Senior Marketing Manager

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Job Description

Please note this role is a 12 month maternity cover

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 the 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 developing and executing innovative marketing strategies to amplify brand awareness, foster customer engagement, and boost sales. Your role will be to ensure all campaign and project deliverables (strategy, brief, creative development, execution, launch) deliver against the set objectives, on time and on budget.

Whether it is launching a 360-degree TV campaign to drive fame and shift brand perceptions, a one-off activation that drives talkability and relevance with new audiences or helping to shape the marketing plans of our overall brand and family of sub-brands to drive market growth; as a Brand Marketing Manager in the M&S Clothing & Home Marketing team, you will play a pivotal role in positively shaping the perceptions of our 130 year old brand M&S for today and the future.

• Support the Head of Marketing to develop and execute comprehensive brand strategies and creative briefs that resonate deeply with target audiences and carve out Marks & Spencer's distinct position in the competitive retail landscape.
• Lead the conceptualisation and execution of integrated marketing campaigns across diverse channels including in-store, digital platforms, social media, print, events, TV and VOD etc
• Cultivate strategic partnerships and collaborations with talent and/or fellow brands to amplify Marks & Spencer's brand reach and cultural relevance.
• Uphold consistency in brand voice and tone across all communication channels (across all paid, earned and own channels).
• Deliver comprehensive reporting and actionable insights to internal stakeholders including senior management and agency partners, highlighting brand performance, prevailing trends, and growth opportunities.

Who you are

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Administration, or a related field. An MBA or advanced degree is advantageous.
• Proven track record working in a similar brand marketing role within the retail, fashion, or consumer goods domain.
• A profound understanding of market dynamics, consumer behavior and competitive intricacies.
• Exceptional communication, adept at articulating creative concepts and marketing strategies with conviction.
• Demonstrated proficiency in orchestrating integrated marketing campaigns across diverse channels.

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.