As a Marketing Assistant, you will need to master following:

• communicate schedules to the people concerned
• marketing department processes
• perform business research
• update budget

More generally, a marketing assistant is also versed in:

• assist in developing marketing campaigns
• build business relationships
• customer relationship management
• draft corporate emails
• follow the statutory obligations
• manage personnel agenda
• manage the handling of promotional materials
• market research
• marketing management
• organise business documents
• perform office routine activities
• prepare presentation material
• process commissioned instructions
• revise drafts made by managers
• support managers
• use different communication channels

It also helps to know the following:

• commercial law
• contact customers
• accounting
• apply social media marketing
• attend trade fairs
• collaborate in the development of marketing strategies
• conduct public presentations
• design questionnaires
• draft press releases
• execute email marketing
• liaise with advertising agencies
• liaise with financiers
• manage website
• online ads campaign techniques
• perform market research
• perform mystery shopping
• persuade clients with alternatives
• prepare exhibition marketing plan
• prepare visual data
• public relations
• revise questionnaires
• social media management
• speak different languages
• statistics
• tabulate survey results
• translate language concepts
• write work-related reports