Marketing Trainee - Max Factor

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MARKETING ASSISTANT

12 MONTH FTC

Our purpose is to celebrate and liberate the diversity of beauty. We challenge convention through invention, expanding our horizons to enrich your reality with possibility. We build brands to inspire and enable our consumers to experience the confidence and joy of expressing their beauty, their way.

The Marketing Assistant will join the Consumer Beauty Division for Coty to work with on the Global cosmetics brand - Max Factor . The Marketing Assistant will support the Max Factor Brand Equity Team (1x Senior Brand Manager and 1x Senior Director) across the entire brand portfolio on a 12-month fixed term basis.

You will be assisting the Senior Brand Manager in the development and execution of brand plans that deliver profitable business growth through insight-led strategy.

Key Responsibilities

General

• Support the Brand team in all day-to-day brand responsibilities..
• Manage mailing and couriers, coordinating all brand team mail and couriers to agencies, retailers and ad hoc.
• Other ad hoc requests to support brand teams as required including: competitor deep dives, campaign ideas, other research & analysis projects.
  

Point of Sale

• Develop Point of Sale materials for in-store for certain projects.
  

Budget Management

• Support with the brand marketing budget, raising POs, helping to resolve supplier invoice queries and ensuring all budget trackers are maintained correctly.
  

Presentations

• Support the brand team in preparation for big presentations by ordering sample products, room decoration and creating any other necessary marketing materials (e.g. booklets, posters etc.)
• Present Max Factor brand inductions to new starters in the business.
  

Asset Development

• Assist in day-to-day project management needs for key campaign assets (print, TV, PR, digital).
• Assist is the development and creation of “ad hoc” creative assets to be used across the brand’s multiple digital touch points (online, e-com, social media).
  

Asset Management

• Manage brand assets and folders downloading key documents, campaign toolkits, pack shots and saving to campaign folders in the drive. Be the team expert on DAM database.
  

Competitor Watching

• Track competitor activity and industry trends, sharing key learnings with internal teams.
• Present analysis at monthly brand review, including tracking category, brand and sub- segment performance and defining the underlying performance root causes.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

• Currently studying for a 3rd level qualification
• Previous relevant experience.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Demonstrate a pro-active attitude and flexible approach.
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills and the ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships and be a good team player.
• High level of numeracy, marketing sense, PC skills, maturity and communication skills.
• Experience in Indesign/Adobe Suite is a plus.
• Able to demonstrate a creative flair!
• Able to demonstrate a passion for brands

COMPETENCIES

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Proven ability to develop creative solutions thinking analytically and conceptually. Solution provider and problem solver.
• Self-starter: Passionate, enthusiastic, thrives on challenges and keeps a healthy attitude under pressure, takes charge of self-development.
• Team Player: Ability to develop effective working relationships being able to collaborate and influence others demonstrating integrity and respect.
• Constructive networker: Collaborates easily with others and adapts to different working styles.
• Organised in action: Able to organize own work, multi tasker.
• Excellence in execution: Reliable, gets things done on time & takes responsibility for final executions