What you’ll be doing…
This is an exciting opportunity to work within Marketforce’s retail team.
The team is the face of Marketforce at retail and is responsible for delivering and helping to shape publisher newsstand strategies with retailers. It is an opportunity to develop skills in providing effective commercial deals and learn the basics of good planning, creative solutions, and strong negotiations.
You will provide planning, administrative, and promotional support to nominated accounts within the retail team. This job is important in supporting the National Account Managers to ensure we implement our publisher’s plans and deliver sales objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
Coordinating and communicating with retail group head offices, circulation managers, and sales team members on all promotions, invoices, all other administrative requests, and ad-hoc activities and managing the internal range process for key retail groups.
This role works alongside the Senior National Account Manager and Associate National Account Manager to drive the profitable sales of Marketforce titles at Tesco, Asda, M&S, Spar, and Irish retailers delivering :
- Strong in-store promotions
- Good promotional offers
- A high share of range
- Good supply management to maximise availability
Experience that will put you ahead of the curve…
- Strong attention to detail and a tenacity to push activity through.
- Be computer literate with excellent attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines.
- Passionate about working within a retail environment and engaging with internal departments to deliver client’s needs.
- Highly organised, able to prioritise and work to tight time-tables
- Good, clear communication in written and verbal form . Effective presentation skills and clear creative thinking to give opportunities the best opportunity to succeed.
- Problem-solving ability- taking ownership of a problem, proactive, common sense steps to resolve
- Experience of Google sheets /docs/slides would be an advantage
What’s in it for you…
We have a number of awesome perks available to our staff. We offer huge opportunities to learn and develop, whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues. We have a fantastic culture where we really do care about our people and want everyone to succeed. Varied roles mean you’re not pigeonholed in to one finite area but get the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills and experience
And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every colleague is eligible to join our profit pool bonus scheme - if Future hits their performance targets all colleagues may receive a bonus.
Internal job family level P8
The expected range for this role is £24,000 - £24,000
This is a Hybrid role from our Cardiff Office, working three days from the office, two from home
Who are we…
We’re Future. We’re 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We’ve got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.
Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future
We have a voice and we’re going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We’re an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness.
Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made so we can give you the best experience!
Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.
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