Brand Relations Marketing Manager

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Job Description

What's in it for you?

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

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

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

As a Brand Relations Marketing Manager in the Brands at M&S team, you will play a pivotal role in driving the vision to shape perceptions of our 140-year-old brand M&S for today and the future.

In this role you will be part of the team that aims to inspire, drive style and commerciality across our brands business. You will manage brand relationships, work with internal teams, and external stakeholders to ensure seamless development and execution of joint marketing initiatives to boost awareness & consideration of our branded offer.

Your strategic thinking, project management, organisational skills, and ability to build strong relationships will be crucial to your success in this role.

• You will be the Marketing Relationships Lead for our top-tier third-party brand & concession partners
• Tasked with driving overall awareness & consideration of the Brands at M&S proposition through developing strategic marketing plans for our key brand partners; both at and beyond launch
• Working collaboratively with CX & Commercial teams to outline, develop & implement our value added services proposition for Brand partners, in order to unlock mutually beneficial funded opportunities to drive growth
• You will own the marketing onboarding process for our top tier brand partners
• Work closely with your marketing lead peers across brand and digital to drive longer-term customer acquisition, engagement & retention through ongoing activity which embeds them into the Brands at M&S family

Who you are

• Proven experience working with brand partners and managing partner relationships / understanding of the third party landscape
• Proven track record of marketing roles within branded fashion retail
• Creatively minded, both in terms of campaign planning and thinking outside the box to create brand awareness and acquire and engage customers
• Ability to work collaboratively across departments- ideally experience within a matrix organisation
• Comfortable owning high level strategy decisions and presenting to a Board of Directors

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 Us

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the 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 smart/flexible working.

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.