Marketing Specialist - Instore Communications in Bradford

In this role you’ll be part of a team that creates and manages in store point of sale from nominations to printing. You will become the expert within your team for the allocated categories and areas of store, understanding key communications challenges and customer requirements in order to deliver effective point of sale to solve business problems and drive sales. You will also need the ability to react to the market quickly,ensuring we always put our best foot forward.

This is a permanent opportunity.

Work/Life balance is important to us. This role benefits from a  4 day working week. The typical working pattern is 4 days per week of 9 hours per day, based in our Bradford Head Office.

There is also a requirement to work 1 in 4 Saturdays (6 hours). 

This role holds the following responsibilities;

• Working with your marketing colleagues, retail operations and other key stakeholders to ensure that the retail marketing plan is fully supported and activated in store - ensuring customer experience is at the heart of your work

• Seeking insight into how customers have experienced the campaign in store and build into learnings for future events

• Seeking insight into customer trends and needs to shape marketing plans for category support, including range

• Being an active participant of a high performing, engaged and diverse teams, focused on compelling communication, service, sales and profitability

• Working closely with retail and the marketing communications specialist to ensure communications to store on implementation of POS is clear and concise to our store colleagues in delivering a successful execution of the POS

• Working with compliance to ensure that all communication is legal, honest and truthful

• Driving down cost and operational waste to ensure that ROI is maximised and savings found where possible –sending to print on time and without errors –challenging costs.

Key Requirements;

• Substantial experience of real customer exposure, ideally from working in a store

• Proven track record of delivering in a large organisation

• Analytical and creative thinking skills

• Commercial and financial understanding

• The ability to look for ways to improve customer satisfaction, profitability and productivity

• The ability to work cross-functionally and in a team to land projects

• A team player with a positive attitude

• The ability to work under tight time constraints and reactively

Marketing is a fast-paced, high energy function that drives sales by putting the customer at the heart of everything we do. The marketing team are our brand champions, making sure we give customers what they want, at prices they like, and delivering an experience that's always unmistakably Morrisons. The team pioneers and delivers industry-leading work in a collaborative and friendly environment with a forward-thinking, people-focused culture. Work is always challenging, frequently fun, and the career prospects are exciting.

Our aim to offer more of what matters extends to our employees too. Join us and you can expect to enjoy great career prospects and a very competitive pay and benefits package. In addition to an attractive salary, we offer a discount card for you plus two more for friends or family members giving you 10% off your shopping in Morrisons. We also offer company share options, a highly competitive pension scheme, Life Assurance and more besides.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.