Senior Marketing Coordinator

If you love beauty, you’re in the right place. As the ultimate curator of over 100 of the most in-demand, highly innovative and boundary-pushing beauty brands, we are the go-to destination for worldwide beauty discovery. Together through our neighbourhood stores, online presence and loyalty scheme, Space NK has built a flourishing community in which to discover beauty. The customer is at the heart of everything we do, and we will always endeavour to offer everything they need to help them explore, experiment, and enjoy our brands.

Reports to: Category Marketing Manager

Department: Marketing | Team: Brand Partnerships

Department Overview: The marketing department is responsible for creating best-in-class marketing campaigns that maintain and grow our customer base. Increasing brand awareness to acquire new customers and engaging our existing customer base to increase LTV, our award-winning marketing department consists of four teams: brand marketing, brand partnership marketing, content and paid media.

Role Overview: The senior marketing coordinator is responsible for planning and delivering marketing activity for the brand partners within the allocated category. This role requires close working relationships with the rest of the marketing department, wider departments across the business and our brand partners. The role directly manages and is responsible for managing the day-to-day workload and development of the category marketing assistant.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and foster strong relationships and act as a day-to-day contact from the marketing department for your category brand partners.
• Create and confidently present brand partner marketing plans for always on and new product launch visibility across Space NK marketing channels, including overviews and detailed schedules.
• Own the brand partnerships calendar for the allocated category.
• Ensure activity across the category is aligned and doesn’t conflict with marketing plans for other categories.
• Own and coordinate activity within critical paths to ensure all marketing for brand partners within the allocated category is briefed, signed off and delivered on time.
• Clearly brief the wider marketing department on category marketing campaigns and activity, ensuring they are aware of key messaging, objectives and timelines.
• Propose and coordinate the execution of any experiential activations related to marketing campaigns for category brand partners.
• Forecast performance and ensure all category marketing activity has clearly defined objectives and KPIs that are measurable and align with marketing and business goals.
• Accurately and confidently, record activity and report performance of marketing campaign activity to brand partners and the wider Space NK business.
• Budget management of relevant cost lines, ensuring spend is in line with plan, accurately tracked and invoices paid.
• Effectively line manage and develop the category marketing assistant.
• Keep up to date on the latest innovations within marketing, proposing new ideas and opportunities that relate to business objectives.

About You:

You are a creative, organised and adaptable person with a real passion for marketing and brand storytelling. You are brilliant at building strong relationships, and you are excited by the opportunity to bring our brand partners to life at Space NK through best-in-class marketing campaigns.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience of proposing, planning and executing stand-out marketing activations.
• Experience of proposing, planning and executing customer-facing events.
• Experience of building positive relationships with external partners.
• Experience of creating and sharing a marketing calendar.
• Experience of coordinating projects in line with a critical path.
• Experience of guiding and developing junior team members.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• High attention to detail.
• A problem-solving approach.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to present to large audiences.
• A problem-solving mindset and proactive approach to challenges.

You’ll Thrive In This Role If:

• You love marketing and brand storytelling.
• You think customer first in everything you do.
• You are results-oriented and driven by achieving measurable impact within your role.
• You love being part of a team and working with others to develop plans and find solutions.
• You can clearly communicate and are confident in speaking to people of all levels across the business.
• You love working in fast-moving, evolving environments.
• You value a culture of continuous learning and growth and are always looking for opportunities to expand your skills.
• You have a proactive and flexible approach.

The role will require occasional stop-over travel outside of London and will be required to work evenings and weekends where event management falls at this time. Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted. All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

If you want to find out more about us, what it is like to work for us, all about our benefits, and our pledges on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, please visit our website. Space NK are an equal opportunities employer.