Senior Retail Marketing Manager (Mat Cover)

The Bicester; Bicester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury retail outlet in Bicester is seeking a Senior Retail Marketing Manager to develop and execute marketing strategies. The role involves building relationships with brands, managing the retail marketing budget, and ensuring high-quality marketing activations. Candidates should possess a degree in Marketing and strategic leadership experience, especially with luxury or mass market brands. Strong relationship building and project management skills are vital, along with proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Qualifications

• Degree education or equivalent qualifications focused on Marketing is preferable.
• Previous experience at a strategic leadership level with luxury or mass market brands.
• Strong understanding of different audiences and customer behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the retail marketing strategy for the Village.
• Build and maintain work relationships with brands.
• Manage the retail marketing budget and monitor costs.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Relationship building

Project management

Communication skills

Fluency in English

Education

Degree in Marketing or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the role

As our Senior Retail Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for developing and executing the retail marketing strategy for the Village. You will build and maintain close work relationships with brands to foster the collaboration on marketing activitations. You will also monitor the marketing activations to ensure that they are planned and delivered in high quality and compile reports to analyse the performance of each activation accordingly.

Key responsibilities

The key responsibilities of this role will include some or all the following.

• Be responsible for the development and execution of retail marketing strategy for the Village
• Build and maintain close work relationships with Brands to enhance the brands’ positioning of the Village
• Reinforce the trust of our brand partners, deliver 5-starts marketing services to our brands and keep raising the bar
• Stay up to date to the knowledge of brands and understanding of products, from global luxury brands to local mass marketing brands
• Develop 360° retail marketing plans to achieve the financial goals, bringing together in village experience and brand activation moments, including new brand openings
• Plan the retail marketing commercial activations adopting the Product Is King approach to reinforce our unique proposition
• Manage the retail marketing activations from end to end and ensure that they are at high quality; conduct after action reviews after each activation
• Plan and execute with excellence the measured success of all in village activations and events, with the objective to drive qualitative footfall into the village and into the Boutiques
• Manage the Retail Marketing Budget and monitor the costs of each activation
• Prepare insightful reportings of each initiative, including the achievement of KPIs, return on investment and suggestions for continuous improvement
• Analyse the brands’ performance; identify opportunities and impact on the business’ results through integrated plans in coordination with Retail, Marketing, Hospitality teams and other departments.
• Collaborate with the local and central teams to ensure consistency and full alignment with the central guidelines and the objectives of the business
• Lead the Retail Marketing team and be responsible for the team’s performance and development

About You

We are looking for an individual who can display the following experience and skills:

• Degree education or equivalent qualifications with a focus on Marketing is preferrable
• Previous experience at a strategic leadership level with luxury or mass market brands
• Computer literate and high proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Ability to think strategically and perform operationally
• Strong understanding on different audiences and customer behaviors
• Exceptional relationship building skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to get the buy in
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to both plan and execute multiple projects simultaneously
• Good organisation and prioritization skills
• Fluent in English and local Village language, any other European language would be beneficial

Bicester, GB, OX26 6WD

Full Time