• Junior Channel Marketing Manager - Consumer Electronics


• Up to £43,000 per annum


• Initial temporary contract until 30th June 2024 but subject to performance and budget will be extended to a maximum of 18 months


• The role is hybrid - working every Tuesday in Reading and once a month in Paddington London and the rest will be working remotely

This is a brilliant opportunity to work for a global Consumer Electronics company who are one of the most recognised brands in the world.

We are looking for a Junior Channel Marketing Manager to join this friendly professional Marketing Team and support their Retail Partners in Nordics as well as their UK Distribution Partners

As a member of this team you'll be part of growing a multi-billion-dollar business, charting new areas of innovation and impacting billions of lives around the world.
You also will be a part of a culture centred on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.
If that appeals to you, it's an exciting time to apply to this role.
The Junior Channel Marketing Manager will have responsibility for supporting retail Channel Marketing strategies for the Nordics region.
They will drive the strategy, investment priorities, goals by line of business through engagement with the EMEA and Sub regional Channel and Partner Marketing teams and Category management.
The role is accountable for driving Channel Marketing plans and leveraging regional execution structures as appropriate.

Key Accountabilities:

• Work with subsidiaries to help create medium and long-term execution plans in line with seasonal planning to maintain retail channel momentum through the product life cycle and follow the key retail selling seasons


• Drive subsidiary execution & seamless integration between Category, Sales & Retail Services


• Use results of analysis to learn from execution success and failures and share this with subsidiaries


• Maximize ROI on future activities by measuring and optimizing marketing campaigns, promotions performance and sell-thru.


• Collaborate with World Wide and EMEA Channel and Local teams to develop marketing plans, inclusive of Digital, addressing upcoming selling seasons and industry trends.


• As necessary, translate category management plans for subsidiaries, and coordinating marketing efforts at the local level between sales, category management, and internal support teams (visual merchandising, field labor & training, and Digital) to drive successful execution of retail programs, training, promotions, and events.


• Use results of analysis to learn from execution success and failures and share this with subsidiaries

As well as the above there will be the administration side to the role; raising POs and raising Proof of Execution (PoE) and spending a large amount of time in various spreadsheets monitoring and managing the budgets for retail partners and various campaigns.

Skills and experience required:

• Ideally a Marketing/Business degree - MBA preferred


• 4+ years relevant experience within Consumer/Retail/Channel Marketing


• The ideal candidate will come from a Consumer Electronics background - if you don't then very strong Retail Marketing is essential


• Proven success at marketing and execution planning - ideally within consumer technology products


• Comfortable working within complex Excel spreadsheets


• Experience of raising POs and PoEs