• Job Title: Media Innovation Manager
• Level & Responsibility: This role is at a Manager level in terms of skills and requirements, but does not currently have line management responsibility within its remit.
• Salary: £39,000+ per annum, depending on experience plus a 10% bonus scheme
• Location & Hybrid Working: Nottingham, 2 days per week in the office
  

The role

We are looking for a Media Innovation Manager to join our central Innovation team working with Boots Media Group. In this role, you will be a key figure within the partnership business and responsible for supporting on the development and implementation for all new digital and physical media innovation for one of our largest and most ambitious retailer partnerships. You’ll be the lead on implementing innovative media solutions, building and refining our processes and go-to-market strategies, and working closely with our partnership teams to understand how we’re able to overcome the challenges currently facing our supplier partners.

Why SMG?

We are dedicated to supporting our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised by Best Companies within the top 5 best Marketing & Media agencies to work for, with a World Class and Outstanding accreditation across the past 2 years. 

We are also dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...

💰 Generous discretionary bonus scheme

🧘‍♂️ £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions

🫶 4 additional Wellbeing Days - one to be taken each quarter, dedicated to focusing on your wellbeing

📚 £500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development

🎧 Free headspace subscription

🕐 4pm Friday finishes all year round

🥳 Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year

Why you?

In line with our company values, within your role you'll want to stay honest, stay hungry, stay foolish, and most importantly, have fun! More specifically, you'll have / be:

• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external.
• A proven track-record of being able to deliver strong results in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience of working within a retailer and understanding of how multiple functions work collaboratively.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects at once, providing both short and long-term projects.
• Commercial competence.
• Aptitude for working independently and proactively as a self-starter.
• Previous experience building/working in an existing retail media network, or a media agency is ideal but not essential.

P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:

• You’ll be responsible for helping to develop and implement our future innovation roadmap for Physical and Digital Media Development at one of our key Retailers. You’ll work closely with our Client and Operations teams within the retailer partnership team, as well as our retailer colleagues to ensure a smooth deployment of new media services.
• You’ll provide strategic support, such as long-term brand plan advice to the partnership team regarding both Digital and Physical channels, as well as how new innovative solutions may help solve their brand challenges.
• Support with challenging operational issues to ensure all channels are providing value for SMG, our Retail Partner and Brands/Suppliers.
• Support on the development of tools & platforms that are required that would improve efficiency or commercialisation of digital and physical properties at the Retailer.
• Be accountable for the on-boarding process of new digital and technical partners from identification to procurement and eventual roll-out.
• Support in the activation of new media channels, including the development of our off-site 1PD proposition, the development of On-site media, and the future digitalisation of our in-store offering.
  

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