Trade Marketing Assistant (12 month FTC)

To enhance the performance of our Cardiff teams and foster seamless communication between our amazing Cardiff and London teams, we are seeking a dynamic individual who can actively oversee the newsstand circulation of our titles/vertical. Your mission will be to drive revenue growth and boost profitability.

Additionally, as part of your role, you will have the opportunity to further support the account managers by taking on additional administrative responsibilities. These tasks will involve managing various aspects related to the team's accounts, including but not limited to handling invoicing, processing booking forms, and managing promotions within our Apex system.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary Marketforce point of contact for your titles within Marketforce and Future.



• Contribute valuable insight/experience to departmental meetings (problems, solutions, highlights, etc).


• Proactive involvement in wider team projects (e.g. Supply / Range).


• Support with supply planning and proactively consider if supplies are at the right level.


• Identify Range risks and opps throughout the year, ready for proposal time. Able to write proposals with little help.


• Contribute to the Budget process, ie analysing topline sales, supply, and price trends, able to make some suggestions for next year. Awareness of the importance of key issues and anomaly planning.


• With support from management get involved in the design and execution of retail promotions.


• Aim to resolve queries and find solutions independently, but don't hesitate to seek guidance from the Trade Marketing Team


• Maintain accurate records of title details (Orion, Production tracker, etc) and of trade marketing activity and invoicing (TM grid).


• Provide sales reporting and analysis for brand directors/publishers, including title, market performance, and competitor forecasting.
  
  Good understanding of portfolio and newsstand goals and to develop and track the progress of your title goals.


• Ability to develop good relationships with publishers and internal departments.


• Great communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.


• Aim to resolve queries and find solutions independently but seek guidance from the Trade team


• Ability to analyze and interpret data, and know where to find the relevant source.


• Attention to detail and ability to prioritise work to meet strict deadlines.


• Good knowledge of Microsoft or Google IT Packages including Excel/Sheets and experience in creating presentations in PowerPoint/Slides.
  
  Marketforce is Future's leading sales, marketing, and distribution company. Leveraging its global expertise, Marketforce proactively seeks opportunities to drive business growth. With expertise across mass markets and specialist products, Marketforce ensures businesses get fantastic representation and sales-driving opportunities across the world., We're Future. We're 3000+ colleagues over 250+ brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We've got ambitious plans that build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities and we're looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.


Our Future, Our Responsibility - Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we're going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We're an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees - current and future - are treated with respect and fairness.

And to top it all off, not only do we offer unlimited holiday because we trust you to manage your workload and time but we also offer a share in our success whereby every colleague is eligible to join our profit pool bonus scheme - if Future hits their performance targets all colleagues may receive a bonus.

Internal job family level P8

The expected range for this role is up to £24,000.

This is a Hybrid role from our Cardiff Office, working three days from the office, two from home