Marketing Assistant

Danish Crown A/S; Warwick; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A global food company is seeking a Graduate Marketing Assistant based in Warwick. This role involves supporting brand marketing initiatives and working closely with sales teams to implement projects aimed at growing the Hormel Branded portfolio. Ideal candidates are recent graduates with strong analytical skills and a passion for food, who can thrive in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Matched company pension scheme

Discounted meat through staff shop

Well-being programmes with health care options

Free Employee Assistance Programme

Free parking

Free tea and coffee

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Recent graduate with relevant degree.
• Some relevant work experience preferred.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in brand marketing efforts including planning and advertising.
• Work with agencies to implement the brand plan.
• Support marketing team and sales team with projects.

Skills

Analytical capability

Communication skills

Project management

Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Education

Business, Marketing or equivalent degree

Job description

We are a food company owned by Danish farmers, supplying high-quality food to customers and consumers all over the world. From butchers to business developers, we are more than 26,000 colleagues.

Benefits

• An amazing 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays – that’s 36 days holiday a year
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and share parental leave
• Enhanced company sick pay
• Matched company pension scheme
• Heavily discounted meat for all staff through the staff shop.
• Well-being programmes, with free optional health care cash plans to cover your everyday healthcare costs and which offer a wide range of digital and virtual wellbeing tools to support both your health and the people you care about.
• Free Employee Assistance Programme for all colleagues and their families
• Free parking
• Free tea and coffee on all sites
• Development opportunities for those that would like to progress in a global business

Area of responsibility

We are recruiting for a graduate Marketing Assistant position within the branded team based in the Warwick office. We seek a dynamic and driven individual with strong commercial acumen to support the growth of the Hormel Branded portfolio within the UK and EMEA region.

This is an ideal opportunity to provide you with a solid foundation with an FMCG business to build upon as you progress your career into marketing, category or sales management.

Responsibilities

• Involvement in all aspects of the brand marketing, including brand planning, social media, creative advertising, media, packaging design, PR, product innovation.
• Briefing and working with agencies to deliver the brand plan.
• Support marketing team and the sales team to deliver projects.
• Implement marketing initiatives with retail customers in store and on-line, working with the sales teams.
• Prepare marketing presentations for the sales teams.
• Log and manage marketing and trade investments and run promotional post-evaluation and optimisation to drive ROI.
• Run sales reports and provide the required inputs for monthly business planning.
• Analyse data using internal sales reports and external data for management decisions.
• Ensure day-to-day issues are dealt with effectively and efficiently with a customer centric approach.
• Involvement in forecasting and supply chain to support the Sales and Business Development functions.
• Attend team meetings with the US office, provide updates/input to other stakeholders, such as the US global brand teams.

Job Requirements

Skills/ experience required:

• Recent graduate with a Business, Marketing or equivalent degree.
• Some relevant work experience, possibly while completing study.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical capability and numerate who can analyse the data, pull out the insights and translate them into action.
• Solid multi-tasking, project management, and prioritization skills.
• Demonstrate positive energy to effectively represent brand internally/externally.
• Ambitious team player with the ability to work autonomously.
• Excellent Microsoft skills—Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Passion for food.

We require an individual with a strong work ethic and desire to succeed within an energetic and exciting environment.

The successful candidate must, by the start of their employment, have permission to work in the UK.