Trader and Shopper Marketing Lead (GB and Ireland)

Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own brand activation across GB and Ireland by turning strategy into trade and shopper plans, while preserving premium positioning and driving ROI across online and in-store touchpoints.

  • Brand Activation ownership: lead cross-functional teams and partner with retailers to plan localised promotions and content.
  • Trade marketing execution: align with Sales Directors and key accounts on annual promotions and briefs, measuring ROI across displays and digital activation.
  • Content and assets: oversee localisation of digital content, print materials, and campaigns for customer journeys, events, and retail activity.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • You will lead the Brand Activation team across GB and Ireland.
  • In close collaboration with Marketing, Sales and Digital teams, you translate marketing and sales strategy into trade and shopper marketing plans
  • In partnership with retail partners and internal teams, you plan promotional activity that improves the customer journey across online and in-store touchpoints
  • With a focus on commercial performance, you evaluate return on investment across retailer marketing activity, displays, digital activation and promotional investment
  • In collaboration with business-to-business Sales Directors and key account teams, you support annual promotional planning with major retail partners
  • Through clear briefs and close teamwork, you guide the creation and localisation of digital content, print materials and campaign assets for customer touchpoints, events and retail activity
  • Across all shopper and trade marketing activity, you protect Miele’s brand guidelines and premium positioning while supporting engaging customer communications

Requirements

  • Extensive demonstrable experience in trade marketing, shopper marketing, brand activation or sales marketing within a premium, luxury or consumer-focused environment
  • Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to connect customer insight, retailer needs and business performance
  • Confident communication skills, with the ability to write clearly, present ideas and build effective relationships across teams and external partners
  • Broad digital marketing knowledge, including campaign management, social media, performance marketing, ecommerce, customer relationship marketing or content development
  • A customer-first mindset, with the ability to support premium brand experiences across multiple touchpoints
  • A relevant marketing qualification or equivalent practical experience that supports strong strategic and executional marketing work

Benefits

  • A salary of up to £55,000 plus a competitive benefits package
  • A bonus scheme of up to 2 months’
  • Extensive discounts on Miele products for yourself, family and friends
  • A variety of extensive benefits including Private medical insurance, financial advice, recognition schemes, discounted gym membership, subsidised onsite café or lunch allowance and more.
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Miele

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Since being founded in 1899 Miele has followed its 'Immer Besser' brand promise.As the world’s leading manufacturer of premium domestic appliances, we create delightful experiences – not only with regard to the quality of our products, but also in terms of performance, convenience, design and sustainability. For our customers, this means the peace of mind of knowing that choosing Miele is a good decision – and probably the decision of a lifetime.Our product portfolio includes kitchen appliances such as ovens, steam ovens, refrigerators, coffee machines and dishwashers as well as vacuum cleaners, washing machines and dryers. Dishwashers, washer-extractors and tumble dryers for commercial use as well as washer-disinfectors and sterilisers for use in medical applications augment this line-up. Miele is a family-run company in the fourth generation with eight production plants in Germany as well as one plant each in Austria, the Czech Republic, China and Romania. The company is represented with its own sales subsidiaries and via importers in almost 100 countries. In the 2020 fiscal year, the Miele Group achieved sales of 4.5 bn, 6.5% more than in 2019. Miele employs around 20,944 people worldwide.

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574K
Traffic Source Mix
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33.4%
Direct
45.8%
Referral
18.4%
Social
1.4%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.7K

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