ABOUT THE ROLE 

The role of Marketing & Events Executive at the lang cat will largely involve supporting the Head of Marketing in order to deliver exceptional events and make sure that the external face and voice of the lang cat is presented in a professional and impactful way. 

This would be an excellent starting or development role at an award-winning agency for anyone who wants to build both a network and a career in financial services marketing. You don’t need any financial services experience to apply for this role. 

This is a full-time role based at the lang cat’s beautiful, airy offices in Leith, Edinburgh, but with travel from time to time and potential for a bit of hybrid working from home once you’re up and running. 

As a Marketing & Events Executive at the lang cat you will be responsible for: 

• Event admin and support. A wide range of duties here, including working with our external event partners, venues and speakers to ensure smooth running of events. Ticket administration, maintenance of doorlists, waitlists, and guest lists. Creating briefing documents for speakers. Working with sponsors and couriers on logistics for stands, set-up and take-down. And anything else our Head of Marketing needs doing. 

• Creative support. Working with external designers, including briefing, giving feedback and moving designs towards a final stage sign-off. 

• Slide preparation. Ensuring slides – whether for events or more general use – are professionally produced and designed. 

• Social media and content. Strengthening our presence in chosen social media channels and looking for new opportunities. 

• Marketing planning. Ensuring marketing and content plans are up to date. 

• Other duties as required. There is no shortage of things to do; we will also ensure you are exposed to the whole business to help your training and learning; you might be helping our insight team one week with a paper, working with our PR team on a launch for a client the next, and helping our financial director the next. 

ESSENTIAL SKILLS 

While you don’t need to tick any specific academic boxes, the successful candidate will be able to demonstrate: 

• An ability to deal with complex concepts, to think about them clearly and to learn fast. 

• Experience producing written and designed materials to brief and to deadline – this might be as part of a job, a hobby, or as part of your education. 

• A strong work ethic; turning up on time, ready to get stuck in. 

• An ability to juggle competing demands and multiple deadlines. 

• An ability to generate creative ideas when required. 

• Excellent standard of writing in terms of grammar, structure and style. You won’t be relying on AI to turn out good copy. 

• Effective oral communication skills both in person and over the phone. 

• An ability to work collaboratively and independently. 

• Good grades appropriate to your stage of education. 

• Ideally a decent level of skill with Adobe, Canva, or other similar packages. 

WORKING AT THE LANG CAT 

We’re committed to being open to talented candidates irrespective of your gender, race, faith, sexuality and physical ability. What we care about is your ability to do the job. Our office in Leith is wheelchair accessible. We’re also always keen to hear from ‘returners’ who are looking to re-enter the industry after a break, and career-changers too. 

WHAT’S THE PACKAGE? 

This Marketing & Events Executive position is a permanent role with a six-month probationary period. Salary will depend on experience and be based around the average for comparable roles in the Edinburgh market. We pay the age-appropriate National Living Wage as a minimum. 

There’s a pension scheme (8% unconditional), a bonus scheme and 33 days’ holiday a year plus Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. After three months you will qualify for a death in service benefit of four times gross salary. We have an extended benefits policy which gives access to certain additional health and wellbeing services. 

HOW TO APPLY 

To apply, get in touch with us by emailing hello@thelangcat.co.uk by 5pm on Friday 28 November 2025. Please attach your CV and write a covering note of no more than 500 words explaining why you want to build a career in financial services marketing with the lang cat and why you think you’d be a good fit for us. Don’t use ChatGPT or any other generative AI to help you; we’re pretty good at spotting its not-so invisible hand and we want to see what you can do, not what you can prompt a machine to do. You can also upload your CV and covering letter via the website.

A few hints for those looking to differentiate themselves: 

• Do your research on us before applying, and show us that you have. 

• Your covering note is more important than your CV. 

• We’ll immediately disregard applications with spelling mistakes, awful grammar, or if we have a reasonable suspicion you’ve used AI to help you. We’re serious about this. 

• If your covering note is 501 words we’ll disregard it. We’re testing what you can tell us within a strict word count here, and your ability to follow a brief.