Marketing Specialist, Communications

**About The Role**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Marketing Department as a Communications Specialist.

A key member of the Marketing Communications team, the post holder will focus on coordinating and executing the delivery of national campaigns across TV, radio, press, OOH, leaflets, and direct mail, to clearly deliver relevant trade and brand messaging to meet a national and/or local brief.

This position follows a hybrid model with a 4.5 day working week*.

Our teams work from our vibrant head office in Bradford for three days and remotely for a day and a half, Monday to Friday.

Hilmore House, our head office, offers convenient amenities, including a subsidised on-site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, a prayer room, free parking, and frequent company wide events and promotions.

Applicants should live within a reasonable commuting distance of our office.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

- Deliver marketing communication activity on time, in full, accurately, on brand and on budget
- Ensure clarity of messaging and delivering against objectives of each piece of activity
- Build and maintain successful relationships both internally and with external agency teams.
- Receiving and challenging briefs from the planning team.
- Giving accurate briefs and amending and critiquing own work.
- Clearly communicate our trade driving deals, event packages and products, services and brand messaging most relevant for customers to drive a desired behaviour.
- Work on multiple pieces of activity across multiple channels at one time, managing your own changeable and reactive workload.
- Driving consistency across the work the wider Marketing department delivers and your own.
- Thoroughly QAing content before printing and or supplying and working with internal teams to ensure correct sign off

**About The Company**:
Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.

Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.

We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.

Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you

Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;
- Generous holiday entitlement
- 4 and a half day working week with flexible working hours
- Company pension contributions
- Perks with over 850 retailers
- Free parking onsite
- A range of family friendly policies including 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave along with neonatal and fertility leave

**About You**: We’ve built an incredibly diverse business, and we’re working hard to make sure we truly represent the communities we serve. One of the best things about working with so many different people is having the opportunity to listen, learn and connect with lots of different views, perspectives and beliefs. For this role, we’re looking for someone who has:

- Experience of owning campaigns and working across the key Marketing Communications channels in a retail environment.
- Technical knowledge of print and artworking processes
- Clear communication skills - verbal, written & numerical
- Must be highly organised and able to prioritise workload
- Passionate and committed to delivering great quality work with a keen and thorough attention to detail
- Ability to flex to the changing needs of the business
- Ability to build strong internal and external relationships at all levels with the ability to influence
- Customer focussed with a positive attitude
- Experience of working in fast paced environment with lots of change
- The desire to increase your Marketing and media knowledge