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Strategic leadership:

• Lead and develop transformative data-driven planning and monetisation strategy across Sainsbury’s, Argos and Nectar Partners, to help deliver against our Nectar360 ambition and commercial aspirations

• Demonstrate a strategic mind-set by understanding the key business challenges of our Clients and Partners. Work with the cross functional team (Analytics, Data & Insights, Clients Services and Campaign Media Management) to develop solutions

• Identify supplier opportunity within the Argos corporate customer plan and work in collaboration with relevant stakeholders to introduce new/enhance media capability that deemed industry leading by clients

• Be the most senior planning representative within Nectar360 that engages and influences Nectar Partners, their leadership team and other senior stakeholders to gain business support for joint media activation and evaluation plans

• Play an active role in strategy and development of the planning team and broader Nectar360 business

Data Planning:

• Responsible for your teams' insights led proposals for clients and partners, ensuring that strategy, data selection and process adhere to Sainsbury’s and Nectar’s data guidelines

• Accountable for your team working with analytical resource to deliver evaluations, that create a story to demonstrate the effectiveness of 1st party data usage

• Train and upskill Nectar360 Argos colleagues on how to do simple data led media planning. Educate the wider business on the application and benefits of this data led media capability, providing knowledge and training as applicable

Relationship Management:

• Build a strong and collaborative way of working with peers across Nectar360 leadership and the wider Sainsbury’s leadership teams (trading, planning, digital, business ops etc.), to positively develop the culture of both the Planning team and the broader business

• Foster working relationship with senior level external contacts to embed Nectar360 as a leader within loyalty marketing

• Use these strong relationships and your highly specialised knowledge of Planning to influence and inspire commitment and investment from your clients into Sainsbury’s group media channels

Team Leadership:

• Prioritise business requests and lead a team of 2 to deliver upon your planning strategy (aligned to corporate strategy and Nectar360 goals)

• Lead the team in a fair and ethical way, and with integrity. This includes performance management, coaching, and clear goal setting

• Lead, develop and maintain a challenging, motivating, and supportive team environment, in which all colleagues can achieve their responsibilities and play to their strengths

• Ability to matrix manage across team functions within Nectar360 and across the wider Sainsbury’s business, to deliver on client objectives and revenue targets

• Oversee and govern the workload/project management of your teams' deliverables to ensure that the priorities of the business are achieved

• Brand Ambassador for Nectar360 - excellent communication skills at all levels, with the ability to articulate the benefits and USP of all Nectar360 services at senior levels and in broader forums including speaking at industry events and across the Sainsbury’s business

What you need to know

• A clear expert in customer data and digital driven marketing and insights

• Strong analytical/insight skills working with big data and complex challenges balancing client and business benefits

• Extensive knowledge of how segmentation and profiling techniques are used for direct marketing and loyalty campaigns

• Experienced in bringing data strategies to life in a compelling way

• Demonstrable experience in successfully leading, motivating and managing a team

• Significant experience of dealing comfortably with senior executives up to board level

• Experienced at leading projects and confident in engaging wider business functions in addition to agency teams, FMCG clients and third-party suppliers

• Advanced user of PowerPoint, Excel

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in order to respond to briefs and QC teams work effectively

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build positive relationships at all levels

• Exceptional communication skills with clarity of expression and engaging, as well as flexible style

• Experience working in a fast moving and pressured environment

What you need to show

• Extensive experience and a deep understanding of retail and the value that can be driven from data driven marketing

• Strategic thinking and commercial acumen to support delivery of our commercial plan

• Exceptional senior stakeholder manager. Building long-term, collaborative engagement with stakeholders from different parts of our business and our clients at all levels of seniority

• Anticipating risks and knock-on implications outside our team and division and defining the action plans and solutions

• Motivational, coaching style leadership, inspiring team to deliver top performance every day against assigned business objectives

• Understanding how your role and team fits into the bigger Sainsbury’s business picture and the interdependencies

• Managing unclear boundaries of decision making and priorities

• Ability to identify opportunities to make the way we work simpler

• Accountability for achieving the team results and drive to proactively take on projects that impact the division

• Challenging the status quo and addressing obstacles

• Deep awareness of your impact on others and commitment to ongoing personal development