Company Description
The Warehouse Group looks after some of Aotearoa’s iconic brands - The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, and Noel Leeming. We’re driven to create exceptional retail brands our customers love and our team members can take pride in! This guides how we show up every day and keeps us laser-focused on our customers, markets, looking to excite, bring joy and deliver value through our products and offering.
At Warehouse Stationery, we believe in making it easy for our customers to make more happen. We do it by providing a full range of products, services and solutions for businesses, customers and students. Warehouse Stationery offers a dynamic landscape; multi-store formats/channels, consumer and business customers and segments.
Job Description
Reporting into our Category Marketing Lead – Warehouse Stationery, you will be joining a small but mighty marketing team. This varied role will see your efforts range from: delivering trading campaigns, involvement with major trading events, ensuring the category teams are supported by marketing campaigns and activations. Not to mention working closely with other internal teams to ensure marketing activities are integrated providing a cohesive customer experience.
A snapshot of your role:
- Deliver and execute marketing campaigns fitting category plans and marketing strategy
- Drive major trading events (Back to School, school holidays) and events to agreed Marketing and Trading calendar
- Ensure the category teams are supported with impactful marketing activity to drive sales, profitability and brand building in line with the brand strategy, category strategy and trading requirements
- Work closely with suppliers and creative, media team, merchandising, operations and omni experience to ensure marketing activities are integrated providing a cohesive customer experience
- Collaborate with other Marketing Managers/Leads where dual campaigns are being crafted
- Manage agreed aspects of Marketing A&P budget efficiently across activity to improve effectiveness
- Use insights to drive data-driven decision-making and craft marketing activity
Qualifications
We are looking for a confident operator who loves the fun and fast pace of retail, happy to roll up the sleeves and get stuck in. Retail savvy, keen to grow, reliable and customer centric mindset describe you down to a t. Your marketing background and trading mindset are an absolute must.
- Retail marketing experience preferred!
- Curious about consumer/shopper behaviour
- Adaptable, flexible – thrive with pace
- Strong relationship and stakeholder management skills – working across everyone from agencies, supplier brands, internal cross-functional stakeholders
- Project management skills - managing timelines and budgets
- A confident interactor and strong communicator – you know how to win friends, influence, negotiate and push back when needed
Additional Information
Come work with us as we aim to “Help Kiwis live better everyday!”.
When you join us, we offer a range of benefits that work for you, your lifestyle, and your career.
Our teams balance a hybrid working approach (up to 2 days per week from home). Conveniently located in Northcote, we offer free car parking on-site, EV charging and on-site café and gym access. This on top of great discounts across brands, birthday leave, wellbeing support and excellent opportunities within the business!
If you love retail, know what drives customers, and want to make your mark on a much-loved Kiwi brand – we’d love to chat.
