Marketing Assistant

Are you passionate about marketing and creating great customer experiences? Join Specsavers as our new Marketing Assistant on a 12-month parental cover and help us deliver impactful campaigns and initiatives across Sweden.

At Specsavers, we're dedicated to making eye and hearing care accessible to all. As pioneers and a global leader in innovative technologies, we help people optimise their vision and hearing. We foster your expertise, welcome you into a supportive family, and propel your growth. Grounded in our collaboration, curiosity, courage, and compassion values, we strive to challenge the status quo and invite you to team up with us.

To strengthen our Trade Marketing team, we're searching for a Marketing Assistant to join our team for 12 months during our team member's parental leave

Your role

As a Marketing Assistant, you'll work closely with the Swedish marketing team and cross-functional departments to ensure PR and marketing initiatives are executed successfully and meet company objectives. You'll be the first point of contact for stores on local marketing matters and play a key role in planning and delivering campaigns that strengthen our brand and customer experience.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting Swedish stores with local marketing, including managing the marketing support inbox and training stores in the Local Marketing Toolbox.
• Assisting in developing local marketing plans and ensuring materials are up to date and accessible.
• Helping plan and execute local and national campaigns and events for both PR and marketing.
• Coordinating production of campaign and PR materials, POS, and managing vendors and timelines.
• Creating and updating internal documentation, presentations, tracking documents, and competitor analyses.

Your new team

You'll join our Trade Marketing team and work closely with colleagues in PR, Product, Retail, and Business Development, as well as external partners like media agencies and printers. We're a collaborative and supportive team that values creativity, structure, and delivering results together.

Your qualifications

We're looking for someone who combines marketing know-how with strong organizational skills and a passion for delivering great customer experiences.

Experience:

• Education in marketing or relevant work experience.
• Strong project management skills and ability to manage timelines and stakeholders.
• High level of service orientation and attention to detail.
• Fluency in Swedish and proficiency in English.
• Interest in user experience and customer journey.
• Familiarity with digital marketing, KPIs, and platforms such as Google and Meta.

As a person, you:

• Are structured, proactive, and able to prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
• Work collaboratively and respectfully, with a strong sense of accountability.
• Are curious and eager to learn, with an understanding of how everything we do impacts the end customer.

What awaits you upon joining Specsavers

At Specsavers, you'll get more than just a job. You will join us on a journey to make eye health services easily accessible to everyone.

We offer you an exciting and challenging everyday life and career in a company with success and ambitions. You will also be part of a workplace with a strong, unique family culture and a community that extends beyond a single department.

Joining us, you'll:

• Become a member of our regional team of friendly, talented, and passionate colleagues.
• Enjoy a compensation and benefits package matching your qualifications, including yearly eye health examinations, a subscription to Headspace, and much more. We are of course covered by a collective agreement as well.
• Grow/develop in your role with our free access to plenty of online learning offers, frequent one-to-one discussions with your manager, a Personal Development Plan that aligns with your talent and ambitions, and lots of responsibility
• Great coffee, lots of laughs, social gatherings and celebrations, exciting Christmas parties, and more

Is this your next step? Then apply today

To apply, please send us your CV using the button below. We want to respect your time, so including an application letter is optional. Feel free to apply as soon as possible.

Please avoid including any photos or references to your age in your CV. It contributes to a fairer and more unbiased assessment.

We review CV's and call in for interviews continuously and in standard, our recruitment process consists of a screening, 2-rounds of interviews including a personality assessment feedback.

If you're interested in learning more about the incredible team you'll be joining and our shared goals as a family business, visit our pages: This is who we are, and This is what we do.

About Specsavers

It's 1984, on the small Channel Island of Guernsey, when the optometrist couple Doug and Mary Perkins lay the foundation of their new optical company. They revolutionised the market by offering affordable glasses to everyone.

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