Assistant Marketing Manager

The Role

As an Assistant Marketing Manager for Candidates at SEEK, you'll be part of a fast-paced and supportive environment where you can make a real difference. You'll work on complex challenges that have a direct impact on people's lives, helping us evolve our business and reach new heights.

The Assistant Marketing Manager for Candidates supports the strategy and execution of candidate-facing marketing initiatives across Jobstreet by SEEK. Reporting directly to the Senior Marketing Manager for Candidates, this role plays a key part in delivering integrated campaigns, partnerships, content, community programs, and events that grow candidate awareness, trust, engagement, and conversion—while helping more jobseekers build stronger profiles and stand out to hirers.

As part of the Candidate Marketing Team, the role contributes to broader marketing objectives under the guidance of the Head of Marketing. The successful candidate will work closely with both local and regional marketing teams, collaborating across brand, digital, partnerships, communications, social, and product marketing functions to ensure campaigns and initiatives are aligned with business priorities and market needs. This position requires strong cross-functional collaboration, project coordination, and stakeholder management to support impactful candidate marketing strategies across multiple touchpoints.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the end-to-end planning and execution of candidate marketing initiatives across priority workstreams including awareness and education, brand and social proof amplification, employer buy-in, profile freshness and more.
• Execute integrated campaigns across social, EDM, content, PR, partnerships, and on-ground activations.
• Coordinate with schools, government bodies, learning providers, and brand partners to expand candidate reach and value.
• Help drive programs that strengthen candidate trust and employability, including verified credentials, public profiles, and skills-led propositions.
• Support candidate marketing events, community initiatives, and partnership activities that build engagement and generate leads.
• Track campaign performance, manage budgets, and support reporting for candidate marketing activities.
• Work cross-functionally with country marketing, product, research, partnerships, and commercial stakeholders to bring programs to market effectively.

The Team

The Assistant Marketing Manager for Candidates sits within the Candidate Marketing Team under the broader Marketing function and reports directly to the Senior Marketing Manager for Candidates, with the team ultimately reporting to the Head of Marketing. This role works closely with local and regional marketing stakeholders and collaborates cross-functionally with the Social Media, PR, Digital & Media, and Hirer Marketing teams to deliver integrated candidate marketing initiatives that drive awareness, engagement, and conversion.

The team operates in an agile, strategic, and efficient way, with regular campaign reviews, cross-functional meetings, and collaborative ways of working to ensure alignment across priorities and markets. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports at this stage.