Marketing Planning Assistant - Maternity Cover

Bunzl Greenham, one of the UK’s leading Safety & Workplace supplier is looking for a Marketing Planning Assistant to join their growing team based in Isleworth. This is a fixed term contract position to cover maternity leave.

We have developed into one of the UK’s largest industrial suppliers through supporting business at every step of the supply chain. Being part of Bunzl plc, a global £6.1 billion FTSE 100 company, we specialise in the supply of Personal Protection Equipment, Cleaning & Hygiene Suppliers and Contractor’s Site Equipment.

As our Marketing Planning Assistant you will be responsible for managing the tracking and scheduling of all bespoke customer catalogues and all design requests submitted to Marketing Services from all areas of the business. You will also produce timing plans for each activity and ensuring all key stakeholders are briefed on the deadlines.

Key Responsibilities as our Marketing Planning Assistant include:

- Responsible for creation and ongoing management of all catalogue and ad-hoc design and publication timing plans, ensuring that these are in line with the overall marketing calendar, that all deadlines are achieved and all teams are briefed on timings.

- Responsible for the creation and management of each bespoke catalogue pagination, ensuring pagination is in line with agreed print parameters.

- Responsible for briefing the internal studio team on all bespoke catalogue and adhoc design requests and agreeing production timings as appropriate.

- Responsible for the sourcing of quotations from preferred print suppliers for each piece of activity, providing the necessary information to facilitate a print/production quotation being supplied.

- Managing, via relevant tracking documentation, concept and artwork generation by the studio to pre-agreed SLA’s. Responsible for the collation of all corrections/amends via electronic pdf proofing from the business and trafficking these to the studio.

- Day to day responsibility for database product updates – additions, deletions, change of product specs, setting up special offer codes to ensure the website is up to date at all times.

Our ideal Marketing Planning Assistant will:

- Understand print production

- Ideally have worked within an in-house studio environment within a retail HO or brand

- Be highly organised, tenacious and have a great attention to detail

- Not be phased with having to manage our internal customers and telling them ‘no’ and/or agreeing to compromise

- Be Flexible – you never know what you will be asked to get involved in or do on a day-to-day basis – one day, it could be lots of excel spreadsheet data work, the next day, it could be organising samples for a photoshoot

- Have ability to create print briefs, obtain quotes and place print with a range of preferred print suppliers, ensuring required deadlines are met

In return for your passion, drive and commitment as our Marketing Planning Assistant you will receive a salary of up to £23,000 pro-rata plus excellent benefits including 20 days holiday – pro rata, Bunzl plc Group Benefits , Free on-site parking, close to transport links, staff canteen on site

If you feel you have the skills and experience to join our team as a Marketing Planning Assistant please click ‘Apply’ now.