Job description
- Retail Marketing Coordinator
- Marketing
- Permanent
- 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
- £24,000 - £28,000
- Close date - 27th June
- Telephone interviews - w/c 3rd July, first interviews - w/c 10th July
We now have a fantastic opportunity for a keen and experienced marketer to join the Retail Marketing Team at a time of exciting growth in a dynamic, passionate and ever-evolving marketing landscape.
As Coordinator for all Beaverbrooks Retail Promotions, Product and Brand-Partner marketing, supporting the Retail Marketing Manager, this role is central to these projects, ensuring all activity is project-managed, delivered on time, and reported on in a timely manner.
Regular office presence required with option of hybrid working, to discuss at interview.
This is a great opportunity to work for an award winning, jewellery retailer recognised as:
- ‘The Happiest Place to Work’, in partnership with Retail Trust, at the Retail Week Awards 2023
- The #6 Best Large Company in the UK and ‘Retail’s Best Company to Work For’ in the prestigious 100 Best Companies to Work For list 2022
- ‘Employer of the Year’ for 2022 at the UK Jewellery Awards
Working at Beaverbrooks also brings with it a whole host of rewards and benefits, some of which are:
- Great office profit share bonus
- Outstanding colleague discounts which extend to your family & friends
- Free car parking
- Wellbeing scheme
- Contributory Pension & Life Assurance
- Regular social events- including, but not limited to: pay day drinks, football hospitality events, theatre and theme park trips.
- Free eye test every 2 years
- Flu Vaccinations paid for
- Enhanced maternity and paternity package
- Maternity return to work bonus
- Employee & family support & counselling – Retail Trust
Main responsibilities:
- Project management of all marketing promotions in our calendar, from national multi-channel promotions to local level store-specific activities (new store openings, media campaigns etc), as well as various new product launches.
- Forecasting and anticipating projects in the schedule, continually planning ahead and communicating with teams involved.
- Writing project briefs, defining objectives, mapping out timelines and milestones, securing approvals as required per project.
- Stakeholder management across the business; holding teams accountable to commitments and deadlines, including internal creative, multi-channel and operational teams, senior stakeholders and external suppliers/agencies.
- Admin such as writing internal company comms, and producing post-campaign reports.
- Working closely with a portfolio of globally recognised brand-partners, to build and deliver strong marketing plans.
- Hosting various multi-department planning and status meetings to coordinate projects and teams, with effective time-management and actions defined.
- Various Intranet, systems, central team inbox management, budgeting and calendar admin.
- Potential travel required to external agencies and / or stores across the estate.
Retail Promotions
- In addition to above, owning the calendar of activity, status reports and stakeholder meetings for all retail marketing campaigns, store-specific marketing projects and promotions – ensuring they are always kept up to date and changes are communicated.
- Supporting our growing and evolving store network through considered and effective local-level store promotional campaigns, coordinating with our store teams, internal Retail team and departments as required.
Product launches and Brand-Partner activity
- Project managing product launch campaigns centrally, from initial brief through to launch, ensuring the continual progression of all projects in the product launch calendar; forecasting briefs and continually planning ahead.
- Working alongside our Creative teams, Buying teams, and internal product marketing and eCommerce teams, navigating timelines, milestones and objectives, to ensure delivery of strong and effective product launches and marketing campaigns through the year.
- First point of contact for a portfolio of globally recognised brand-partners, responsible for developing calendars and proposals of activity which supports both ours and our partners objectives, and delivers effective marketing results.
Reporting and analysis
- Preparing regular department and project reports including multi-channel and business performance, analysing performance against objectives set.
- Coordinating thorough post-campaign reports, documenting feedback/learnings for future application.
- Identifying trends and insights from reports to inform future activity.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- Demonstrable project management experience with stakeholders at various levels.
- Passion for retail and marketing industries, adding insights and suggestions for new opportunities.
- Highly organised and self-sufficient, able to manage own workload, and also delegate when needed.
- Enthusiastic and positive approach and able to remain calm under pressure.
- Proven attention to detail.
- Excellent communicator with ability to listen and influence at different levels.
- Creative thinker, confidence to speak up and challenge.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office – with particular focus on Excel.
DESIRABLE SKILLS
- Experience in retail and / or marketing agency/department background.
- A marketing qualification would be beneficial for this role; however we will consider candidates who can instead prove their marketing know-how and passion from their relevant experience.
- Experience in a customer service role or similar.
- An interest/ability in data and reporting to inform stronger marketing campaigns – training can be provided with Excel and data analytics.
About The Company
We’re a family business. And you can tell that when you get here. It feels like family.
Established in 1919 we now have 73 stores across the UK and an ecommerce website, which was launched in 2001. We provide exceptional quality diamonds, jewellery and watches as well as top name brands such as TAG Heuer, Omega, Breitling, Tudor, Gucci and Vivienne Westwood.
Our purpose is to enrich lives, which simply means making a positive difference to the world we live in. We donate 20 per cent of retained profits to charity and since the year 2000, Beaverbrooks has donated £20 million to over 1000 different charities.
We pride ourselves on the work we do for local communities and in support of this we offer charity matching – you raise it, we match it! You can also take 2 paid charity days per year where you can spend time away from the business doing charity work and take time off to give blood.
If you would like to know more about Beaverbrooks, visit https://www.beaverbrooks.co.uk/about-us
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