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Howdens Joinery are looking for a highly motivated, Category Assistant to join our dynamic category marketing team who are based at Raunds, in Northamptonshire.

As Category Marketing Assistant, you will support the Category Marketing Manager in the implementation of a category focussed marketing plan as part of the wider marketing strategy for Howdens Joinery.

This is a full-time and permanent position with a blend of home and office work based in our Raunds office in Northamptonshire

What you will be doing:

• Manage the daily activities within a single category marketing plan to support the category and marketing teams remaining aligned and informed
• Execute a plan that delivers internal and external engagement of categories and products that drives awareness, understanding and ultimately sales through targeted activity.
• Create briefs for marketing and internal communications to ensure successful engagement and launch of new products and category specific activity
• Maintain and communicate an accurate product plan to inform category and product specific marketing and internal comms activity with timings and information for the wider marketing and internal comms teams
• Maintain highly functional relationships between the marketing, internal communications, business planning and category teams and uphold ways of working that ensure critical timings are met
• Input into a cross category selling plan to increase add on sales and maximise opportunities to market multiple product categories without increasing spend
• Understand and support activity around Howdens label brands to elevate the prominence within marketing and internal comms activity in line with category and brand ambitions
• Ensure reports are briefed and produced on category marketing activity in a timely way to ensure they can inform the future direction of category specific activity

What we are looking for:

• Proactive outgoing individual ideally with some previous experience in a Marketing or Category role.
• Highly organised with the ability to pay close attention to detail.
• A confident communicator, who can build and maintain excellent working relationships.
• The ability to work closely with stakeholders across the business.
• Producing, maintaining, and implementing a complex plan and activity
• Experience in a fast-paced trade category or marketing environment preferred
• Writing product communication materials
• Excellent project and time-management skills
• Strong excel knowledge is also preferred

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary and company bonus
• Excellent pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with the option to buy additional days
• Staff Discount
• Subsidised on-site restaurant
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional Reward and Recognition events

About Howdens:

Howdens Joinery is the UK’s number one trade kitchen supplier providing thousands of products across kitchens, joinery, and hardware. We have over 800 depots throughout the UK and Europe – making us the first choice for more than 460,000 loyal trade professionals. Last year our sales reached circa 2.3bn, and we have an ambitious growth agenda.

There is a strong entrepreneurial ethos and the opportunity to develop within a fast-paced and commercial environment. That, along with a competitive salary, development opportunities, and exciting rewards, are among the reasons why our people enjoy working for Howdens – and why we have been named one of the 10 Best Big Companies to Work For.

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