engagement and creative instinct — an interest in art, design, photography and film, a strong eye for original narratives and arresting imagery.
Nice to have
- Photography skills and ability to shoot own content
- Knowledge and proficiency in video production and editing software (CapCut, Premiere and similar)
Benefits
- Hybrid working (WFH Wednesday)
- Generous staff discount
- Quarterly profit share scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health and wellbeing scheme
- Pension scheme
- Christmas bonuses
- Free on-site parking
- Opportunity to work closely with a small creative team at a growing independent brand.
- Exposure to all aspects of fashion design, production, ecommerce and brand storytelling.
