MX Smartphone Marketing Manager (12 month FTC)

Why join our team? World class, high performing product marketing campaigns across our premium smartphone category!

• A creative, strategic and commercial role within our mobile experience (MX) division
• Best in class marketing executions delivering exceptional commercial savvy, ensuring all investment delivers against our required marketing Key Performance Indicators and revenue targets, with a robust test and learn model
• Creative excellence and brand stewardship working hand in hand with regional and global HQ teams
• Exceptional and successful paid, earned and owned plans fully aligned to the varying audiences and category trends
• Maintain relationships with third-party channels and partnerships driving co-marketing initiatives
• All agency management and bringing together via fast focused loop teams
• A full year and quarterly product marketing strategy across all categories
• A robust working relationship with all MX functions, aligned to wider marketing, sales and omni
• Data and insights driven advisory for all marketing and omni channel executions., Aligned to the over-arching MX vision and supported by the team marketing lead, deliver the premium smartphone marketing strategy, launching and sustaining a range of products
• Set objectives with clear Key Performance Indicators and return on investment commitments that deliver against both target areas
• Be responsible for the customer journey, driving conversion across awareness, consideration and purchase intent
• Ensure investment allocation maps commercially, seeking incremental funding for pioneering activities
• Handle agencies for content, creative, paid media, CRM and programme management
• Align to the wider corporate marketing team including social and PR for seamless integration
• Deliver a cadence of measurement ensuring flex for 'never been done before' activities
Champion Smartphone Planning and Activation via Exceptional Teamwork
• Work collaboratively and cross-functionally across marketing, the broader organisation and our partners
• Deliver quarterly plans with continuous improvements in how to launch with impact, sustain momentum and deliver commercial alignment
• Handle all plans with a cadence of measurement, delivering strategic clarity and understanding of return on investment
• Deliver a regular cadence of partner communication to update the team on performance
• Own and build strong agency relationships, setting a culture of challenge and support
• Translating your excellent understanding of what motivates consumers, as well as your understanding of competitors, retail and digital
  
  A strong multi-tasker with experience of managing multi-category launches over a sustained period
• Collaborative with the ability to build a network, understand different views, overcome objections, deliver a vision and a plan and then make it happen by working with and through others
• Experience of navigating and delivering in a large, matrixed, multi-national organisation
• Brand and consumer driven to be the voice of the consumer, defining how Samsung products and services can tap into consumer needs and behaviours to generate demand.
• Media literate with an understanding of the media landscape and be able to deliver a media strategy
• Data savvy and able to identify and demonstrate insights and measure performance in real-time
• Externally focused with the ability to understand retail, channel and online needs and deliver messages and comms that will generate demand.
  
  Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week
• Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance
• Pension contribution
• Three volunteering days each year
• Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday
• Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products
• Access to a discount shopping portal
• Partner Colleagues are not eligible for certain types of statutory leave such as Samsung Family Leave or Sick Leave policies but may be eligible for statutory payments via their agency