Assistant Marketing Manager

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Job Description

Please note this role is 12 month fixed term maternity cover

What's in it for you

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We're inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you've completed your probation

• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more

• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours

• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future

• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one

• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal

• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave

• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services

• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

What you'll do

We're looking for an Instore Marketing Assistant Manager to join our team on a 12-month fixed-term contract, supporting the development and delivery of our seasonal in-store marketing strategy within the business unit. Working hands-on, you'll translate strategic Marketing direction into clear, commercial and customer-focused in-store execution, owning product presentation standards, range segmentation and kit usage. Acting as the BU expert for product and space, you'll collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to deliver confident, inspiring and on-brand marketing that enhances the customer journey and drives commercial performance.

• Responsible for all in-store seasonal shoots (SS/AW) including managing POS nominations from all business units.
• Works closely with appropriate stakeholders in marketing and the business units to ensure instore POS deliver against Fashion, Home & Beauty commercial objectives across all channels. Ensuring adherence to brand positioning guidelines across all channels.
• Work closely with the VM team to develop joined up customer experiences in-store, with a focus on ensuring in-store décor and VM work seamlessly together across all stores including New Stores and Renewal Stores
• Work closely with other Marketing Teams to ensure their campaigns and activations are brought to life in store
• Responsible for the delivery of all in-store décor doc and online ordering and making sure POS template packs are correct and fit for purpose
• Demonstrates strategic and commercial approach whilst working through all instore refreshes and changes, demonstrating the ability to understand and deliver against key business strategies and priorities.
• Proven experience with budget management
• Manage the output of the marketing executives to ensure all key milestones are met. Putting in place processes and ways of working to achieve this.

Who you are

• Previous Instore Marketing experience ideally within retail / fashion.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to build relationships across teams and engage effectively with external agency partners
• You are a self-starter who takes initiative and gets things moving - you spot what needs doing without being asked, and bring energy and ownership to everything you work on
• You are naturally creative and curious - you look for fresh angles, bring innovative thinking to briefs, and have an instinct for what will resonate with customers
• You have a genuine curiosity about consumers, culture, and the media landscape - you stay on the pulse of trends and use insight to shape more impactful, relevant work

Everyone's Welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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About the Team

From Merchandising and Marketing - Product Development and Design, through to Supply Chain and Space Planning - our mission is to bring stylish wardrobe, home and beauty essentials to our customers via an easy, inspiring shopping experience online and in store that will delight them every time.

As we accelerate the transformation of our business to suit the changing needs of our customer, we need results-driven colleagues that not only have a passion for our product, but a strong team working ethos, creativity and a healthy commercial drive to join us on our journey.