Marketing Assistant (FTC)

If you love beauty, you’re in the right place.

As the ultimate curator of over 100 of the most in-demand, highly innovative and boundary-pushing beauty brands, we are the go-to destination for worldwide beauty discovery.

Together through our neighbourhood stores, online presence and loyalty scheme, Space NK has built a flourishing community in which to discover beauty. The customer is at the heart of everything we do, and we will always endeavour to offer everything they need to help them explore, experiment, and enjoy our brands.

Marketing Assistant | Head Office, London
Reports to: Marketing Manager

The Marketing Department is responsible for creating best-in-class marketing campaigns that maintain and grow Space NK’s customer base. The team focuses on increasing brand awareness to acquire new customers, while engaging existing customers to drive loyalty and increase customer lifetime value (LTV).

Our award-winning Marketing Department consists of four teams:

- Brand Marketing
- Brand Partnerships
- Content
- Paid Advertising

Role Overview

The Marketing Assistant is responsible for supporting the Marketing team with the planning and execution of marketing activity across an allocated category.

The role will play a key part in building and maintaining strong relationships with brand partners, developing marketing plans, supporting campaign execution and reporting on the performance of marketing activity.

Key Responsibilities

- Attend meetings for the allocated category, taking clear notes and sharing key actions and next steps with relevant stakeholders.
- Create presentations to communicate marketing plans and activity, ensuring all materials are aligned with Space NK’s brand identity and visual guidelines.
- Brief marketing assets to the relevant Design, Copy and Print teams, ensuring all activity is delivered in line with agreed critical paths and deadlines.
- Support the Marketing team in delivering activations for the allocated category, including packing goody bags, attending events and actively engaging with customers and the public to drive participation and brand awareness.
- Support relationships with brand partners, ensuring they are kept informed of upcoming Space NK activity and have the relevant assets required to support campaigns across their own marketing channels.
- Assist with internal communications and campaign briefings, ensuring relevant teams across Space NK are informed and aligned on upcoming launches, campaigns and marketing events.
- Distribute product samples provided by brand partners to internal teams for use across relevant marketing touchpoints.
- Create and maintain reports to track and communicate the performance of marketing activity.
- Stay up to date with beauty, retail and consumer trends, conducting regular competitor research and industry analysis to identify new opportunities and initiatives.
- Support the Marketing team with general administrative tasks, including organising documents, maintaining campaign trackers and keeping marketing materials and information up to date.
- Work collaboratively with wider teams across Space NK to ensure campaigns and initiatives are delivered effectively and on time.

Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted.

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

If you want to find out more about us, what it is like to work for us, all about our benefits, and our pledges on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, please visit our website.

Space NK are an equal opportunities employer.

How We Will Use Your Information

We will use the information you provide to us with your job application to help us process your application for the specific job you have applied for. If you apply speculatively, we will process your application for the job/relevant business area that you detail within your email.

Please note that our current system does not use an automated filtering system.

All applications made via the website, through a third-party website or in-store will be kept on file for a period of 12 months.

This information will be retained and used to assess your suitability to similar positions that may arise in the future, or if the initial vacancy becomes live again during the 12-month period. If you would prefer us to not hold your information on file/ you wish to be ‘forgotten’ if you are not offered a position with Space NK, please email your ‘right to be forgotten’ to our recruitment email address with RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN as the title of the email. We will always inform you when we have deleted your application details, otherwise we will treat your application as consent to us holding this information.