Marketing Assistant Beauty

Job Introduction

Selfridges is a social centre where everyone is welcome. We surprise, amaze and amuse our customers everyday by doing the unexpected, celebrating those special moments and inspiring one another. We are the destination for the most extraordinary customer experience unrivalled with products and services ranging from high street to high end.

Support the Beauty Marketing Team with delivering the Beauty Strategy, with particular focus upon project management of the beauty real estate promotional calendar and support in delivering annual Beauty Real estate and Brand Contribution targets

Role Responsibility

Based in our Wigmore Street offices you’ll provide a unique and tailored service in Marketing team to customers internally and externally, going beyond the ordinary to create moments that cannot be experienced elsewhere. Our customers expect extraordinary service delivered by people with a genuine passion for what they do and to share their unparalleled level of knowledge whilst taking enormous pride in maintaining our exceptionally high standards.

Working in the Marketing Team you’ll share your knowledge through unique Selfridges stories.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Brand Contribution / Real Estate

• Work as one team with the Partnerships Project manager and Fashion Project Coordinator to get an overall view of real estate and Brand contribution
• Work with the Assistant Beauty marketing Manager, Buying teams and partnerships project manager to strategically plan and project manage the Beauty real Estate and promotional site calendar
• Coordinate and attend weekly meetings with both Buying and Visual Merchandising to help determine the best commercial decisions to drive the business through Brand site and real estate opportunities
• Support selling of internal real estate sites to support the beauty category and to meet the set annual commercial beauty target for real estate
• Plan attribution of period Real Estate targets with key internal stakeholders, project management delivery of period and annual targets

Analysis and Insight

• Support the Beauty category team in delivering quarterly external analysis and insights reports that will help define the on-going overall Beauty Strategy.
• Familiarisation with the internal analytics dashboard to support on the above

Category administration

• Supporting with completing relevant general admin documentation which includes Weekly Trade slide, Monthly Preview Overview, Business review sheets
• Create and maintain the annual trading calendar for the category pinpointing key exclusives which will allow the category a full view of support needed for the year
• Support collation of Wash Up documents from bi internal and Brand campaigns
• Work with the beauty category team to determine the key communication channels across all of exclusive launches/ Brands

The Ideal Candidate

Your passion and confidence will set you apart. While consulting with the Digital Team you’ll take real pride in delivering a personalised and professional service. Bringing your personality to the service experience you will always look to genuinely connect with your customers while thinking creatively to bring your ideas to life. As well as having the ability to work well as part of a team, you’ll be willing to embrace opportunities to build your skills in order to offer quality and reassurance to all of our internal and external customers.

KEY COMPETENCIES

EXPERIENCE

• Beauty marketing skills preferred
• Some experience of customer relationship platforms would be beneficial
• 2 years + of beauty industry preferred
• Proven project management experience within a retail environment
• Competent in work, Excel, PowerPoint

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES/ BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS:

• Demonstrates initiative and drive
• Persistent, resilient, resourceful and methodical work style with a ‘can do’ attitude and strong focus upon delivery
• Team player
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong Communication skills at all levels
• Demonstrates confidence in abilities
• Committed problem solver
• Exemplary planning and organisational skills
• Capable of developing strong relationships with key stakeholders

About the Company

We are a shop run on imagination: a place where the world’s most covetable brands combine with the most extraordinary spectacles, events and ideas for an experience like no other.

We have challenged the rules of retail from day one, whilst demonstrating our unwavering commitment to sustainability.  In 2016, we were the first to be awarded with recognition for the ‘World’s Best Sustainability Campaign by a Department Store’ at the IGDS Global Department Store Summit, in-line with its focus on buying better and inspiring change. We are also recognised as the Best Department Store in the World (2010, 2012, 2014 & 2018) underlining our place at the forefront of retail. In 2018 we were recognised as a LinkedIn Top Company to work for.

Our vision is to be the destination for the most extraordinary customer experience, and our people are central to us achieving this.  As an employer we are committed to making Selfridges an exciting, inspiring and fun place to work

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