Marketing Manager – Merchants
Location: Pampisford
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Huws Gray Group is looking for an experienced and proactive Marketing Manager to lead marketing activity for its merchant division.
Reporting to Group Head of Marketing, this hands-on role will take ownership of marketing strategy and delivery, across multiple channels and the full marketing mix. This role leads of team of 5 including marketing execs and Graphic designer. Working closely with internal stakeholders, agencies, and suppliers, you will drive awareness, engagement, and growth.
Key Responsibilities
Marketing Strategy and Execution:
- Develop and implement marketing plans to support the commercial trading strategy.
- Create compelling content and collateral to promote the business and products across various channels, including digital, print, and PR ensuring consistency with brand guidelines
- Coordinate with external agencies to produce high-quality marketing materials
- Implement monthly and seasonal campaigns, with a focus on measuring campaign performance and ROI.
- Feed into social content planning calendar and liaise with social media agency.
Additional Duties:
- Stay current with marketing best practices and industry trends, particularly within the construction and related sectors.
- This list is not exhaustive, and from time to time, you may be required to undertake additional duties.
Person Specification:
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Ability to handle and deliver multiple projects to deadlines in fast-paced environments
- Agency management – creative, social, media planning
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Proactive, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and organised
- Strong communication skills and experience in managing senior stakeholders
- Excellent understanding of current marketing practices
- Team player, comfortable with supporting and accepting support from colleagues
- Ability to work independently
- An eye for detail and accuracy, good spelling and grammar
- Professional, polite, friendly and helpful manner
Desirable Skills and Experience:
- Degree in Marketing or relevant prior experience in a similar industry or woth the retail sector
- Familiarity with UK construction industry, it’s key players, current challenges and relevant legislative drivers
- Experience working within a manufacturing, engineering, construction, or similar industry
- Technical product knowledge and understanding of their applications and uses
- Proficiency with data management and analytics
- Experience with people management
What you'll receive in return:
- A strong annual leave allowance, alongside your bank holidays
- Company bonus scheme, based on performance
- Contributory pension and life assurance
- Discounts on high street retailers, supermarkets, restaurants, gyms and cinemas
- Colleague discount across our group brands
- Attraction and travel discounts
- Training and development programmes to support your growth
We offer on-the-job training and opportunities to work towards recognised qualifications, including apprenticeships.
This role will be based at the head office in Pampisford, within a multichannel team, and will involve (fully expensed) travel to branches and other business locations.
A full driver’s license is required.
