RS PRO Assistant Brand Manager

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Location:

Corby, ENG, GB, NN17 5JF

Brand: RS Pro

Function:
Marketing

Work Location:

Hybrid

Location
:
This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our Corby office.

Contract Type
:
Perm

The Opportunity

The Assistant Brand Manager role provides an individual with an exciting opportunity to join the RS PRO marketing and brand team at a time of evolving the brand proposition and go-to-market strategy. You will play a part in accelerating the growth of the RS PRO brand across key product categories and markets. The role is critical to delivering the RS PRO marketing plan, supporting the launch of new product introductions, activating and communicating the RS PRO brand across these core markets.

What You Will Be Doing

• Brand Champion: you will act as a brand evangelist and leading advocate to inspire the RS PRO global community, across the RS Group and across external channels. Promoting awareness and understanding of the RS PRO brand, whilst ensuring brand consistency in activation and communication.
• Brand Strategy: supporting the brand team in delivering the five-year brand strategy, ensuring all activity aligns with long term growth objectives. Supporting the SBM in day-to-day execution of the Brand plans.
• Campaign and go-to-market: working with cross functional teams and external marketing activation agencies to coordinate and execute the delivery of integrated TTL campaigns that drive brand awareness and engagement across our key markets and regions.
• External Communication: working closely with internal and external agencies to support the development and delivery of branded communication. Executing with excellence the annual media activity across tier 1 markets to ensure the clear delivery of the RS PRO strategy, whilst driving effective and efficient localization.
• Internal Communication: you will support the implementation of a comprehensive communication plan to raise brand awareness, understanding and engagement with key RS PRO initiatives, the annual plan and strategy. You will work with the corporate communications team to deliver the right message to the right people, through the right channels, to drive clarity of message and cut through.
• Data and insight: you will be data driven, regularly analysing the data and trends, to unlock the why. Leveraging insights to inform how we should improve and accelerate RS PRO brand marketing activation and communication. You will support the brand marketing team in the delivery of regular brand and initiative performance reports.

How I will make a difference

• Be a tenacious project manager and an individual who shows good accountability to deliver results against project timelines and objectives.
• Be intellectually curious and analytical to diagnose/explore a topic and turn this into a clear set of recommendations.
• Displays and foster good entrepreneurial spirit and prioritises thinking outside the box.
• Enjoy and thrive by being agile, a self-starter, able to work with ambiguity and manage multiple projects at once.
• Demonstrate rigour in quality of work and great attention to detail.

We Are RS

At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world.

As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.

What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact.

Rewards

Our Reward Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial -…