Marketing Graduate Intern / Brand / Category Associate - Temporary Role at Avon

Role Type

• Temporary Role  6 Months assignment  to start on 1 May 2022

Role Purpose:

• This position is responsible for Category administrative activities to support the Category Managers in achieving their financial targets as well as assisting category managers in contributing towards business growth through the delivery of Category PLANS.
• This is a position which involves significant administration and data entry and loading marketing plans on to the marketing system.
• The position will also support the selection of new product interest from brand plans (eprofile + Horizon data maintenance) as well as designing and maintaining pagination files according to the category managers input.

Key Responsibilities

• MAPS, EProfile and Horizon loading and maintenance (including working with EBM and Systems Support to rectify issues) Leader List loading and checking , paginations and flow book maintenance
• Point of contact for system queries from campaign, creative, EBM, Customer and Representative queries and Supply Chain
• All aspects of product administration ( including answering queries, updating tracking spreadsheets with brochure plans, maintaining pagination up to date, managing samples/products for photography, new products flow, phase out dates)
• Responsible for consolidating data, analyzing data

Adhoc project work

• Assist with brochure creative and signoffs, and followup on creative issues related to products description, FSC codes, offers set up in system
• Assisting category team in administrative workload such as products withdrawals, handling logistics of Customer competitions/Reps incentives etc.

Build & Manage Marketing Plan

• Responsible for consolidating data, analyzing data and executing the plan created by the Category Manager using inputs into the process.

Develop Content

• Support all Category Managers (Snr, Associate) in developing the pagination for the Category
• Support all Category Managers (Snr, Associate) with the review of space allocation of the assigned Category
• Responsible for using the finalised pagination uploaded into MAPS to produce the Category Leader List
• Responsible for producing creative briefs for single category spreads
• Responsible for presenting the brief to the Creative team at the Creative Brief Meeting
• Responsible for the Clerical checks of PDFs at Final Look Review to check there are no problems

Analyse Campaign

• Responsible for reviewing the trend report from a Category perspective and proving commentary and weekly performance trackers
• Responsible for preparing contingency plan business cases based on the Trend Report

Matrix Relationships and Interfaces

• Responsible for integrating and aligning with matrix stakeholders such as Commercial Strategy, Campaign, Creative, Field, Finance etc.)
• Communicates with Category Planners, Campaign, Art Director and Copywriter on daily basis
• Critical that their communication is effective as this could lead to the wrong products being listed in brochure or being flowed after their status date. Also lead to wrong estimates.
• Needs to have a dynamic and enthusiastic presence and be able to influence others, and get his/her point across in a clear, effective way.

We'd Love You To Have

Work Experience

• Ideally with experience of working in commercial marketing

Education

• Graduate/ degree calibre

Skills & Competencies required

• Must be proficient in word, excel and PowerPoint (intermediate to advance)
• Coordinates on a daily basis with other groups within Marketing, however relatively little contact with groups outside of marketing.
• High level of coordination amongst marketing functions. Ability to build relationships with Regional Brand Marketing and Global.
• Passion and aptitude for this area is essential with a desire to progress within marketing function
• Needs to be able to resolve MAPS system issues on a daily basis, and also come up with alternative pagination flows for brochure. Faced with challenges from other teams not doing the changes quick enough, needs to feel comfortable chasing others and ensuring the work is completed in order for her to do her work.
• Needs to overcome last minute changes to brochure plans and suggest alternatives, should not be resistant to change.