- Job Title – Third-Party Brand Executive – Size?
- Location – Bury
- Working rota – Monday - Friday
- Working hours – 40 hours
- Working Model – 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home
Role overview:
We’re a team on a mission to ensure size? is perfectly positioned to allow us to raise our profile and maximize opportunities from our organic social, third-party partnerships, talent, and retail channels to drive commercial results. As Third-Party Brand Manager senior your part is to ensure we treat our third-party brands as our own, to secure and maximise every partner opportunity. Forging emotional connections that boost brand awareness and market share by creating a bond with our audiences.
Reporting to the Third-Party Brand Manager, your role will be to manage Third Party Brands (3PB) and campaigns, working alongside our key partner brands to launch product and cultural campaigns on time and in budget across retail and online. You will use your varied skills to advance the size? brand by delivering best in class marketing initiatives, positioning size? as the partner of choice for the market leading streetwear brands.
You will be responsible for delivering cohesive campaigns in line with the size? brand by working with extended marketing teams such as creative, social, multichannel (Paid, CRM, Digital, Trade), retail and buying and merchandising teams to bring the assigned partner brand and product to life. You’ll need to be comfortable working to rigours brand standards, have a creative flare, plus superb organisational skills to excel in this role.
Key responsibilities:
- Plan, develop and execute size? 3PB marketing requirements that align with marketing goals and objectives across all channels.
- You’ll support on the management of 3PB and lead on allocated campaigns and ensure that both retail and online have strong representation to help drive awareness to the size? consumer.
- Develop an understanding of campaign KPIs and striving to deliver best in class activity.
- Log all campaign costs ensuring campaigns stay within allocated budget. Learn the group finance process to track costs from campaign start to finish.
- Consistently propose innovative ideas for campaigns to feed into brand pitches to help ensure contribution targets are met.
- Grow strong relationships with external suppliers and agencies.
- Maintain the upkeep of the 3PB calendar.
- Spend time understanding and working collaboratively with key business stakeholders such as retail, digital, social, merchandising, and creative.
- Get involved with influencer marketing outreach when required. Constantly on the hunt for new talent.
- Stock removals management.
- Openness to work flexible hours when necessary to attend and manage brand events, oversee campaign shoots, or retail installations.
Skills, experience, and knowledge required:
- Organized with strong attention to detail.
- Hands on experience of managing and delivering marketing campaigns.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with influencer marketing.
- The ability to work in a fast-moving environment as part of a collaborative team.
- A willingness to learn new skills.
- Proficient with all relevant computer software MS office or Keynote etc.
- A keen interest in streetwear fashion and sneaker brands is advantageous.
- Hold a valid driving license and passport and be prepared to travel throughout the UK and internationally.
The Company:
The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.
We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.
To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.
We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:
- Incremental Holiday Allowance
- Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
- Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
- Discounted Gym membership
- Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
- Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications
Interested?
If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.
Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
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Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.
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