MERKUR Casino UK
Marketing Executive
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Marketing Executive
Salary: £30,000-35,000 DOE
Location: Head office - Milton Keynes - Hybrid
Contract Type: Permanent OR FTC – 9 Months
This role will involve weekly travel to venues and occasional overnight stays away.
We are looking for a driven, high energy 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 focus on traditional marketing methods, so experience in this is crucial, and requires a tailored approach to individual venues, getting to know the teams you look after and partnering with them.
About you:
- Passionate marketing executive ready to take the next step
- Ability to build trust with stakeholders and challenge ideas
- Experience in multi-channel marketing and traditional marketing techniques (e.g., print, direct mail, outdoor ads, in-person events)
- Ability to create and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- 'Solutions based' mentality, with the big picture and scale always in mind
- Fantastic interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills, confident in talking to people at all levels of our organisation
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Enthusiastic, with a positive attitude
- Team player but able to work on own initiative
- Strong English language and grammar skills
- Great imagination, drive, and an eye for detail
- Keen to learn and develop skills and have a willingness to embrace change
What’s in it for you?
Benefits:
- 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
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Your Role will include:
- Regularly attend on-site meetings 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
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