Marketing Executive in Milton Keynes

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We are committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Do you have a proven track record of building relationships and driving change? Are you looking for career progression through managing campaigns and promotional activities? Do you want to be part of a progressive Marketing team, helping to transform the business in a competitive growth market? Then this will be the perfect position for you.

We are looking for a driven and creative marketing executive with experience of venue partnerships to join our team here at MERKUR Head Office. We want our slots venues to be busy and bustling 24/7 and that’s where you come in! You will take the lead on venue support for your area, ensuring that you help to drive venue performance metrics via National, Local and bespoke initiatives. Working closely with in-house and external creative agencies to ensure materials creation and delivery find the optimum balance between maximum venue support and scalable solutions across the estate.

This role will involve weekly travel to venues in our southern regions and occasional overnight stays away.

About you:

• Are you a passionate marketing executive ready to take the next step, able to build trust with stakeholders and challenge ideas, someone who is driven to succeed?
• Have the ability, and be willing to, travel to venues and team meetings across the regions.
• Have a ‘solutions based’ mentality, with the big picture and scale always in mind.
• Fantastic interpersonal skills.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Excellent communication skills, confident in talking to people at all levels of our organisation.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Good basics with IT skills – MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Enthusiastic, with a positive attitude.
• Team player but able to work on own initiative.
• Have strong English language and grammar skills.
• Have a great imagination, drive and an eye for detail.
• Be keen to learn and develop skills and have a willingness to embrace change.
• Have the ability to create and manage multiple projects at the same time.
• Be confident handling confidential or sensitive information.

What’s in it for you?

• 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Bonus opportunities
• Work mobile and laptop.
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Health care plan and Life Assurance
• Discounts with high street retailers and restaurants through our benefits portal
• Employee assistance programme

Your Role will include:

• Regularly attend on site meeting at venues and area meetings ready to advise best practice solutions driven by Marketing knowledge and expertise on a consistent basis.
• Create multi-channel content that meets the company objectives, is compliant and work with Marketing colleagues to ensure online, digital, social and local / physical materials are delivered on time and on budget.
• Ensure that all communications plans and campaign support plans are in place across all consent led channels (e.g. email, SMS).
• Ensure all creative briefs follow the company standards to ensure compliance and maximum detail, to minimise rework and maximise brand impact.
• Work with our agencies to source external advertising opportunities and place adverts as required in consultation with key stakeholders (Marketing, Compliance & Ops) – ensuring scalable and shared solutions where possible.
• Evaluate marketing support actions undertaken via clear planning, review and work with the Campaigns and Promotions Lead to understand PCA (post campaign analysis) – this will ensure that we learn, evolve and improve our plans and actions to best drive company performance.
• Manage your portion of the marketing budgets to ensure the best return versus plan, both promotional budget and materials/media.
• Regularly monitor and report on competitor activity through research and operational area feedback.
• Maintain and update customer databases efficiently and work with venues to maximise data capture and sign up.
• Take responsibility for ad-hoc projects on a regular basis to enhance your knowledge / development and help drive the department deliverables forwards.
• Provide ‘ad-hoc’ support across our estate, via calls, emails (Marketing Inbox and Direct), Zoom or F2F meetings.
• Build effective relationships with key stakeholders, both internally and externally.
• Working within our appropriate compliance framework to demonstrate the key behaviours of a professional, supportive, and engaging marketing function.
• To promote awareness of Responsible Gambling strategies and procedures.

So, if you are someone with the ability to see the bigger picture and how we can continue to drive revenue through exciting events and marketing campaigns, then we want to hear from you! Apply today and our recruitment team will be in touch!