Marketing & Communications Assistant

5 months ago

Atherstone, United Kingdom Aldi Full time

Providing invaluable support to the Marketing & Communications Manager, you'll help ensure the Aldi personality is always unique, powerful and consistent in the marketplace.

Insightful and knowledgeable, you'll help in all areas of product advertising, marketing and PR. That makes it an exciting and fast-paced team to join. With the ability to think on your feet, react positively to a variety of challenges and cope with anything we throw at you, you'll keep Aldi growing.

We do things our own way at Aldi. But whatever we're doing, we must be getting it right. With a wave of impressive sales figures behind us, we're opening new stores at lightning speed. Which means our marketing and communications need to keep up.

As the UK’s 4th biggest supermarket, Aldi is committed to delivering high-quality products and exceptional value to our customers. Aldi is one of the fastest growing supermarkets in the UK grocery market, with over 900 stores and still growing.

Voted ‘Brand of the year’ Aldi has consistently raised the bar on its communications to be the most talked about Grocery retailer, with a brand power rating far ahead of our market share and now ahead of our competitors. We are looking for creatively minded individuals with a self-motivated approach to work, used to working in a high pressure, time sensitive environment with the ability to manage multiple timelines simultaneously.

This role will encompass the end-to-end planning, managing and delivery of our well-known and much loved Weekly Specialbuys Leaflets. You will manage the day-to-day workload with our agency partner, ensuring the Leaflets are delivered on time, to the brief and in budget, whilst making sure content is on brand, delivers key messaging and is customer focused to drive footfall and purchases in store. You will have the opportunity to use your marketing skills and knowledge to develop assets and content that will be utilised by multiple channels.

**Your New Role**
- Planning and development of Weekly Specialbuys Leaflets and Seasonal Brochures
- Making proactive recommendations for content creation, then delivering on these
- Managing our agency partners to ensure the Leaflet is delivered to a high standard and within budget
- Developing close relationships and managing key stakeholder communication within the Marketing and wider Buying function to ensure an aligned approach across our Specialbuys programme
- Project Management and all day-to-day activities associated with production of the Leaflet
- Ad hoc reporting and analysis
- Strong understanding of the business and marketing strategy and how these can be delivered via the Weekly Specialbuys Leaflet

**About You**
- Experience within a similar marketing role (client or agency side)
- Exceptional communication skills both written and verbal
- Stakeholder management skills - you need to not be afraid to challenge and ask questions
- Good understanding and experience of managing, delivering, and reporting of marketing campaigns
- Excellent project management abilities
- Highly organised
- A natural skill for attention to detail
- Deadline driven and able to multitask
- Excellent presentation and reporting skills
- Knowledge of all MS Office packages

**What You’ll get in Return**
- Salary starting £34,690 rising to £40,510
- Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm, with the opportunity of 2 days a week remote working
- 5 weeks’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- In office flexi-time
- Full training provided
- Pension scheme
- Private employee medical insurance after 4 years
- Company sick pay scheme
- Company maternity, paternity and adoption leave pay after 2 years
- Long service rewards
- Access to MyBenefits, where you can find a wide range of benefits, including our bike to work scheme, shopping and cinema discounts, health cash plan, a FREE will, travel and discounted gym memberships, as well as a host of benefits to support your financial and wellbeing needs
- Access to a free,24/7, confidential virtual GP service for all Aldi Colleagues and their children (under the age of 16)

Aldi is an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce and are dedicated to promoting a culture of inclusion, providing an environment in which collaboration, respect and fairness are essential. We value diversity and are dedicated to treating all of our colleagues and prospective colleagues fairly and with respect.

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