Marketing Technology Manager

At Argos, we’re a digital-led UK retailer that keeps pushing boundaries to meet every generation with what they want, how and when they want it. As a market leader in general merchandise, serving millions of customers through our website, app, same-day delivery and Click & Collect services, we offer real opportunities to learn, grow and shape your career. With roles spanning Commercial, Buying, Merchandising, Design and Supply Chain, through to Digital, Operations, Customer Experience, Marketing, and People and Transformation , you will work with brilliant colleagues and directly shape how we serve our customers every day.

From enabling inspiring choice across our owned brands, including Habitat, Chad Valley and Bush, alongside the world’s biggest brands like Apple, Lego, Xbox and Samsung, to making shopping effortlessly convenient, championing trusted value and accelerating our strategy - Argos is an exciting place to build your future.

This role is focused on delivering our technical marketing capabilities for Argos and Habitat across inbound and outbound channels. You will be responsible for the identification, implementation, and on-going support for marketing technology for the business.

You will be an expert in Digital Marketing best practice, and be fully capable of dealing with the technical elements of requirements across the business in areas such as tagging, tracking, and content tech including production, storage, and distribution. You’ll have experience with industry-leading tools supporting data enrichment, dynamic content development, channel activation, and insights & analytics.

As part of a wider digital marketing team with access to support from inside the business, our agencies and key marketing platforms, you’ll support Argos and Habitat with the capabilities they need to deliver exceptional customer-first communications.

• Own and manage Digital Marketing tools through the stack, providing support to primary users across the business in delivering relevant and personalised messaging to our customers.
• Support the delivery of end-to-end Digital Marketing capability with robust, performant platform and data integrations.
• Developing functional capabilities by maximising usage of features within existing tools, and delivering Buy Build Partner assessments in collaboration with Product and Engineering stakeholders where capability gaps are identified.
• Facilitating training & development on the tools for cross-functional stakeholders to ensure optimal activation of available capabilities, and unlocking operational efficiencies.
• Planning target state strategy for this part of the stack based on assessment of business impact and operational requirements.
• Managing relationships and contracts with suppliers we leverage to deliver market-leading communications in this space.
• Working collaboratively with our agency to support the delivery of complex communications programmes through an automated, data-driven delivery pipeline.
• Build great relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across the business so that work is delivered on time.

• Simplify complex information and produce clear documentation & presentation material to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders; gaining buy-in across the business is crucial to succeeding.
• Build deep knowledge of Marketing data, operations, and execution. Leverage all group and industry knowledge to ensure you become an expert.
• Have strong commercial and analytical skills to work with internal teams and agencies to build business cases.
• Focus on outcomes and impact to ensure that all deliverables are measurable, and contribute to team and organisation objectives.
• Being able to deliver things quickly and proactively:
  Sainsbury’s is a 24/7 organisation and decisions are made ng reactive is key in retail so you should be comfortable in a fast environment (and enjoy it!)
• Strong influencing skills to work with a number of internal stakeholders on several concurrent work streams.
• Be very self-driven, the role requires someone with energy to manage the strategy…