Senior Marketing Executive

**The Opportunity**
This is a fabulous opportunity to join an award-winning marketing team in an innovative company, at an exciting and transformational time.

Ideal for someone with c5 years’ experience, with a professional marketing qualification or equivalent in experience. You will have a broad range of skills and knowledge and be able to demonstrate your experience in executing both online and offline campaigns, whilst managing workload and priorities.

If you are keen to continue to grow and develop amongst a highly-skilled team of marketing professionals, in friendly fast-paced and collaborative environment, then this is the role for you.

You must have strong communication, listening and influencing skills, an excellent understanding of digital marketing trends and techniques, and you will have project managed major initiatives or campaigns. You will have good creative design skills and be proficient in Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator and can create artwork that is print and web-ready.

As travel is sometimes required, a driving license would be beneficial but not essential.

**The Team**
The Marketing Department is an influential dynamic and creative team of 17 people split across Product Marketing and Marketing Communications. Responsible for launching new products and services, supporting all our Sales Channels, and creating customer campaigns and initiatives.

The Marketing Communications Team ensure that the Sharp brand is presented correctly and deliver a wide range of tactical communications activity in support of our sales effort and success.

**Key responsibilities**
- Design and produce engaging marketing collateral/content in line with brand guidelines to enhance customer perception
- Contribute to the Communications strategy and plan, taking ownership of those aspects allocated to you
- Produce regularly reporting on the effectiveness of your areas of responsibility, suggesting areas of improvement
- Lead the delivery of major initiatives, campaigns, and projects, working with the Group Brand & Marketing Communications Manager to ensure they the meet planned objectives
- Develop project briefs and support other team members to ensure project / campaign targets are achieved
- Utilise and maintain the marketing systems and tools as per the agreed processes
- Work with external agencies as required to ensure their work meets the brand requirements at the best price and value
- Develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders across the business to ensure an understanding of each area, their goals, and objectives

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**Requirements**:

- Circa 5 years+ in marketing or equivalent in experience
- Strong communication, listening and influencing skills
- Professional marketing qualification
- Strong understanding of digital marketing trends and techniques
- Good Creative design skills: Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator
- Project managed major initiatives or campaigns
- Delivered activity across the marketing communications mix
- Commercially aware with a curious and creative mind-set
- Self-motivated and resilient

**About Sharp UK**
Sharp Business Systems UK Plc strives to continue to make Sharp a great place to work, and currently has over 750 employees based out of 16 offices across the UK. Our people are the heart of our organisation and are responsible for delivering excellent service to our customers.

Flexible working, competitive salary and benefits available.

**About Sharp Global**

As part of the globally recognised and trusted Sharp Corporation, we are at the forefront of technical innovation ensuring that we can fulfil all printing and copying requirements.

Our current portfolio of hardware products ranges from space-saving MFPs through to exceptionally versatile high-speed production print systems. We also supply a wide range of software solutions, which combines with our premium level service support to offer our customers a powerful Managed Print Service (MPS). Our IT Services support organisations of all sizes in building and maintaining a reliable and resilient IT infrastructure.