Lidl Jobs – Marketing Campaigns Executive

Summary

£25,850- £33,000* per annum- This isn’t making a change today. This is making an impact tomorrow.

At Lidl, we’re Big on creative, Big on making stuff that puts smiles on faces and products in trolleys and we’re looking for an enthusiastic, pro-active Marketing Campaigns Executive to join a busy and ambitious team that develops and delivers brand, seasonal and trade driving campaigns.

The Marketing Campaigns Executive role would suit someone who has worked in-house or agency, and has a good understanding of campaign management. The right candidate will support in the development and execution of customer centric through-the-line campaigns on time and within budget, working with Lidl’s distinctive tone of voice and personality guidelines.

We have moved to a fully flexible model of mobile working for appropriate Head Office and Regional roles, empowering our teams to choose how and where they work best. We feel it is important that, where possible, we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible and trust our teams to determine the right environments that work most effectively for them.

As part of your application, you will be asked to complete two online exercises taking approximately 10 minutes, designed to provide us with a more in-depth understanding of you and your potential as a member of our team. If everything goes well, someone from the recruitment team will get in touch to chat about your application over the phone and following this you may be invited to face to face interview. To find out more and watch videos of our tests, visit: https://assessment.aon.com/en-us/online-assessment/practice-assessments.

What you’ll do

• Responsible for managing campaign timings, making sure deliverables documents are up to date and creative has been signed off by relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Supporting our price campaigns with high levels of attention to detail engaging with relevant internal teams and agencies to ensure campaigns are executed effectively and on time.
• Collaborating with internal teams including Buying and Legal to ensure we have accurate product information and relevant samples for campaigns as well as substation for any product or price claims made.
• Working with creative agencies to ensure accurate and timely submission of all necessary documents for campaign approvals
• Supporting with the management of critical paths (timing plans) from ideation to implementation stage, with key dates updated in diaries and project management systems (Asana).
• Leading on certain Tier 3 campaigns (where applicable), and supporting on Tier 1 and 2 campaigns as required
• Keeping the ‘campaign book’ up to date with approved campaign work and campaign results
• Ensuring accurate and timely product data entry and substantiation for Clearcast and RACC (including legal and buyer claim substantiation and nutritional information).
• Responsible for certain financial management including raising POs, setting up suppliers and supporting line manager/ campaign lead in the monitoring and recording of spend

What you’ll need

• Experience in supporting in the development of through-the-line brand and trade advertisement campaigns
• Experience in retail or FMCG or other fast-moving industries is highly desirable
• Previous experience collaborating with or working within creative or marketing agencies
• Passion for creativity and ability to provide opinions on strategic and creative thinking
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills and ability to be assertive when partnering with stakeholders
• Proactive attitude with problem solving skills
• Highly focused and accurate with an uncompromising eye for detail
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Comprehensive Excel skills and experience of working with other Microsoft Office programmes
• An enthusiastic team player who is keen to make a difference and able to work co-operatively as well as independently where required.
• Experience of working with project management tools including Asana is desirable

What you’ll receive

This isn’t getting by. This is getting what you deserve. Working at Lidl is rewarding, in every sense, because we give you the extensive training to succeed in your role and plenty of opportunities to progress your career here. We’re proud to offer a competitive salary from £25,850- £33,000 (depending on experience), with 30 days’ holiday per year (pro rata). Save for your future with our pension scheme, or save today with a 10% in store discount, plus extra discounts on days out, cinema tickets and much more.

• includes 10% non-contractual London Weighting allowance

Please note your employment is conditional upon the Company’s receipt of satisfactory references and if requested by the Company, a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date. This is to ensure our teams can manage application levels while maintaining a positive candidate experience. Once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.