Assistant Marketing Manager

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Job Description

As the Campaigns Assistant Brand Marketing Manager for Marks & Spencer, you hold a pivotal role in driving the brand's identity, values, and messaging to target audiences. You're tasked with driving the implementation of marketing activations to amplify brand awareness, customer engagement and boost sales.

Your role will be to execute all campaign and project deliverables against the set objectives on time.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

We have a flexible / hybrid approach - talk to us about part time or job share opportunities in this role, if it's meaningful to you, it's important to us.

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - becoming a part and playing your part. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special...

• 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third party branded products for you and one member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days.
• We have discretionary bonus schemes depending on your role and our business performance.
• Get cover for twice your salary up to age 70 (double with our Pension Plan).
• We'll help you save through our Pension Savings Plan, Share Buy and Sharesave schemes.
• Save on everyday costs through discounts and offers and get access to great health benefits.
• Bike/accessory hire with Cycle to Work and save on tax and national insurance.
• Buy the latest technology with interest-free financing directly from your salary.
• Get access to resources to support your wellbeing, including a free virtual GP service.
• Support your favourite charities by donating through your pay or volunteering for them.
• Industry-leading maternity, paternity, adoption and neo-natal policies, providing support and flexibility for you and your family.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include:

Managing the end-to-end process of campaigns through:

• Supporting the development of best-in-class briefs through key learnings and competitor analysis'
• Leading channel activations from development to launch
• Leading product with key stakeholders from nomination to launch
• Owning the critical path, keeping stakeholders and systems up to date and working through any barriers
• Owning key documentation to keep accurate and up to date
• Lead PIR's to understand key learnings and influence future activations

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Creative vision: A strong passion for storytelling and brand elevation
• Excelling planning: You're pro-active, organised and structured to have the ability to effectively manage multiple campaigns successfully
• Outstanding attention to detail: You care about the small things that make a big difference and have accountability for your output
• Collaboration: You collaborate well with a wide range of business stakeholders regardless of level. You can drive key meetings and follow ups to galvanise teams behind a shared goal by communicating clearly and articulately to manage expectations and deadlines.
• Solutions-led: Able to remove blockers from achieving the business goals
• Flexible: You have an agile approach to support our evolving and growing business. You roll up your sleeves when needed for the good of the team.

Everyone's welcome

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That's why we're revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There's never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.

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