Overview
Marketing and Sales Assistant Jobs in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at Meerkat Creative
Title: Marketing and Sales Assistant
Company: Meerkat Creative
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Casual / Part-Time
Brisbane based | Some in-person event attendance required
Meerkat Creative is looking for a proactive Marketing and Sales Assistant to support lead generation, client follow-up, marketing campaigns, and business development activity.
This is not just a social media admin role. We’re looking for someone who is organised, confident communicating with people, and excited by the idea of helping turn conversations into real business opportunities.
You’ll work closely with our founder, Anna, helping keep leads moving, following up after events and expos, supporting email campaigns, making follow-up phone calls to warm leads, and booking discovery calls with prospective clients.
This is a great role for someone early in their career who wants hands-on experience across both marketing and sales in a creative, fast-paced business environment.
About Meerkat Creative
Meerkat Creative is a story-led content and creative agency based in Brisbane. We help businesses communicate more clearly and connect with their audience through strategic content, video production, photography, copywriting, and marketing support.
We work with a wide range of businesses and industries, and we believe great marketing starts with understanding people, telling better stories, and following through consistently.
The role
As our Marketing and Sales Assistant, you’ll help support the day-to-day activity that keeps our pipeline moving.
Your responsibilities may include:
- Attending trade shows, expos, networking events, and industry events
- Collecting leads and business cards and entering them accurately into our CRM
- Organising and tagging contacts by source, industry, and stage of interest
- Sending follow-up emails after events, meetings, and campaigns
- Setting up and managing EDMs, email automations, and nurture sequences
- Monitoring opens, clicks, and replies from email campaigns
- Making follow-up phone calls to warm leads who have engaged with emails, campaigns, webinars, or other lead magnets
- Speaking with prospective clients to learn more about their business, current marketing activity, and content needs
- Helping qualify leads and booking discovery calls or digital health checks into Anna’s calendar
- Researching prospects and preparing lead lists
- Supporting outreach campaigns and re-engagement campaigns
- Updating CRM records and ensuring every lead has a clear next step
- Assisting with webinar, lead magnet, and campaign coordination
- Supporting the setup of basic Facebook lead campaigns and related marketing activity
- Preparing simple proposals, follow-up notes, or supporting sales documents
- Helping track campaign results and lead activity
- Supporting light admin related to sales and marketing activity
What we’re looking for
We’d love to hear from you if you are:
- Friendly, confident, and professional when speaking with people
- Comfortable making phone calls and following up leads
- Highly organised and detail-oriented
- Proactive and able to take initiative
- A strong written and verbal communicator
- Tech-savvy and quick to learn systems
- Interested in marketing, sales, business development, or communications
- Comfortable working in a small business where no two days are the same
Ideal but not essential
It would be a bonus if you have experience with any of the following:
- Phone-based sales, call centre work, appointment setting, or lead follow-up
- CRM systems
- Email marketing platforms and automations
- Lead generation or booking appointments
- Event staffing or expo work
- Basic Facebook campaign setup or paid lead generation support
- Webinar or lead magnet campaign support
- Customer service, retail, hospitality, or other people-facing roles
- LinkedIn outreach
- Marketing, communications, PR, or business studies
This role would suit someone who
- Is studying or has recently completed marketing, business, communications, PR, or a related field
- Wants real-world experience across both marketing and sales
- Enjoys talking to people and building relationships
- Likes being organised and making sure nothing falls through the cracks
- Is comfortable picking up the phone and having business conversations
- Wants to grow inside a creative business with strong commercial focus
Hours and format
- Casual / part-time role
- Flexible hours to start
- Some in-person event and expo attendance will be required
- Brisbane-based applicants preferred
Why join us
- Real hands-on experience across sales and marketing
- Opportunity to work directly with the founder
- Flexible structure with room to grow
- Varied work across creative, strategy, outreach, and business development
- A role where your work will have a direct impact on business growth
To apply please send through the following to [email protected]
- Your resume
- A quick 3-5 minute selfie video telling us:
- Why you think you’d be great in this role
- Why you want to work with Meerkat Creative
- What you’re passionate about
- What you like about the creative industry
- What your goals are for the future
- What are your hourly salary expectations
We’d also love to hear about any relevant experience you have in sales, customer service, events, administration, phone-based roles, marketing, lead generation, or campaign support.
