Marketing Executive (Mat Cover)

Job Title: Marketing Executive

Job Type: Full Time, 9 Month Maternity Cover

Working location: Peterborough, Hybrid (3 days in the office a week)

Role overview

At Travelex we want to lead the way on helping people send and spend money around the world, and we are the world leader in our game. In the UK specifically we have a large multi-channel retail foreign exchange business and a large outsourcing business, selling a wide range of products and services. We need a strong Marketing Exec to help us on our journey.

What is important to us

• Our people drive our success, so we spend a lot of time supporting and developing our people; and building an innovative, inspiring environment
• We put the customer at the heart of our thinking, striving for advocacy
• We’re bold with our ideas and ambitious on our targets
• We’re flexible, fast and deliver quickly and efficiently

The Marketing Executive role reports to the Partnership Marketing Manager and will support with our marketing planning and execution, based in Peterborough. The role will focus on our branded Travelex business and our partner supermarket business across instore and online channels. The role will involve working with various internal teams and external stakeholders, including agencies. It will suit a bright upcoming marketer who is keen to have a broad ranging role and gain experience across retail store and eCommerce marketing.

What you’ll do

• You will support the UK marketing team to deliver marketing initiatives
• This will primarily be focused on outsourced supermarket business, covering instore execution of marketing plans including:
• Helping manage our in-store point-of-sale collateral – including briefing and creating new content (e.g. Posters, leaflets, digital content, etc.), working with colleagues and agencies for creative/design, print agencies, and managing our in-store digital screen content management system
• Working with design team/agencies, copy-writing or working with copywriters, gaining compliance approvals and implementation via appropriate systems
• Supporting how we work with our partners, including the content they deploy on their websites about Travelex, and our regular update reviews
• Handling store queries / troubleshooting around our marketing
• You will work with partners and retail heads to deliver the customer review strategy
• Manage the ancillary products marketed through email, app and store channels
• You may also work to help us better understand our customer needs by helping with our consumer research and feedback exercises
• In so doing you will work with a range of internal stakeholders e.g. our design team, pricing team, legal & compliance, etc., as well as external agencies if required

What we want from you

• Proactivity; willingness to roll up sleeves and hunger to learn and develop
• Can do attitude; if something needs to happen, you find a way
• Agility; you understand the trade-offs between perfection and ‘good-enough’
• Strong interpersonal communication skills; you have to be able to communicate with, educate and get along with the team and outside the team

About you

• You’re smart, and a natural problem solver
• You have some experience and a strong interest to learn more in marketing and ecommerce. For example interest / experience in copy-writing, design, social media, email marketing.
• You have great organizational skills and attention to detail
• You enjoy a challenge and are happy to learn by doing, with good coaching along the way

Why Travelex?

To remain the world’s leading foreign exchange specialist, we are focused on making our customers’ lives simpler, more engaging and hassle free while they travel or move money abroad. We promise to give them the freedom and peace of mind to explore the world, their way – enabling them to travel confidently because they know they have us to lean on.

Customer centricity and digital are at the heart of our business strategy. Our commitment to innovation has never been greater, with the development of a number of digital-first, greenfield products and services. And with the Travelex's resources, deep industry experience and leading brand we are inventing the future of FX, cross-border e-commerce and international payments.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.