Commercial Marketing Manager

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Come and join us as a creative and results driven Marketing Manager to help us revolutionise an industry that is ready to be changed, and be part of a hugely successful and friendly Marketing team.

The Role:

As a Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for our City Commercial brand. City Commercial is a developing specialist business unit within the core City Plumbing business, the Brand Marketing Manager will be responsible for developing and executing marketing plans to build and maintain a strong brand presence of the growing Commercial business.  

This is primarily a hybrid-based role with visits to our office.  You should be based in the UK and within commutable distance to you should be within commutable distance of either our office in Crick (Northamptonshire).

Key Responsibilities

• Brand marketing management of City Commercial SBU alongside the City Commercial leadership team and the Head of Marketing
• Oversee all aspects of brand management, including brand positioning, messaging, and creative development and implementation. Working closely across the wider marketing, digital and commercial teams, the Brand Marketing Manager will develop and implement branding plans to strengthen the identity of the City Commercial brand.
• Manage the identity of the proposition, and ensure strong and consistent executions across all channels, and integration into the trading cycles resulting in customer awareness of City Plumbing’s USPs, leading to a strengthening of perception of the master brand. 
• Work closely with our suppliers to create and deliver value-adding brand partnerships and product launch activity, strengthening the presence of City Plumbing across the specific field. 
• Oversee & manage the delivery and fulfilment of customer acquisition campaigns, proactively reporting on the successes, working with channel experts in (but not limited to) PR, digital, Email, Social, web content, exhibitions, events, branch & sales team media, and call plans.
• Develop, manage and launch key literature, including City Commercial brochure, and their associated marketing launch plans, in order to support the propositions and their targeted audience. 
• Manage and support key internal/external events and wider industry/relevant proposition external events, ensuring the propositions are communicated in the strongest way and land key messages.
• Closely monitor industry and competitor activity as well as survey & customer research initiatives and scope the needs for customer insight across the propositions, reporting back to the business to support decision making.
• Support the development and positioning of the City Commercial Own Brand objectives, including (but not limited to) trend analysis, CGI creation, internal and external launches.
• Support the Marketing team with absences and work proactively to support and develop colleagues within the wider Marketing team to drive best practice and establish best in class ways of working.

You:

You’ll live and breathe our customer-first ethos, with a creative and data-driven approach. You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider team and you’ll be committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do

Skills and competencies

• Industry experience is required
• Results driven
• Customer & business focus
• Strong analytical skills 
• Excellent creative and copywriting skills
• Well disciplined and organised with ability to project and cost manage
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Brand Marketing, Builders Merchants, Campaign Marketing, Comms Marketing, Construction, Copywriting, Customer Solutions, Digital Marketing, Email Marketing, Energy Efficiency, Generalist Marketing, Marcomms Marketing, Marketing Executive, Marketing Manager, Renewable Marketing, SaaS Marketing, Sustainable Heating.

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

#BelongWithUs

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.