Promotions Assistant

Driver Hire Borders; Little Irchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the wholesale sector seeks a Promotions Assistant to join their Trading Support team. This role involves facilitating promotional activities, managing data inputs, and ensuring timely execution of promotions to meet sales targets. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and organizational skills, along with proficiency in Office 365, particularly Excel. Join a company that offers fantastic benefits and the opportunity for career growth.

Qualifications

• Good communication skills and ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Accurate data input and strong admin skills.
• Retail/wholesale experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating promotional activities and ensuring timely promotion data inputs.
• Running data validation reports and liaising with departments to resolve issues.
• Managing and developing promotion processes for reporting simplifications.

Skills

Communication skills

Data management

Organizational skills

Verbal and numerical reasoning

Teamworking

Tenacity

Tools

Office 365

Excel

Job description

What's in it for you

At Booker, along with being a great place to work and giving you an opportunity to get on in your career, we also offer the following fantastic package of benefits:

• A Booker colleague card with 10% off purchases at Booker and double discount events up to three times a year.
• After 3 months service, a Tesco colleague discount card with 10% increasing to 15% off most purchases at Tesco for a 4 day period after every four-weekly pay day, ie. thirteen times a year. In addition to 10% off at Tesco Cafe and 20% off all F&F purchases.
• 10% off pay monthly & SIM only deals with Tesco Mobile for yourself, along with further great deals through-out the year.
• Up to 30% off car, pet and home insurance at Tesco bank. Terms and conditions apply.
• Free eye test when you spend £50 or more. You can also save 30% when you spend £50 or more on glasses, prescription sunglasses and contact lenses.
• 50% off health checks at Tesco Pharmacy.
• Exclusive access to discounted RAC breakdown cover rates
• An exclusive deals and discounts website saving you money on everyday purchases including a cycle to work scheme.
• After 3 months service, you can join our annual Save As You Earn share scheme which allows you to buy Tesco shares in the future at a discount.
• Retirement savings plan (pension) - save up to 5% and Booker will match your contribution.
• Life Assurance - You are covered for death in service life cover of up to three times annual pay
• Health and Wellbeing support and resources including our 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme and Virtual GP for you and your family.
• A great holiday package

About the role

We have an exciting new vacancy available within our Trading Support team for a Promotions Assistant.

In this role you will facilitate and administer promotional activity to ensure that the objectives set out in our Trading Briefs are met to deliver the wholesale offer, drive sales and margin.

In addition you will deliver promotional activities and data inputs by ensuring that all promotional planning and preparation is completed accurately and on time in accordance with the documented processes, systems and calendars.

You will be responsible for

• Ensuring that the promotion master sheets are fully prepared and complete before being extracted.
• Completingany data preparation for the Promotions Co-Ordinator as inputs to the promotions meetings.
• Providingany support to ensure that promotion meeting actions are chased up and closed out.
• Running promotion data validation reports to ensure recipients fix any set-up issues and gaps (e.g. pre-checks).
• Liaisingwith other departments at all levels to get the job done correctly and accurately on time.
• Managingall amends for the wholesale promotions and ensure that the promotion data is maintained accurately.
• SAP keying and data validations for some promotions (e.g. Booker National Deals and adhocs)
• Running extracts for Supply Chain/Marketing/Ops/SAP Keying.
• Liaisingwith other functions to ensure data issues are dealt with and to prevent any future re-occurrences.
• Maintaining and develop new promotion processes and systems to deliver on-going ways of working and reporting improvements/simplification.
• Running weekly price comparison checks.
• Dealing with ad hoc queries that come into the department (e.g. CategoryManagers, Trading Admin, Supply Chain etc).
• Running status checks to ensure all SKU's are live before retailer buy-in starts.
• Providing support for the team in managing other activity outside of promotions

You will need

• Good communication skills.
• Verbal and numerical reasoning.
• Accurate data input and strong admin skills.
• Organised and able to manage own workload.
• Cross functional team working.
• Tenacious with follow through to completion.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Data management and administration.
• Retail/wholesale experience.
• Office 365 and especially Excel (min intermediate level).