Marketing Co-ordinator

About the opportunity

We are currently recruiting a Marketing Co-ordinator to join our busy Marketing team. Reporting into the In-Store Marketing Manager, your role will help to support the team to deliver the business Customer Activity Plan.

The Marketing Co-ordinator is an ideal role for someone keen to make a career within Marketing and has a general interest in marketing and social media.

The role is based at our Customer Support Centre (CSC) in Walsall, with the ability to work agile between 'home' and the CSC.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

What you'll be doing...

• Working alongside the Line Manager to brief creative for in-store activity with a focus on promotional space, online leaflets and digital marketing
• Supporting with Retail communications, adding relevant detail to documents across Poundland
• Supporting local marketing for new stores and formats e.g., Poundland Local
• Visiting stores for competitor images to be used within reviews
• Working with the printers for POS reprints for new stores and library
• Owning the marketing helpdesk emails to ensure minimum backlog and stores get what they need
• Attending Pep&Co fashion shoots and supporting with lifestyle shoots for Poundland (Pep&Co Home and seasonal events)
• Organising samples for any photography required for POS, liaising with the relevant traders, DC or collection from store.
• Assist with any store mock-ups required.
• Support with invoices including raising purchase orders

What you'll need...

• Whilst no marketing experience is needed, a general interest in retail, marketing and social media is desirable
• Great communication skills with the ability to work as part of a team and also work cross functionally
• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment and work on multiple projects at any one time.
• Creative flair is a must
• Excellent people skills
• Competent in using all Microsoft Office packages

What we can offer...

• Competitive salary
• Potential to earn bonus
• Free on-site car park
• Onsite coffee lounge
• Discount Card – 10% discount on most purchases in store including PEP&CO
• Family Friendly Benefits
• Loyal Service Awards
• My Staff Shop – exclusive discount portal
• Apprenticeships & Career Development
• Life Assurance Cover
• Health & Wellbeing – employee assistance programme to support you
• Holiday Allowance – increasing by one day per year (up to 33 days), and ability to purchase additional holiday
• Pension

About us...

You have come to the right place if you want to be part of our success story and have a bright future.

It all started in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990 with our first store. We now have over 900 stores and around 18,500 talented colleagues in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, offering each and every one of our seven million wonderful customers every day amazing value.

We offer thousands of quality products in-store with over 1,000 well-known brands. The majority are just £1, but as a multi price retailer, customers can enjoy competitively priced products from fresh, frozen and ambient food to health and beauty, gardening, clothing, and so much more.

Retail Week nominated us as Value Discounter of the Year in 2019, reflecting our team’s relentless focus on offering customers simplicity and amazing value.

In 2011 Dealz was born. The first stores opened in Blanchardstown and Portlaoise in Ireland. We continue to trade and have expanded rapidly in Ireland, Spain and Poland. Customers enjoy our winning formula of great value top brands and our extensive range, including many local products. We are incredibly proud to have been recognised as one of the Top 100 companies to work for in Ireland in 2022.

Our incredibly popular fashion brand PEP&CO is available in over 500 stores. It offers great value fashion for the whole family. It was nominated in the 2019 Retail Week Awards as Private Label of The Year.

The 2020 acquisition of Fultons, the north of England frozen food retailer, is another key part of our transformation programme, bringing our customers broader ranges and more choice. In 2022, we purchased the online discount retail business, Poundshop.com. The acquisition is another step in the transformation of Poundland and will provide the infrastructure to power a national roll-out of our ecommerce operation.

We have recently opened seven brand new stores, including our large format stores and revamped 55 stores. We are also expanding our fresh range to another 30 stores over the coming months. Our continued success is driven by offering our customers high-quality products at ultra-low prices each and every day.

If this sounds like you and you can make a real difference, apply today!