Retail Promotions Executive

**About us**:
Frontline Group is made up of Frontline, Seymour, Gold Key Media and Routes to Retail. We’re the UK’s leading retail sales, marketing and distribution company working predominantly in the exciting and diverse areas of publishing and home entertainment.

Our key clients include publishers of iconic magazine brands such as Radio Times, Good Housekeeping, TV Choice, Heat, Top Gear, Grazia, Vogue, Slimming World, Cosmopolitan, Empire, National Geographic and 100’s more. We also work with major film studios managing their DVD presence within the grocery retail channel and are growing our reach in categories such as books and music with further category expansions on the horizon.

As a Distributor we work closely with UK and International retailers, wholesale, International Distributors and other parts of the supply chain to ensure our client’s sales, retail marketing and distribution objectives are met. Through our brand targeting and audience engagement agency Gold Key Media we develop sampling and marketing solutions, and we manage brand placement activities in the events, travel and hospitality sectors across the world.

Frontline Group is owned by two of the world’s leading publishing companies, Bauer Media and Immediate Media Company (Hubert Burda Media). This will provide opportunities to grow your career across a number of different businesses and functions including brand marketing, sales, analytics, insight, finance, IT services, supply chain and publishing. We strongly believe in developing our own people and have a great track record of supporting and coaching our colleagues, who have then gone on to grow their career within our business.

Our teams are made up of the most talented and widely respected people in our industry and are seen as the experts in their fields. At the Frontline Group we celebrate our differences and ensure everyone feels welcome, trusted and valued for being their authentic selves.

All our roles offer an informal hybrid working option, combining in-office and remote/home working.

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Head on over to our website Frontline Group to find out more.

**About the Role**:
**Job Opportunity**:
Our Retail Promotions Executive role is a core support for both our National Accounts and Newstrade Marketing Teams and as a result offers the opportunity to gain experience in both areas. It offers exposure to retail accounts as well as all the titles within our portfolio.

Excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage deadlines are a key requisite, as is the ability to work well with others. The purpose of this role is to manage retail activity (both trade and shopper marketing) to include booking of space, checking of POS and to process the invoices in a timely manner.

As our Retail Promotions Executive, your key responsibilities will include:
Management of the retail promotional plan (both newstrade and shopper marketing) ensuring that the annual plan is correctly input into MARS and that any changes are managed.

Ensure all booking forms for all promotional activity are completed accurately and sent to the account(s) within the specified account deadlines.

Organise and order POS/merchandising for all shopper marketing activity in relevant retailer as per agreed deadline.

Ensure the retail invoices are signed off correctly in MARS and NAV in line with the retailer’s payment terms.

**Company Benefits**:
At the Frontline Group, we offer great development opportunities, enhanced family friendly leave and a range of salary sacrifice flexible benefits which you can select based on your lifestyle; benefit options include private medical insurance, holiday purchase and a tech scheme, to name a few.

On top of that, we also offer:

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata)
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance and income protection
- Executive coaching and mentoring available to all
- Everyone has access to our **EPIC** approach to talent development
- Informal hybrid working
- 2 paid volunteering days per annum
- Additional discretionary day and loyalty schemes
- Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- Stuart House, Peterborough - On site gym, parking

**Essential Skills**:

- Numeracy and attention to detail skills are essential.
- Timekeeping and organisation: ability to meet all deadlines and prioritise workload.
- Flexibility and perseverance be able to adapt different approaches depending on the situation.
- Interpersonal sensitivity: work well within a team, be aware of impact on others and share best practice.

**DEI Statement**:
**Bring ‘You’ to the interview