Promotions Analyst roleMeeting our ambitious goals to expand and reach new locations across the UK requires serious planning. It means analysing every little detail, spotting, and overcoming barriers ...
Promotions Analyst role
Meeting our ambitious goals to expand and reach new locations across the UK requires serious planning. It means analysing every little detail, spotting, and overcoming barriers and working towards our ambitious plans. Think decision science, pricing, revenue, and sales, and you’re there. With a lot of doing to be done, you can be part of making big change happen across the globe. Bring your drive and enthusiasm, and we’ll welcome you in.
Our Ecommerce & Trading Team play a critical and exciting role in setting and managing the future commercial strategy for Premier In and restaurant brands and play a pivotal role in evolving these well-known and much-loved brands and accountable for the development of the trading strategy and delivery of the range, price and promotional plan for the platforms, c. £204m sales.
As the Promotions Analyst you will report into the Senior Trading Manager and play an integral part in helping to provide administration and planning support and meaningful reporting on our promotional and print strategy and commercial insight to our restaurant trading teams.
Function: Commercial/Trading
Location: Whitbread Court, Dunstable (hybrid way of working with coming into the office three times a week).
Employment Type: Secondment (4 months until February 2025)
Internal Grade: A14
What you will be doing:
- Accountable for providing an authoritative view of the organisation’s place in the market and competitor activity. Providing a clear understanding of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats – weekly, monthly
- Responsible for all promotional T&C’s and delivery of via Micros iCare and Ops Comms for trading channel activities and partnerships
- Working closely with the Senior Commercial Trading Manager and other key stakeholders to ensure offer approval process is adhered to ensure all offers are approved via the weekly restaurant trading meeting
- Liaison with suppliers for routine partnership queries and support including updating campaign creative and content for affiliate platforms relevant to season
- Attend weekly platform calls for updates on upcoming trading activity where required. Coordinate team input in to Stage & Gate campaign PCR’s
- AGP runbook support for print and promotional requirements for MFS
- Print - Raising and receipting all print Pos and supporting the Print Manager Supporting with ad hoc replenishment requests
- Print - Support with Brand requests and ITG liaison providing data for month end print/warehouse/stockholding and LSM volumes
What we need from you:
- Demonstrates a commercial, numerate and results orientation attitude with utmost focus on guests
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with high levels of gravitas, influencing and strong team-building skills
- Creative and disruptive thinker with the ability to deliver on a practical and commercial basis
- Excellent influencer and communicator, focused on building relationships across the business
- Ability to take a strategic approach to the organisation’s internal and external environment, and develop detailed understanding of the organisation and its opportunities for growth
- Able to use excel
- Highly organized individual who is able to work in a pressurized environment and adaptable to an ever changing environment
Benefits:
- Sharesave scheme
- Pensions scheme
- Up to 10% annual bonus
- Individual BUPA available
- Perks at work
- Optional contributory pension matched up to 10%
We’re 1,200 hotels and restaurants in the UK, Germany and the UAE, but we’re more than that. We’re the 35,000 people supporting our brands every day. The ones sourcing the nation’s favourite breakfast, plating up family favourites, and the great night’s sleep guaranteed people.
We’re also always preparing for new openings, looking ahead and revamping our online presence. We do it for our guests, and it’s the details that keep them returning time and time again. We could be at the end of their road, their trusty choice for business trips, or we could be the place they associate with big celebrations up and down the country. We’re a constant in a changing world, and we’d love you to join us. Bring your energy, ideas and sense of fun, we’re waiting and so are our brands.
Whitbread is an inclusive employer, strongly believing that everyone is unique and there should be no limits to ambition. We welcome your application whatever your background or situation. We are open to flexible working and, where possible, will try to support this.
We believe that everyone is unique and there should be no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition. We are committed to being an inclusive organisation that values diversity and welcomes your application whatever your background or situation.
Under-represented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities & members of the LGBTQIA+ community (those who identify as lesbian, gay, bi, trans and non-binary or those who use a different LGBTQIA+ term), are strongly encouraged to build a career with us. Speak to us about workplace adjustments, part-time and flexible working. Where possible we will support this.
Job ref: 24350-4493
Advertised: 30 Oct 2024
