Campaign Marketing Executive

• Job Title – Campaign Marketing Executive
• Location – BL9 8RR
• Working rota – Monday - Friday
• Working hours – 40 hours
• Working model – 4 days working from offer, 1 day working from home

Role Overview:
Support in the delivery of global, multichannel marketing campaigns for JD, aligned to campaign and brand vision and strategy. Work closely with Campaign leads and cross-functional team to ensure smooth flow of information and comms across all relevant stakeholders, partners and departments.

Key Duties / Responsibilities:

• Developing excellent working relationships with all stakeholders, partners & market/regional teams, working cross functionally.
• Delivering administrative support i.e. saving all campaign files (creative, pre-production and final assets) on server, ensuring version control or managing campaign usage terms, notifying team once terminated to ensure all assets removed. Creating new templates and instruction manuals on how to complete correctly.
• Assisting in report building, reaching out to relevant teams and stakeholders to gather relevant information for campaigns.
• Assist in tracking campaign budgets, ensuring budgets are met and campaigns are cost-effective.
• Managing ad-hoc requests from key stakeholders i.e. managing additional usage requests on imagery.
• Co-ordinating with the key departments and local markets to develop and deliver detailed campaign critical paths and complete deliverables list – ensuring all key campaign timings and product stories are captured, kept up-to-date and aligned with other key marketing activity.
• Ensuring smooth delivery of all assigned tasks/projects, delivered on time. Assisting with campaign timelines and chasing deadlines.
• Communicating campaign status, escalating any potential issues and working to resolve
• Proactively managing the JD Main Campaign calendar, diarising stakeholder meetings and presentations
• Supporting in roll-out, working with Int’l land channel leads across Retail, Creative, VM, Studio, ODM and other channels.
• Share suggestions and ideas with the team to enrich projects, sharing proactive research and discovered insights. Maintaining knowledge of the industry trends, competitor activities and consumer behaviour to inform campaign planning.
• Utilise learnings, insights and knowledge gained on each project to inform and enhance each subsequent project.
• Support sample management, working with the Buying team to ensure samples are received on time and are correct.
• Assists in campaign pre-production planning for example comms with int’l and channel leads to collate deliverables and ensure needs are captured.

Skills / Experience / Knowledge needed:

• Effective and personable communicator, spoken and written, to proactively organise, influence and build strong, positive working relationships. A real team player.
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional time management skills, able to prioritise, multitask and work to deadlines with excellent attention to detail.
• Solutions-orientated with proven ability to use initiative to attain swift successful outcomes.
• Fluent English written & speaking. Additional languages an advantage.
• Mac/PC literate; good working knowledge of Microsoft office including Excel, Word, keynote/PPT.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.
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