Marketing Manager (Category & Promotions)

As the Category Marketing Manager for Travis Perkins you will develop, own and evaluate the Travis Perkins & Benchmarx product marketing plan, including promotions and product category initiatives, across all channels.

Working within the Marketing & Digital function you will be responsible for creating and managing  the implementation of the promotional and category marketing plan, ensuring performance measurement and making recommendations for improving ROI; across all channels.

The role is hybrid working whereby you work from home and at our head office based in Duston, Northamptonshire.

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensure effective management of all stakeholders in the promotional process

• Maintain and protect brand identity, across all online and offline channels, ensuring activity is on-brand and in-line with the strategy

• Appraise, control and manage resources (budget, people & agencies) to ensure optimal performance and value for money

• Ensure all promotions are delivered on time and to budget

• Ensure operational and sales colleagues are up-to-speed with relevant category marketing activities, gaining their support where necessary, in order to maximise the opportunity.

• Ensure engagement with other marketing colleagues and suppliers to deliver promotions across all activities and channels

• Brief creative teams, internal and external to deliver promotions across all channels

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in a similar role, retail marketing would be advantageous

• Project Management experience

• Budget management

• Agency negotiation

• Senior stakeholder management

• Understand analysis and ROI

• Multiple marketing channels both on and offline

• Tenacious and energetic; the ability to keep persevering and overcome obstacles

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some of the best training & development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us, it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

• Competitive annual salary

• Save-as-you-earn scheme

• Buy-as-you-earn scheme

• Contributory pension scheme

• Colleague discounts across a variety of Group businesses including with special discounts across our Trade Merchanting businesses, 20% off at Toolstation.

• Support on various areas such a health and wellbeing

• MyPerks discounts across shop retailers and restaurants

About Travis Perkins

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!

You be you, it makes us, us!