Marketing Officer – Digital

Job Description

Job title: Marketing Officer – Digital

Company: Nottingham City Council

Job description: Job Description:

Organisation: Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO)

Work Location: Barnsdale Way, Grove Park, Enderby, Leicester, LE19 1ES

Salary: Grade 10 £33,060

Working Hours: 37 hours per week Hybrid working (minimum 1 day in our Leicester office)

Contract Type: 12 Month Maternity cover

Interview Date(s): 24th January

Are you an eCommerce Merchandiser or a Digital Marketing Manager / Executive looking for a new role?

ESPO is looking for someone who is passionate about e-commerce and ensuring our customers have a fantastic experience when they visit our websites. As we continue to develop our websites and online presence, we are looking for a person to join our Digital team for a 12-month maternity cover position.

About the Role

Working closely with the Digital Brand Manager, as well as the Product Managers and Marketing team, you will be responsible for keeping our online products are up to date and shown in the best possible manner. This will include product management via the Agility PIM, such as adding, amending, deleting products and product SEO, ensuring the product information is always accurate.

You will support the Digital Brand Manager with Supplier marketing tasks, such as liaising with suppliers and implementing website banners and supplier brand shops.

Working with the Klevu merchandising platform you will effectively merchandise products online to specifications set by the Digital Brand Manager.

You will be able to prioritise workflows and share best practise within the digital team. Writing engaging copy, you will ensure that ESPO’s products are effectively merchandised on screen in our growing digital portfolio of catalogues. This role will work closely with the Digital Brand Manager, the catalogue team, product managers and the marketing team.

This is a hybrid role (1-2 days a week in our Leicester office)

Responsibilities

• Develop, understand and manage the content, with particular focus given to ESPO’s Magento platform and Product Information Management (PIM) system. Improving accuracy and relevance of content by ensuring the alignment with customer search requirements.

• Learn how to utilise the Klevu merchandising platform to manage product positioning and promotion in line with the merchandising plan.

• Contribute towards product marketing campaigns plans, by ensuring content of product is represented correctly online, as directed by the Digital Brand Manager in line with deadlines.

• Understand taxonomy and range consistency, and assist the Digital Brand Manager, together with relevant stake holders in creating and implementing a digital brand guideline.

• Assist in managing consistent and appropriate messaging through product marketing communication activities across all channels ensuring the ESPO brand is effectively delivered with maximum impact.

• Understand that the customer is the heart of everything we do and strive to make the customer journey an enjoyable experience by writing effective and solution based copy for products on the web.

• To effectively promote the brand internally and externally through all appropriate media in line with ESPO’s governance structure.

• Excellent communication and organisational skills and able to build strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business.

• Support internal teams in copy writing for marketing campaigns and other corporate marketing publications and material.

• Monitor progress and results of the product enhancement to agreed objectives and measure ROI.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Digital Marketing qualification or relevant e-commerce experience

• Digital product merchandising experience

• Experience of working with a PIM for digital product management

• Product SEO experience

• Demonstrate high standard of attention to detail and strong organisation skills.

• Self-motivated, with a completer finisher mentality, capable of working independently and solving problems.

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal to peers, colleagues, customers and other partners/stakeholders.

• Strong Microsoft Office skills.

• Ability to write and edit copy with attention to detail and accuracy

We’d also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

What we offer:

• Flexible working opportunities and access to employee benefits portal with car lease scheme.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays and a scheme to buy additional leave.
• Local Government Pension Scheme with a generous employer contribution.
• Great office location next to Fosse Park, with free on-site parking and easy access to M1 and M69.
• 12 Month Maternity Cover contract
• Hybrid working (minimum 1 day in our Leicester office)

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of ESPO. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Meta Blount – Digital Brand Manager

Email:

How to Apply

ESPO is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our customers. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the customers we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click ‘Apply Now’. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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About ESPO

We’re a unique organisation, owned by the public sector and sharing their values and ethos, but operating with a commercial edge. As a specialist procurement body, we pride ourselves on establishing procurement solutions that save money for the public sector. View to find out more.

We have modern, open-plan offices with excellent transport links and a friendly workplace environment. We offer flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, a contributory pension scheme, training (including professional CIPS qualification) and opportunities to develop your career.

ESPO is supported by wide range of roles across many different disciplines including sales, marketing, procurement, finance, operations (warehouse management and transport planning) and customer services. So whether you are interested in a public-facing role or playing your part behind the scenes, ESPO could be the place for you.

To learn more about working for ESPO please visit .

Expected salary: £33060 per year

Location: Leicestershire

Job date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:21:48 GMT

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