Marketing Specialist, Convenience

**About The Role**:
You will become the expert within your team for the convenience store environment, understanding key communications challenges and customer requirements in order to deliver effective marketing support to solve business problems and drive sales.

You will also need the ability to react to the market quickly, ensuring we always put our best foot forward.

This is a full time, permanent position which 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.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

- Ensuring that campaign communications across multiple marketing channels are executed on time and in full, delivering compelling messaging to customers. Inclusive of writing briefs, developing content and seeking internal stakeholder sign off.
- Working with your marketing colleagues, retail operations, trading planning and Media Centre team plus other key stakeholders to ensure that the retail marketing plan is fully supported and activated in store, whilst balancing the need to safeguard the customer shopping experience.
- Management of costs associated with all marketing channel activity.
- Continually reviewing processes to ensure we drive down cost and operational waste to maximise return on investment.
- Seeking insight into how customers have experienced the campaign in store and build into learnings for future events
- Being an active participant of a high performing, engaged and diverse teams,focused on compelling communication, service, sales and profitability
- Driving down cost and operational waste to ensure that ROI is maximised and savings found where possible -sending to print on time and without errors - challenging costs.

**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 managing marketing or communications in a commercially driven environment, preferably retail is essential.
- Strong relationship building skills with the ability to negotiate with and influence others to achieve desired outcomes.
- Ability to coach and lead others to deliver a common goal as well as be a team player.
- Numerical, presentation and verbal skills; a clear communicator.
- Must be highly organised and able to prioritise workload
- Passionate and committed to delivering great quality work with exceptional attention to detail.
- Customer focussed with a positive attitude
- Experience of working in fast paced environment with lots of change
- Proven track record of delivering in a large organisation
- Commercial and financial understanding
- Analytical and creative thinker with the ability to look for ways to improve customer satisfaction, profitability and productivity
- The ability to work cross-functionally and in a team to land projects