Assistant Shopper Marketing Manager

Croydon, UK (Hybrid)

£28K/yr – £32K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end in-store marketing campaigns from planning through production, ensuring accurate communications, collaboration with stakeholders, budget management, and process improvements.

  • Own in-store marketing plans and briefs
  • Drive production, supplier collaboration, and cost savings

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create best-in-class in-store marketing plans that attract and retain customers while driving conversion.
  • Collaborate with and challenge Commercial and Own Brand teams, suppliers and agencies to produce promotional material that drives sales.
  • Manage the day-to-day production of point-of-sale material through external agencies and suppliers.
  • Ensure key strategic promotions are communicated effectively and consistently throughout stores.
  • Produce inspiring and engaging briefs for studio artwork teams, agencies and suppliers.
  • Deliver accuracy across all in-store customer communications.
  • Coordinate the distribution of point-of-sale material from creation through to stores.
  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with Store Support, Commercial teams, suppliers and agencies.
  • Identify solutions and processes that improve efficiency and ways of working.
  • Manage agreed budgets and timescales, confidently negotiate supplier costs and track savings.

Requirements

  • Bring previous experience from a fast-paced marketing, operational, visual merchandising, retail or point-of-sale agency environment.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of in-store marketing, point-of-sale material and fixtures, as this is not a digital marketing role.
  • Have excellent communication, organisation and attention-to-detail skills.
  • Be confident, energetic and able to work to deadlines while prioritising a busy workload.
  • Be proactive, adaptable and solutions-focused, with the ability to work independently.
  • Have basic financial knowledge and excellent PC skills.
  • Hold a marketing degree or have equivalent relevant experience.

Preferred

  • Ideally have previous people-management experience or a natural ability to nurture and develop others.

Benefits

  • 33 days holiday, rising to 38 days with length of service, inclusive of bank holidays
  • 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
  • 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand products, both in store and online
  • Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities, with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
  • Company pension matching and bonus
  • We offer Stream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
  • Being part of more! We are part of a group that works closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
  • We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer, with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
  • Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
  • Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave, company sick pay, and pregnancy loss support
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Our vision is to be the best in everyday accessible beauty and health. It’s our mission to be our customers first choice for up to the minute beauty and health, loved for value, choice and friendly advice, online and instore. We stock the biggest beauty and health brands, as well as exclusive brands and products that can only be found at Superdrug. We’re proud of our Own Brands, from Studio London cosmetics to B. Skin, we believe that efficacy and value can work together to deliver incredible results. Our Own Brand products are cruelty free and carry the leaping bunny logo, certified by Cruelty Free International. Our Healthcare teams deliver instore and online services to patients up and down the country. From free blood pressure checks to travel vaccinations and phlebotomy services to Online Doctor, we support thousands of customers every week. Our Beauty Studios continue to grow rapidly, offering a range of services from piercing to Hair cuts in our biggest Beauty Studios. Superdrug is part of AS Watson Group, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer operating over 17,000 stores under 12 retail brands in 31 markets, with over 130,000 employees worldwide. For the fiscal year 2024, AS Watson Group recorded revenue of over US$24 billion. Every year, it is serving over 6 billion shoppers via its O+O (Offline plus Online) platforms, providing tech-enabled retail experience to customers offline and online.

Founded in 1964
Croydon, England, GBR
8.6K employees
47% recommend to a friend
73% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
10M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$14.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
61.3%
Direct
33.8%
Referral
3.3%
Social
0.8%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~8.6K

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