Mercat Tours Marketing Exec
Organisation: Mercat Tours
Salary: £14.35 pr/hr
Location: Edinburgh
We’re inviting people who have a passion for history, a flair for presentation, and take pleasure in helping visitors enjoy our beautiful city to join us!
👉Choose Mercat for a reason, not just a season!
Your Skills and Strengths:
Demonstrable experience of social content creation in terms of copy, graphics and video across a range of social media platforms within a professional background.
Experience with the following software and platforms or similar is essential; Hootsuite, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom and DaVinci Resolve.
Experience using an e-mail marketing platform such as MailChimp is desired.
Detailed, passionate, and creatively ambitious.
Professional standards of written, image, and video-led communications.
A love for social media, trends, hashtags, innovations, and social best practices.
Excellent organisational skills for time management and forward planning.
Team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Experience of working within tourism would be beneficial.
Friendly, energetic and helpful. Someone who thrives working in a team.
Passion for high quality product and visitor experience.
Commitment to be the best you can be.
Sense of humour!
Details:
Permanent role
Part-time, 21hours
Flexible working requests available from day 1 (e.g. condensed hours)
Hybrid working with work-from-home options
All IT equipment provided
Monday–Friday working week
3-month probationary period
We are a Living Wage and Living Hours employer
We’re not about seasonal jobs, but lasting careers because Mercat is here for good.
When you join us, you’re stepping into a permanent, secure job with top-notch training, career development and leadership that plans for the long-term good of our people, place and planet.
As a local family business and proud B Corp, we nurture our community to create a sense of belonging for our visitors and team alike.
That means we grow and thrive together, for good.
Application Deadline: Friday 01/05/2026
