Brand Communications Assistant (C3) – Argos
Role Purpose
As a Brand Communications Assistant at Argos, you’ll help the Brand Communications team bring our brand propositions to life through engaging, customer-focused campaigns. Working closely with the Brand Comms Manager and wider team, you’ll support the planning and delivery of brand and broadcast communications across paid, owned and earned channels. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for marketing, advertising and brands, who is eager to learn and develop their skills in a fast-paced retail environment.
Key Responsibilities
Support the delivery of brand and broadcast campaigns, helping coordinate activity from brief through to launch
Support the development of engaging creative campaigns and communications
Help write clear briefs, updates and feedback for creative, media and internal teams
Assist with the development of creative assets and media plans across appropriate channels
Support campaign reporting by collating results and sharing key learnings
Help capture and share campaign learnings to inform future activity
Build positive relationships with internal stakeholders and agency partners
Support budget tracking, purchase order management and campaign administration
Help ensure all advertising is compliant, legal and aligned with brand guidelines
Keep up to date with marketing, advertising, customer and cultural trends
Skills & Experience
Essential
A genuine passion for marketing, advertising and brands
Curious, enthusiastic and eager to learn new skills
Strong organisation skills and attention to detail
A willingness to use data, insight and feedback to improve work
Confident communicator who enjoys working with others
Proactive, positive and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
Desirable
Some exposure to marketing, communications or project-based work through study, work experience, volunteering or personal interests
Retail or customer-focused experience
About You
You’re curious, organised and enthusiastic, with a real interest in marketing, advertising and brands. You don’t need extensive marketing experience, but you should be eager to learn, willing to get stuck in and excited by the opportunity to develop a career in brand communications. You enjoy working with others, take ownership of your work and bring a positive attitude to everything you do.
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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.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
Over 150 years old and still going strong, we’re the UK’s second-biggest retailer. Every day, the nation shops with us because they know they’ll get affordable, good food and excellent service.
We focus on great value and convenient shopping across our family of brands, from Argos, Nectar and Habitat to Sainsbury’s Bank, Smart Charge and Tu.
What’s next for Sainsbury’s?
We've put food back at the heart of our business and we’re taking Sainsbury’s to the next level. We’re investing in technology and people and we’re thinking bigger about how we attract and connect with our customers, while doing everything we can to create a more resilient UK food system.
