Senior Marketing Executive - Planning (Maternity Cover) in Leeds

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More about your role: You’ll help streamline internal workflows, ensuring all communications meet quality standards and projects are delivered on time and in line with brand expectations. You’ll work closely with the Planning Manager and Studio Traffic team to prioritise and track resources for every request. You’ll coordinate department planning activities, support business partners in resource planning cycles, and make prioritisation recommendations. Your role will also involve coordinating workflows to ensure tasks are assigned appropriately and keeping stakeholders informed of progress. Please be advised this is a maternity cover FTC until 31st January 2027.

The Essential Criteria for this role is listed below:

• Ability to coordinate tasks within projects and campaigns to ensure deadlines are met and everyone stays on schedule.
• Experience in planning or marketing coordination roles.
• Strong problem-solving skills, able to analyse various data and issues and recommend effective solutions, while managing multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Skilled at building and maintaining professional, customer-focused relationships across the organisation and within your team.

More about you: You’ll coordinate projects and campaigns to keep everyone on track and ensure deadlines are met. With experience in planning or marketing coordination, you’re a strong problem solver who can handle diverse data and issues, offering effective solutions while managing multiple initiatives simultaneously. You’ll build and maintain professional, customer-focused relationships across the organisation and your team. Strong planning, coordination, and communication skills are essential, along with the ability to multitask and prioritise. You should be familiar with marketing operations, tracking tools, and proficient in Microsoft Office and project management software like Monday.com.

The benefits: We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for. We know that there’s always more we can do to make you smile, that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:

• Competitive salary, with a salary review yearly
• Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
• Excellent holiday package – up to 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays) with the option to buy or sell leave
• Cashback plan for healthcare costs – up to £500 saving per year
• A bonus scheme for all colleagues at 2%
• Training and development
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more

What’s next? If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us. As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and accessible recruitment process for all. We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We’re happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best. If you are a Places for People customer and you’re looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team on skillsemployment@placesforpeople.co.uk.

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