• Job Description

  Req#: 228574

  Location - Hybrid working with a base location options of Edinburgh, Manchester, London or Coventry

  In a nutshell

  You will support the full marketing function including but not limited to; front and back-book, Brand, Marketing Services, retail marketing, digital marketing, and Planning teams within either the Go to Market team or CRM team. This will be through either a fixed-term placement within a team, working in a virtual team around a specific ask/project or working on campaigns (predominately in the acquisition and customer growth areas).

  Occasionally, you may also support projects that sit external to the Marketing Dept. Supporting the project on marketing aspects and related requirements.

  You will support the placement lead, the virtual team lead or the campaign lead with related marketing tasks as set down by them.

  What you will be doing

  • Liaise and network with a range of stakeholders including customers, colleagues, suppliers and partner organisations.
  • Contribute to, and develop, marketing plans (media/comms/creative)
  • Support the Senior Marketing Manager and other colleagues (project, virtual and placement leads)
  • Communicate with target audiences and manage customer relationships, as and when required.
  • Manage budgets and project plans as and when required.
  • Evaluate marketing campaigns and act on data-led insights accordingly.
  • Build effective working relationships to understand SB’s product portfolio and key benefit features and core product and customer strategies.
  • Monitor our direct competitors and highlight key market trends & patterns.
  • Support the Senior Marketing Manager in considering how to change customer behaviours and how this impacts customer needs and subsequent journeys (across paid, owned and earned)
  • Consider how marketing tech. can enable us to deliver more efficient and effective campaigns.
  • Coordinate relevant governance to ensure the appropriate risk appetite is considered for campaign or project requirements by managing audit trails, signoffs, and approvals.
  • Undertake periodic process reviews ensuring that we maximise efficiencies.

  What you need to know and show

  • Proven expertise in developing customer-focused communications and propositions.
  • Strong influencing and networking skills
  • Proven campaign management skills for tactical marketing activity specifically through in-store, direct marketing including email, and digital marketing as well as some above-the-line experience.
  • Positive can-do attitude with a commercial focus
  • Analytical ability to understand customer targets and channel choice, evaluating all options to pursue the most cost‐effective and profitable return on investment, plus a thorough understanding of post‐review learning.

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  Qualifications

  We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
  
  Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
  
  Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
  
  Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
  
  Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

  Responsibilities

  We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s Bank. “Bank by name, Sainsbury’s by nature” is the promise line we stand firmly behind, making sure we follow through on this by always offering value, making it easy and being an ally for our customers. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. Because we know it’s by working together, and by bringing new, diverse ideas that creates the best experience for our customers and colleagues. As part of the wider Sainsbury’s Group, being one of the UK’s most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential. Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.

• About the company

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