In Store Marketing Specialist

In Store Marketing Specialist – POS Creative

£36,000 – £42,000 salary + Pension + Bonus + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday

Southampton, Head Office.

It’s our job to help customers create better homes and better lives. It could be yours, too. Making sure our customers can find what they want in our stores quickly and simply is vitally important to us at B&Q, and as an In Store Marketing Specialist it will be to you too. As In Store Marketing Specialist, you will ensure our Point of Sale (POS) is inspiring and easy to shop, project managing the design of all the materials, making sure they meet the marketing brief and that they are created on time and to budget.

As a proven Project Manager, you’ll be building on your budget management experience, solving problems and managing resource from conception to creation. You’ll need to be an innovative thinker, having demonstrated this previously in design work in similar roles. Your understanding of retail and what the customer needs will help you design POS that works well in our stores, being both practical and imaginative, using research data and analysis to inform the end result.

You’ll work closely with our Buying and Merchandising teams, so your communication skills will be second to none, ensuring everyone knows what is going on at all times and is happy with the end result. This is an exciting and varied role, with the potential to work with stores across the whole of Kingfisher (our parent company) moving forward.

At B&Q, our core purpose is to create Better Homes, Better Lives. We’ve helped more people make the most of their homes than anyone else, and we like to think we do the same for careers. Our policy to promote from within creates a unique culture at B&Q, where people are not just given the chance to thrive, but the support they need to make it a reality. As an In Store Marketing Specialist at B&Q, this is your opportunity to make a mark in a fast-paced and highly rewarding business. Join us and build a career you can be proud of.

You can do it.

More about Careers at B&Q

With over 300 stores in the UK and Ireland and our Store Support Office in Southampton, we’re a local employer for many. Part of the Kingfisher Plc, Europe’s leading DIY Home Improvement retailer, the group employs over 78,000 people worldwide and has an annual revenue of over £10 billion.

We’re committed to putting our people at the heart of our business and are proud that we were the first retailer in the world to win the Gallup worldwide award for outstanding Employee Engagement, picking up the award for five consecutive years.

We know that Corporate Social Responsibility is important to you and that you’ll want to know we are doing business responsibly and safeguarding the resources of our planet for the future. In 2007, B&Q committed to become a One Planet business and to help our customers achieve One Planet Homes. This commitment encompasses policies for sustainability in our approach to carbon, waste, water and timber to name a few. We have since been honoured with the UK’s most prestigious business award, the Queens Award, for our work in creating a more sustainable business and helping people improve the sustainability of their homes.