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Advertising Executive

London (Hybrid Working)
Permanent
Full-time

Grade 3

Our passion at Currys is helping everyone enjoy the latest tech. We’re proud of the service levels we provide for our customers – online, in-store or in their homes. And it’s all down to our people, 30,000+ capable and committed colleagues, learning together, growing together, making us amazing and celebrating the wins.

Working within the Brand, Communications, Planning and Social/PR team, the role of an Advertising Executive is to support the team in the end-to-end delivery of multi-million-pound advertising campaigns. They will strategically plan and activate media and creative across Currys (mixed electricals) and Currys mobile campaigns, alongside supporting on creative delivery for our always on TV campaign.

You will:

• Manage all ATL creative development and media for within allocated budgets with a ‘right first time’ approach. Take the briefs and own initiatives end-to-end, across all media channels inc.TV/VOD, Print, Radio, Digital/Social, influencer and OOH
• Be brilliant at engaging the business with our creative, media and process plans. These can be responses to briefs, stakeholder sign-off meetings and more
• Driving short- and long-term sales through creating amazing responses to briefs, setting principles in foundation of advertising across various brand and tech and product/price led comms
• Orchestrate Advertising foundations: Great creative comes from having the latest thinking, such as processes, changes across media landscape or creative principles embedded in the team & ways of working
• Manage day to day ‘agency’ relationships both creative, media and internal studio: Ensure the team and agencies are constantly looking at innovation and improvements across media, data, digital platforms, creative and processes
• Manage budget for initiatives. Keeping spend within budget parameters to ensure accurate and effective delivery and maintaining accurate financial records. This will span from small to medium campaigns, occasionally supporting advertising mangers on large scale campaigns

Required experience/qualifications:

• 1-2 years’ experience in an advertising or marketing role either client or agency side
• Experience across media channels such as TV/VOD, Print, Radio, Digital/Social, Influencer and OOH
• Proactive and passionate about advertising and the consumer technology industry
• A creative mind set with the ability to influence and challenge agencies and stakeholders
• Ability to multitask within a team environment and working under pressure with reactive lead-times
• Degree level education – preferably in Business, Advertising or Marketing
• Any industry media qualifications such as Mini MBA in Marketing, IPA Foundation, ThinkBox TV Masters is desirable

We’re one team and we celebrate all of the great things you do. One way we show our gratitude is by giving you access to a range of lifestyle benefits including:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Access to discretionary company bonus scheme
• Life Assurance
• Staff discounts and offers
• Hybrid working; arrangements will depend on your role and business requirements. You could be working from our primary Currys Campus at Waterloo (WeWork), meeting & collaborating at Currys regional workspaces or working from home

Beyond that, we'll be with you every step of the way, enabling you to get the most out of your role. We're building a team that brings technology to people, making their lives better, easier and fuller, and you can be part of it.

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