Retail Media Marketing Activation Specialist

**About the role**: Retail Media has been identified as a key enabler of profit growth across JLP and is a priority for the Partnership. We are at the start of an exciting transformation journey to evolve our capability in this space in order to help deliver more personalised experiences to delight our customers and create compelling and impactful Retail Media propositions for our branded partners. As Marketing Activation Specialist within Waitrose Retail Media, you will support the excellent delivery of the annual calendar of initiatives which have been agreed with brands. You will be responsible for a dedicated channel supporting all clients, defining the brief for these brands and briefing into the channel for activation. You will provide activation expert support to continuously improve efficiencies within the Activations team and wider Retail Media team.
- ** Expected salary**:

- £33,800 - £40,000 (dependent on experience).
- ** Contract type** - This position is a Fixed-term/Secondment contract until the end of January 2026
- ** Working pattern/flexible working** - The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you'll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The Activations team meet on Wednesdays and Thursdays in the office to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings.
- ** Location**:

- This role is based at our Bracknell Head Office.

**Key responsibilities**
- You will be responsible for a specific media channel, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to brief retail media campaigns and oversee creative sign off to ensure the activations go live. You will monitor the performance of your channels retail media funded campaigns, managing the preparation of reports to inform Retail Media Sales and Planning team conversations for the plans for the following year.
- You’ll be highly organised with an understanding of and a passion for retail and in particular Media Sales, making use of a variety of best practices to meet objectives set. You'll have strong commercial acumen, natural ability with insight and data, strong communication skills to guide and influence others, and work well under-pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- A strong understanding of advanced Google Sheets functionalities is critical. Through your Profession you will have the opportunity to develop and stretch personally and professionally to achieve your potential.

**Essential skills/experience you’ll need**
- Relevant experience in campaign management
- Evidence of customer orientation, effective stakeholder management and planning and prioritisation
- Experience working with Google Sheets to an advanced level
- Evidence in strong written and verbal communication
- Experience interpreting data for insights

**Desirable skills/experience you may have**
- Further qualifications in marketing or business
- Experience working in a Retail Media environment
- Relevant experience working within the retail sector

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**About The Partnership**:
We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

**Important points to note**:

- We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview._