Marketing Operations Planner

Lyon's A Bit Creative; Hull and East Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A marketing operations firm in Hull is seeking a proactive Marketing Operations Planner for a fixed-term contract. You will manage planning, coordination, and budget tracking across teams, ensuring marketing strategies are executed effectively. The ideal candidate has experience in project management, advanced Excel skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders. This hybrid role allows for flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive salary plus bonus

32 days holiday

Pension contribution up to 8%

Community volunteering days

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in planning multiple complex activities is essential.
• Confident presentation skills are necessary.
• Understanding of marketing workflow and planning tools.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate the annual marketing plan.
• Manage budget allocation and report on tracking.
• Compile presentations for leadership updates.

Skills

Planning and coordination

Advanced Excel

Verbal and written communication

Project management experience

Education

Graduate educated to degree level

Tools

PowerPoint

Job description

About The Role

Are you highly organised, detail-focused, and ready to make a real impact? We are looking for a proactive Marketing Operations Planner to help continue to deliver our marketing strategy, co-ordinating activity across teams, managing schedules, and keeping everything running smoothly.

Working with a company-wide remit you’ll be at the heart of planning and tracking campaigns, ensuring we stay on time, on budget, and on message. If you enjoy working with different teams, love a good spreadsheet, and have a passion for process and performance, this could be the perfect next step in your marketing career.

This is a hybrid working role 2/3 days between the home and our Head Office based in Hull.

Please be aware this is a fixed term contract for 12 months.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning and co-ordination of annual marketing plan to meet strategic and commercial objectives
• Quarterly reviews of the plan with marketing leadership team and reconciliation with finance
• Manage plan and campaign governance through plan review process, includes actions plans and follow up with campaign owners
• Track progress against plan, escalating any risk to delivery and mitigating accordingly
• Co-ordinate budget allocation process in alignment with financial planning cycle
• Conduct monthly tracking and reporting of budget spend, co-ordinating with finance
• Schedule all marketing activity to ensure correct volume and frequency of customer communication
• Track resource allocation to ensure plan is deliverable with human and financial resource
• Compile presentations as required into Exec team to update on progress of marketing activity

Rewards and Benefits

• A competitive starting salary plus bonus
• 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays which rises with service, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days each calendar year
• 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
• An excellent pension (up to 8% Arco contribution) and x4 Life Assurance scheme
• A huge range of discounts to help with cost of living via Perkbox plus Employee Discount on Arco products
• Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Health Cash Plan where we'll reimburse up to 100% of everyday healthcare costs
• Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
• Long-term service awards were proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

About You

The ideal Marketing Operations Planner will:

• Experience of planning and co-ordination of multiple complex activities over a wide stakeholder group is essential
• Graduate educated to degree level, not essential but may be an advantage
• Have previous experience in Project management. Formal PM qualification may be an advantage
• Working knowledge of latest marketing workflow, planning tools and techniques
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to influence at all levels
• Confident verbal and written presentation skills
• Good commercial acumen, working understanding of return on investment and performance reporting
• Experience of managing operations across a marketing function desirable but not essential

About Us

With a 140-year legacy, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We\'re the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge.

We are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable, with investment into our growing business to help achieve this. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balance the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because Its on us. To deliver. Together.

Diversity and Inclusion at Arco means understanding everyone's views and giving colleagues a sense of belonging. We respect and value individuals for their unique skills, experiences and ideas; to ensure we can be at our best. By creating a supportive and inclusive environment we will be an organisation able to drive our strategic goals, attracting and developing great people to be a more profitable and sustainable business for generations to come.

Be Safe, Be Yourself, Be Your Best.

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