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About Matalan

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About the role

As our Marcomms Campaign Manager, you will effectively translate strategic trade plans into individual campaign briefs; owning seasonal campaigns end to end ensuring that creative communications are aligned across all channels.

What you will do:

• Translate Phase Briefs (from Trade Planning) into key event/moment Campaign Briefs.
• Build brief with and deliver briefing to internal creative teams and external agencies.
• Manage the campaign development end-to-end, from initial briefing and campaign ideation to final creative development.
• Understand the objective & intent of different channels within any campaign.
• Work with the channel leads to ensure all the relevant assets are available on time.
• Manage the critical path, ensuring all campaigns are delivered in a timely manner.
• Consolidate campaign creative in to briefing packs to share with the trade exec.

About You

• Previous experience in Marketing, Communications, and/or Insight & Planning roles
• Ideally, but not essential, has worked in both client-side and agency environments
• Strong understanding of retail, with exposure to fashion retail being a plus
• Proficient in brief writing and development of communication platforms
• Skilled in briefing and collaborating effectively with agency partners
• Demonstrated ability to maximize results through strong collaboration and partnership with agencies

Benefits

In addition to competitive salaries, we also offer the below core benefits:

• 20% staff discount, which increases with length of service
• Thrive Recognition Scheme
• Wellbeing support provided by the Retail Trust
• Life Assurance
• Retail Rewards platform offering discounts for other retailers
• Pension Scheme
• Access to a wide range of career development
• Additional benefits may apply depending on your role and area of the business