Marketing Executive - Peterborough, United Kingdom - Smart Recruit Online Limited

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Are you analytical? Can you analyse data and retail trends? Are you someone who can use your fantastic planning and organisational skills to set up and support delivering retail promotions?

Then this could be the job for you


We are looking for a positive, numerate individual to join our busy, friendly Newstrade Marketing team as our Marketing Executive.

Reporting to the Group Newstrade Marketing Manager, this great opportunity is offered as a full-time, permanent position.


As our Marketing Executive, you'll be responsible for providing vital admin support, understanding market conditions, analysing sales and retail trends, and both the planning and implementation of retail promotions.

You will use your excellent communication skills to liaise with our publishing teams and external companies.


Your proactive approach will enable you to support our Group Newstrade Marketing Manager in proposing sales-driving ideas to the team.

Drawing on your planning and organisational skills, you will manage collating information to help shape and deliver ourretail strategy.


The key headline areas of responsibility and tasks as our Marketing Executive are as follows:

  • Forecasting weekly sales on a wide range of magazine titles
  • Liaising with publishing teams to provide product information to external and internal personnel
  • Assisting the team with business planning and budgeting
  • Creating weekly sales reports
  • Ensuring centralised databases are up to date
  • Analysing market and retail data to provide support to the Newstrade team in decisionmaking process
  • Planning and implementing retail promotional bookings

Benefits


At the Frontline Group we offer great training and a range of salary sacrifice flexible benefits which you can select based on your lifestyle; benefit options include private medical insurance, holiday purchase and a tech scheme to name a few.


On top of that we also offer:

  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata)
  • Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
  • Coaching with accredited coaches
  • Hybrid working
  • 2 paid days to volunteer for a registered charity

Essential Skills
Our ideal applicant will be able to demonstrate the following skills and qualities:

  • Excellent analytical and numeracy skills
  • Good use of MS Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
  • Adaptable and resourceful
  • Strong time management and organisational skills
  • First class attention to detail

About Company
The Frontline Group is made up of Frontline, Seymour, Gold Key Media, and Routes to Retail. We're the market-leading UK distributor and the biggest global exporter of magazines.


This means in your career you will have the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting and iconic magazine brands as well as on titles that operate with highly engaged and passionate audiences.

Our publishers produce market-leading brands such asRadio Times, Good Housekeeping, Closer, Autocar, Paw Patrol, Grazia, Vogue, Slimming World, Match of the Day, National Geographic and many more.


As a distributor we work closely with UK and international retailers, wholesale, international distributors, and other parts of the supply chain to ensure our publishers sales, retail marketing, and distribution objectives are met.

The Frontline Group is owned by two of the world's leading publishing companies, Bauer Media and Immediate Media Company.

This will give you the opportunity to grow your career across a number of different businesses and functions, including trade marketing,publishing, brand marketing, sales, finance, and supply chain.

We strongly believe in developing our own people and have a great track record of taking people from account executive level through to senior positions within the Group.


Our teams are made up of the most talented and widely respected people in our industry and are seen as the experts in their fields.

At the Frontline Group we celebrate our differences and seek to ensure everyone feels welcome, trusted, and valued for beingtheir authentic selves.


Bring 'You' to the interview
Diversity and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do.

We want to make sure that our selection processes are as fair as they can possibly be, providing a level playing field for anyone who wants to come and work with us.

Therefore, if you requireany adjustments to an interview process, please feel free to get in touch with
- who will be happy to discuss your needs in complete confidence and we will do everything we can to make this a fair opportunity.


We want to make sure that we find the best people to work in our teams, and one of the ways we do this by ensuring that all our roles reflect a hybrid approach, a combination of in-office and remote working.


Want to see what our people say about working for us? Head on over to our website work-with-us to find out more.


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