The Very Group is a UK-focused retail and eCommerce company serving consumers through its Very.co.uk platform. The business brings together a broad selection of brands and products with flexible payment options, helping families shop around busy lifestyles. Its workplace messaging emphasizes employee growth, wellbeing, purpose, and belonging, making The Very Group a relevant employer to explore for careers across a large consumer retail and digital commerce organization.
Technology Partnerships Marketing Manager – 12-Month FTC, Liverpool Hybrid
Lead strategic retail media partnerships and campaigns for Very, the UK digital retailer. Manage partner investment, campaign delivery and a team of three across Technology and Home Appliances.
Description
- Set partner marketing strategies and deliver campaigns that support both partner and Very objectives
- Cultivate productive relationships with prospective and existing partners
- Coordinate with internal and external teams across channels, categories, agencies, creative, brand and marketing
- Help position Very as a Partner of Choice through campaigns that strengthen its market credibility
- Protect Very’s brand by aligning partner activity with the broader marketing calendar and brand guidelines
- Grow partner investment through persuasive proposals, negotiation, influence, innovation and creative thinking
- Coordinate campaign activation teams to support clear briefing and efficient delivery
- Control campaign budgets and monitor performance against agreed objectives
- Schedule annual and quarterly partner activity, manage critical paths, secure funding and assess risks
- Monitor partner revenue and work with category and finance teams on forecasting
- Manage and support a team of three
- Create and execute integrated retail media campaigns for the Technology and Home Appliances categories
- Partner with brands such as Apple, Samsung and Shark Ninja to deliver commercial growth, stronger relationships and compelling customer experiences
Requirements
- Professional experience in partnerships, retail media or brand marketing
- Solid knowledge of the beauty industry
- Demonstrated success delivering multi-channel marketing, partnership or retail media campaigns
- Experience developing strategic brand partnerships that generate growth and lasting value
- Strong commercial awareness
- Skilled at finding opportunities, shaping persuasive propositions and securing investment
- Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management abilities
- Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders
- Thorough knowledge of planning, delivering, measuring and optimising campaigns across multiple channels
- Able to use data, customer insight and performance analysis to guide decisions and evidence return on investment
- Strong creative judgement
- Able to create effective campaigns for Technology customers
- Experience overseeing budgets, forecasting revenue and monitoring commercial results
- Effective collaborator in a fast-moving environment with many stakeholders
- Able to balance and deliver multiple priorities
- Willingness to complete credit, CIFAS and Right to Work checks, plus a DBS check where required
- Disclosure of relevant information before checks, including any unspent criminal convictions
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements
- Inclusive workplace culture
- £1,000 flexible benefits allowance
- 30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Up to 25% discount at Very.co.uk
- Pension matching of up to 6%
- Reasonable adjustments and recruitment assistance
- Option for interviews to take place remotely
- Colleague networks focused on inclusion and neurodiversity