Assistant Marketing Manager – Category Marketing

Role Overview

Assist the Category Marketing Manager in building and delivering customer-relevant plans for M&S Food products, launches, and seasonal moments. Work with trading teams, buyers, and product developers to keep close to what’s launching and what matters commercially.

What You Will Do

Support joined-up launches and seasonal activity, manage timelines, gather information, and chase inputs and approvals. Write clear artwork and campaign briefs, coordinate feedback, and manage content and artwork approvals.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate has a real interest in food, customers, and products, with excellent organisation and attention to detail. They should be comfortable with numbers, commercial information, and everyday planning tools, and have a friendly, proactive way of working with different teams.

Requirements

• Support the Category Marketing Manager to build and deliver customer relevant plans
• Build strong relationships with trading teams, buyers, and product developers
• Keep the day to day detail on track: maintain plans and trackers, organise meetings and actions, manage timelines, gather information and chase inputs and approvals with confidence
• Write clear artwork and campaign briefs
• Coordinate feedback and manage content and artwork approvals through to final sign off
• Brief the right marketing channels
• Work with Category Marketing, Propositions, Own Brand, Events and other teams
• Check creative and content carefully before it goes live
• Support launch reviews by bringing together results, feedback and practical learnings

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays
• Paid Wellbeing Day
• Flexible bank holidays to honour cultural or religious observances
• Option to buy or carry over up to 5 extra days
• Smart Working with up to 40% from home
• Option to work from abroad for up to 90 days a year
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• 3 extra days for your wedding/honeymoon
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension scheme
• Corporate Medical Cash Plan
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Tax-efficient payroll giving to your favourite charities
• Funding for professional qualifications
• Monthly Employee of the Month awards (£250 bonus)
• Referral bonuses of up to £1,500
• Regular Wellbeing Workshops
• 30+ Wellbeing Champions
• Paid Volunteer Day
• Online perks platform with discounts on top brands, days out, and gym memberships