Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.
Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.
Role purpose
The Shopper Marketing Assistant plays a key role in supporting the Shopper Marketing Team to produce and execute in-store promotional material (POS). Driving sales and conversion by implementing clear and engaging POS to help our customers to spot and shop our excellent range of offers and products and providing excellent in store experience.
This role reports to Assistant Marketing Manager for Shopper Marketing at Superdrug Stores Plc.
A typical day in this role includes
- Key internal stakeholders: Wider Marketing team, buyers, store teams
- Key external stakeholders: External agencies and suppliers, ITG, FSU Agency, DHL Parcels
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to manage all promotional POS for ROI stores
- Liaising with buyers to ensure POS reflects accurate pricing
- Working closely with ITG to develop creatives
- Creating clear and engaging footfall driving Point of sale inviting customers to come in and shop our fantastic offers
- Delivery of the Starbuy and Core members POS plan to all Superdrug stores
- Working closely with our key suppliers to gather accurate guidelines
- Understanding the best use of POS in each store space, working closely with and taking feedback from store teams to ensure it’s right for our customers
- Finance admin
- Support wider team with adhoc administrative tasks
This job is a good fit for you if
- You enjoy being creative and would get great satisfaction seeing the output of your work in 800+ stores
- You know you add value through your strong communication skills
- You see your work through a customer’s eyes and understand the right balance of commercial and what’s right for the customer
- You are always striving to improve and drive efficiencies and have the confidence can challenge us with new ideas
- You understand the perspective of others, but you can also influence others to see your point of view
- You have developed a keen attention to detail and take pride in the accuracy of your work
- You are motivated by seeing the output of your work come through in the sales and customer feedback
- You can see the opportunity to learn from any feedback and would thrive in a fast paced, everchanging environment
- You understand the challenges of working in store, so ensure always seek to improve processes with store teams in mind
What you’ll need
- Experience working in retail or similar fast paced environment
- Experience working with Microsoft Office 365
- Marketing degree or equivalent experience in a role
- Passion for Instore Marketing Point of Sale/Fixtures (this is not a digital Marketing role)
- An understanding of marketing retail principles
- Confident energetic approach
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent ability to work to deadline and prioritise workload
- Strong organisation skills
- Problem Solver
- Excellent PC skill
Here's what's in it for you
- 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 Wagestream - 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 who work 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
Come and be part of something special.
