We need motivated people who are ready to bring their whole self to work and give it their all in a fast-paced team committed to being the best. After all, this is not just food… This is M&S Food.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the M&S Marketing team to support in the creation and delivery of category propositions and marketing to drive commercial results!

Key Accountabilities & Measures

• Support Marketing Manager and Head of Category, Events and Stores Marketing to deliver compelling, authentic, customer relevant propositions to support category trade.
• Responsible for planning and delivering authentic, customer relevant seasonal events and cross category campaigns that reflect the overall strategy and priorities of Food Marketing. These must drive footfall to stores, supporting LFL % increase in sales.
• Work collaboratively with Category Marketing Managers, Trading Managers, Product Developers and other collaborators to develop the plans, ensuring they are highly commercial and mindful of operational challenges. Enforce key Trade Planning governance processes and timings.
• Assist in the development of proposition briefs for specific category initiatives that meet commercial objectives and are aligned with key stakeholders. Briefs should reflect the overall strategy and priorities of Food Marketing and category, and should have clear budgets, timings and consumer targets.
• Work closely with all owned marketing channels, Own brand and events team to ensure adequate support is secured for key category propositions and product launches.
• Support campaign PIRs to ensure learnings are captured and set clear recommendations for future activity.
• Support the commercial rhythm, acting with pace to respond to market conditions.

Key skills

• Campaign and project management
• Effective influencing skills and stakeholder management
• Resilience and confident communicator
• Understanding of retail
• High attention to detail

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 strives 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