Corporate Affairs and Marketing Graduate

Marex Overview

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,400 employees across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. For more information visit www.marex.com.

Marex Graduate Programme

Embark on a transformative journey with Marex's Full-Time Graduate Programme - an experience tailored to empower and support Analysts. Dive into the 'Backpack to Briefcase' bootcamp, unveiling the intricacies of financial services, Marex's purpose, and strategic priorities. Join your team post-bootcamp, fostering connections through continuous training.

Learn, grow, and expand your network through a diverse array of sessions fast-tracking your understanding of Marex and the industry. Engage in workshops covering behavioural, cognitive skills, technical understanding, and business awareness, nurturing your professional development.

Throughout the programme, seize the opportunity to attend informal insight events and a lunch and learn series hosted by senior Marex Leaders. Gain exposure, ask questions, and gain real insights into the business from influential figures.

From day one, connect with a network of fellow graduates. Attend training and events together, creating bonds with those sharing your journey. Join Marex, where your passions align with purpose, and your strengths converge with our values.

Role Summary

The Corporate Affairs team protects and promotes Marex’s reputation externally and internally by engaging with potential and existing employees, clients, and investors, as well as other stakeholders and the broader community.

The Corporate Affairs and Marketing Graduate will be responsible for supporting and coordinating all day-to-day activities of the Corporate Affairs team, liaising with team members, internal stakeholders, external agencies and partners to ensure maximum efficiency and collaboration. They will support content development, helping to create and deliver content on internal and external channels. They will also be responsible for media and social media monitoring, fact checking, logistical and events support, regular reporting and other administrative tasks.

This role will have a wide and varied remit, supporting and learning from the whole team, which comprises media relations, social media, all marketing activity including digital marketing, collateral development and events, and internal communications. This is also an opportunity to learn B2B marketing and communications strategies at a growing and dynamic global financial services company.

Overall Responsibilities

Digital, Social, Content & Brand

• Supports content development including researching, sourcing and fact checking stories, news and features.
• Helps to plan, develop and publish content, including video content, across internal and external channels, including LinkedIn and other digital channels
• Helps to manage social media monitoring and listening tools
• Produces quality PowerPoint presentations for key events.
• Builds and manages a digital brand and assets library.
• Manages the governance and quality control processes for the brand’s visual identity, providing guidance and monitoring compliance.
• Supports on collateral development, processing day-to-day production requests, working with our internal design team and external agencies.
• Manages our planning and strategy processes, ensuring demand, timescales, priorities and resourcing are aligned.

External communications

• Monitors the Press Office inbox, responding to routine enquires and escalating requests.
• Builds and maintains a media contact database.
• Fact checks media materials.
• Researches and collates information for media and public affairs briefings.
• Helps to manages the media monitoring service and ensures internal distribution lists are kept up to date.

Events

• Provides additional event logistics and production support as required on external and internal events, in collaboration with the Events team.

Internal communications

• Supports activities and events to promote internal engagement, including DE&I and charitable volunteering activities
• Drafts articles and sources stories to promote internal communications.

Reporting

• Supports the Global Head of Corporate Affairs to produce reporting for the ExCo and Board; scheduling, compiling and organising information and data provided by the Corporate Affairs Team

Standard Responsibilities:

• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA.
• Adhering to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times complying with the FCA’s Code of Conduct and Marex’s Code of Conduct
• To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
• To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required.
• To escalate risk events immediately.
• To provide input to risk management processes, as required.

The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time

Skills and Experience

• MS Office skills.
• Experience with social media publishing tools, SharePoint and WordPress will be an advantage.
• Analytical skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Organisational skills.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Research capabilities.
• Creative skills.
• Administrative skills.
• Negotiating and influencing skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Competencies

• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment. Demonstrates curiosity and creativity.
• Articulate written, visual and verbal communicator, excellent copy accuracy and proofreading skills; fluency in English is essential.
• Drive and resilience to deliver excellence amidst a fast-paced, high-volume environment with tight timelines and changing priorities. Demonstrable ability to lead projects from start to finish.
• Must be adaptable to different work situations and highly organised to prioritise multiple tasks and projects.
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.
• Must be adaptable to different work situations.
• Highly organised to prioritise multiple tasks and projects.
• Must be able to communicate effectively and concisely, through the correct pathways in the organisation.
• Ideally would be enterprising in nature.
• Must be able to display innovation and critical thinking in the role.
• Must be able to research, collect information, interpret information and present findings.
• Must be detail orientated.
• Must be able to handle pressurised situations.

Company Values

Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:

• Respect - Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.
• Integrity - Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.
• Collaborative - We work in teams - open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.
• Developing our People - Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex Spectron the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.
• Adaptable and Nimble - Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client’s various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.

Conduct Rules

You must:

• Act with integrity
• Act with due skill, care and diligence
• Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
• Observe proper standard of market conduct
• Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers

Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.

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