Marketing Investment Operations Junior Manager

Samsung Electronics America; Chertsey; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading electronics company in the UK is seeking a professional to oversee the marketing investment process, ensuring operational excellence and financial risk management. The role involves managing team budgets, optimizing project ROI, and collaborating closely with various stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in marketing and finance, exceptional Excel skills, and the ability to work independently. This position offers a hybrid working environment with competitive benefits.

Benefits

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home

Bonus scheme

Pension contribution

Three volunteering days each year

Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays

Discounts on Samsung products

Access to a discount shopping portal

Qualifications

• Experience in marketing or sales.
• Background in finance management and budget control.
• Strong understanding of process operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage investment process and mitigate risks.
• Optimize project ROI through collaboration.
• Control individual team budgets and track expenditure.

Skills

Attention to detail

Ability to work independently

Excellent partner management

Team working skills

Tools

MS Office

Excel

PowerPoint

SAP or similar ERP system

Job description

Position Summary

The EO Marketing department acts as a centre of excellence, and is tasked with supporting all European local subsidiaries through a wide range of pan-European marketing investments. These include shared services, innovation projects, investment pilots, insights and analytics, and pan-European governance. The EO Marketing Planning Team sits within the EO Marketing organisation, and its purpose is to provide a range of support functions to the EO teams, across E-Store, Digital Marketing, Retail, Brand, PR, and Consumer Market Intelligence. This includes the management of the European marketing investment portfolio, carrying out investment analysis & reporting, facilitating project ROI & KPI reviews, setting departmental budgets, and supporting with the end-to-end investment & finance process.

Role and Responsibilities

• The purpose of the role is to ensure best-in-class operational excellence across the investment process and financial risk management. The main objective is to provide a smooth operation of the investment process, and to mitigate any financial/commercial risks.

Investment Process Management

• End-to-end management of the marketing investment process. Working closely with the European marketing teams to support the delivery of their projects, including continued communication throughout the process, liaising with different stakeholders across the business, including project owners, procurement, finance & legal teams.

• Ownership of investment process improvements. Includes setting the supporting documentation requirements, reviewing backup for each investment, and working with other supporting teams (Legal, Procurement) to optimise the process. This also includes providing training to the department on process, financial compliance, documentation requirements, and KPI requirements.

• Project return on investment Optimisation. Assisting the Marketing Commercial Finance Manager in facilitating and contributing to the process of optimising investments. This includes and is not limited to: ensuring that critical metrics are set following the SMART principle, reviewing whether KPIs fit the current framework, ensuring that the business case fits the EO marketing strategy framework, facilitating post project reviews to review final project outcomes.

• Management of the Marketing Investment Dashboard. Bi-weekly generation of report. This includes downloading and cleansing data from Finance (NERP), Procurement (BQMS), and Legal (SELMS) systems, showing the detailed status of each investment within the process. Includes data analysis for flagging any bottlenecks and risks.

• Vendor roster management. Handling the marketing vendor pool across each category - Brand, PR, Events, Digital Operations & Analytics and Consumer Market Intelligence.

Financial Management

• Budget Control: Management of individual team budgets, including tracking of remaining funds, spend to-date, and forecasted expenditure. This also includes budget expenditure risk mitigation, ensuring that variance between forecasted and actual marketing costs is minimised.

• Open accrual management: Working closely with vendors, Project Owners and Accounts Payable to ensure that aged accruals (POs) are closed off from previous years.

• Ad-hoc projects. Examples: Savings analysis through choosing optimal FX rate, supporting the team on inter-company transfers (NTS), etc.

What we need for this role

To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:

Preferred Background:

• Marketing/Sales
• Process operations
• Finance Management/Budget Control

Soft skills:

• Attention to detail
• Able to take on full ownership of a business process
• Positive and pro-active attitude
• Ability to work and solve problems independently
• Excellent partner management skills
• Team working skills. Able to work with various partners

Essential hard skills:

• Good working knowledge of MS Office
• Advanced Excel skills (Pivot Tables, V-Lookup, updating datasets, formula writing)
• Proficient in Power Point and Word
• Proficient with SAP or similar ERP system

Skills and Qualifications

What does success look like?

• All investments have a clear underlying objective and have clearly set ROI/KPI targets. How will this be measured: At payment stage, ROI/KPI results will be collated in separate file by line manager.

• Investments commence in a timely manner, without delays to the originally set date.

• Marketing budget is fully spent by 31st Dec of each calendar year. Hence, no budget is lost/not utilised.

• All EO MKTG employees are protected in case of an internal process audit.

Benefits

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week

• Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance

• Pension contribution

• Three volunteering days each year

• Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday

• Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products

• Access to a discount shopping portal

Equal opportunities note: We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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