Job Introduction
- Retail Marketing Assistant
- Marketing
- Permanent
- 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
- £21,000 - £23,000
- Closing Date - Tuesday 27th June
- Telephone interviews - w/c 3rd July, first interviews w/c 10th July
We now have an exciting opportunity for a passionate individual to join our growing marketing department. This is a fantastic opportunity for a self-starting and super organised individual to kick start their marketing career; joining a dynamic, hugely passionate, and growing marketing team.
As Retail Marketing Assistant, you’ll be at the heart of the Retail Marketing team as first point of contact across our store network and internal departments alike. You’ll be supporting a team delivering national promotions, local store campaigns, product launches and working with some globally recognised brands too.
You’ll be assisting the team with the admin, coordination, and reporting of these activities, able to learn and grow from a wide variety of projects across all areas of marketing, and in time will become responsible for a number of projects too.
This role requires regular office presence, option of hybrid working available also, to discussed 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
- First point of contact for the Retail Marketing team across internal departments and the store network – able to prioritise requests and resolve in a timely manner.
- The ‘go-to’ administrator in the Retail Marketing team - note-taking, setting agendas, diarising meetings, data inputting, drafting company-wide comms, proof-reading, various systems admin, and compiling project reports for campaigns.
- Keeping the team on track - identifying upcoming deadlines, updating team status reports and calendars.
- Contributing to team planning and problem-solving, inputting into briefs and sharing industry trends / inspiration.
- Owning and delivering a variety of local-store activities such as shopping centre-driven events, store specific promotions etc.
- Supporting with the delivery of various brand-partner marketing activity, and in time taking responsibility for one’s own portfolio of brands as first point of contact and preparing bespoke promotion proposals.
- Placing orders, coordinating deliveries, finding suppliers as required.
- Potential travel required to external agencies and / or stores across the estate.
The Ideal Candidate
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- Able to work independently, self-starter who can meet deadlines set.
- Professional, friendly and clear communicator with strong attention to detail.
- Enthusiastic and positive approach, stays calm under pressure.
- Reliable in nature, with the confidence to admit mistakes and willingness to learn from them (as it’s only human to make mistakes!).
- Demonstrable passion for marketing and interest in the retail industry.
- Adaptable, responsive and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office – Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
- Valid UK Driving license.
DESIRABLE SKILLS
- Someone taking first steps in marketing or early in a marketing career with some previous experience in a marketing environment.
- Experience in dealing with colleagues and suppliers across all levels.
- Experience and confidence in customer service / retail environment - beneficial for liaising with our brand-partners and store network.
- An interest in data and reporting to inform stronger marketing campaigns – training can be provided with Excel and data analytics.
- An interest or experience in luxury and fashion retail sectors.
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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