Job Description

Royal Talens is a manufacturer and supplier of high-quality painting, drawing and colouring materials for artists, creative hobbyists, designers, children and educational institutes. The company is recognised globally amongst artist, hobbyist and beginners for its quality brands such as Talens, Rembrandt, Amsterdam, Van Gogh. Talens Art Creation, Bruynzeel and for its Sakura products. Headquartered in Apeldoorn, Holland we produce, distribute and promote more than 10, 000 finished articles to more than 100 countries.

We are part of the Japanese, Sakura Colour Products Corporation, a global leader in artists, school, hobby & Crafts materials, stationery and writing instruments. We create superior products by carrying out our business in a sustainable manner, now and in the future. Since our inception, we have developed a global reputation for both the extensiveness and quality of their product ranges alongside our modus operandi of openness, transparency and professionalism of our global team of passionate, knowledgeable and customer focused representatives and supporting employees.

Marketing Executive - Appointment

Reporting to the Managing Director - UK & Ireland, we currently wish to receive applications from candidates who will be located from our UK offices in Wokingham, Berkshire and therefore the appointed candidate will need to be within commutable distance of our offices and probably along the west of London and M4 corridor.

Key accountabilities

Working closely with the Managing Director, the Marketing Executive will play a key role in the achievement of campaign marketing objectives by:

Develop and deliver a long-term marketing strategy, including social media, content calendar, and collateral to ensure collective understanding and drive commercial opportunities delivering campaigns to promote product launches and brand awareness

You will closely collaborate with key stakeholders to understand customer needs to generate high-quality and meaningful marketing content, and continuously measure and improve the impact of your work.

Responsible for reporting; setting KPIs at the beginning of a campaign, managing client expectations in conjunction with the commercial objectives, setting clear reporting pathways and managing reports after campaigns to strict deadlines.

Create and deliver sales collateral, to enable sales teams to upsell. Working with the Product Brand managers, rolling out sales training programmes across the portfolio of Key & Strategic customer base and sales staff whilst ensuring these are kept fresh and up to date.

Manage multiple priorities and account manage/customer expectations, driving sponsored content campaigns with clear project plans skills and regular communication.

You'll work to build strategic relationships with both internal and external stake holders to deliver defined objectives and in time defined windows.

Ensure balance between brand and commercial needs for campaigns.

Compiling, scheduling, and delivering daily and or planned Social Media posts

Design, delivery of quarterly marketing campaigns, build and constructed "in design" software

Responsible for the management and monetary element of samples within the business

Ongoing self-development, learning of all applied software applications, not limited to but including CRM, BI Sales data, customer sales portals

To help in covering holidays and sickness in order processing, and daily internal sales admin.

Skills, experience & qualifications required

Bachelor's degree or higher.

2+ years' experience in a B2B or marketing role

Attention to detail with the ability to efficiently prioritise and execute projects with quality.

Solution oriented mindset that prospers on challenges and figuring out solutions and processes to complex problems.

Sense of ownership complemented by strong organisation and project management skills to meet deadlines.

Confident, tenacious relationship builder and problem solver.

Demonstrate brand passion, business acumen, commercial awareness, with the ability to build excellent stakeholder relationships.

Excellent verbal and written communication, negotiation and influencing skills.

Insight driven, making decisions rooted in customer benefit, strategic fit and commercial understanding.

Ability to manage and prioritise multiple concurrent projects from start to finish.

Team player with a genuine desire to contribute to the overall success of the entire team in addition to strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively collaborate internally with colleagues and externally with clients.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 25,000.00-30,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

Bonus scheme Performance bonus
Benefits:

Company pension Employee discount
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:

Wokingham RG40 1AU: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:

GCSE or equivalent (preferred)
Language:

English (required)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: RTUK ME2025