Experiential Retail Lead: End-to-End Activations & Budgets

Brand Partnership Group; Kingston upon Thames; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Car

10% Bonus

Pre paid card for expenses

Development opportunities

Job summary

Blue Square, in partnership with Samsung UK, seeks a Retail Experiential Manager to plan and deliver standout in-store activations, pop-ups and flagship launches across the UK. You will drive activations from brief to delivery, manage budgets up to £1M, and lead a network of agencies and suppliers while developing junior team capability.

Based at Samsung Chertsey HQ transitioning to regular site visits, you will combine strategic thinking, creativity and commercial judgement to create

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering experiential, events, marketing or similarly complex projects end to end.
• Strong project-management skills, with the ability to prioritise and deliver multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
• Commercially astute, with experience managing budgets, forecasts, suppliers and external partners.
• Strategic and solutions-focused, able to turn business objectives into effective customer experiences.
• A confident communicator and relationship builder, credible with senior UK and HQ stakeholders.
• Proactive, adaptable and accountable, with experience coaching junior colleagues and a passion for retail experiential.

Responsibilities

• Lead experiential projects from initial brief and planning through to delivery, evaluation and close-out.
• Manage activations of varying scale, including pop-ups, events, bespoke builds, branded vehicles and longer-term programmes.
• Own project plans, timelines, resources, logistics and budgets ranging from £10K to £1M.
• Translate retail, brand and product priorities into creative activation plans and investment recommendations.
• Build strong stakeholder, agency and supplier relationships, proactively managing risks, costs and expectations.
• Measure KPIs, ROI and lessons learned while coaching the Junior Retail Experiential Project Manager.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Communication

Retail experiential

Tools

MS Office

Project management tools

Job description

Blue Square, in partnership with Samsung UK, seeks a Retail Experiential Manager to plan and deliver standout in-store activations, pop-ups and flagship launches across the UK. You will drive activations from brief to delivery, manage budgets up to £1M, and lead a network of agencies and suppliers while developing junior team capability.

Based at Samsung Chertsey HQ transitioning to regular site visits, you will combine strategic thinking, creativity and commercial judgement to create