Campaign Strategist - Sales Executive

Relish, a dynamic company in Bristol, is seeking a Campaign Strategist to join their Client Services team. This exciting role offers the opportunity to work across a range of revenue streams, including insert planning, retailer management, product sampling, and bespoke projects.

About You

We are looking for someone eager to embark on or further their career in marketing and campaign management who is confident, enthusiastic, and driven to succeed. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated with a strong ability to meet both internal and client deadlines. They should remain calm under pressure, adapt to changing priorities, and excel at multitasking in a fast-paced environment.

If you're passionate about delivering exceptional campaigns and thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you.

About the Role

As a Campaign Strategist, your role will involve fostering valuable, long-lasting partnerships with clients and suppliers, ensuring KPIs are consistently met to an exceptional standard and that clients fulfil their SLAs. In doing so, you will play a crucial role in shaping and driving the success of our campaigns.

We welcome applications for this Campaign Strategist role from candidates with any of the following skills or attributes:

• Print management or specialism
• Business development
• Account management
• Account acquisition
• Client support
• B2B customer service

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the Sales team in converting campaigns, providing both administrative and client-facing support to ensure satisfaction and KPIs are met.
• Manage and execute insert campaigns for clients, ensuring delivery within agreed timelines and KPIs.
• Oversee 1-4 key retailer relationships, managing revenue, forecasts, and annual reviews.
• Liaise with suppliers to deliver best-in-class campaigns, ensuring high standards and adherence to SLAs.
• Lead insert planning accounts, overseeing yearly schedules, KPIs, and spend with the support of a senior planner.
• Source and build relationships with brands for campaigns and projects, including new leads and historical contacts.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness, understanding project profitability, and managing budgets efficiently.
• Manage project administration tasks such as supplier setups, billing, invoicing, and ensuring accurate project delivery.
• Prepare presentations for client and supplier meetings, travelling to client meetings and project sites as required.

Benefits

• Enhanced annual leave entitlement
• Access to our prestige benefits and rewards portal
• Long service rewards
• Health cash plan
• Life assurance scheme
• Career development opportunities
• Access to a well-established Employee Assistance Programme provider

Additional Information

This Campaign Strategist role operates Monday to Friday with hybrid working opportunities, though flexibility with working hours is essential as some projects or meetings may take place outside of core hours.

Essential Skills

• A team player who can work autonomously when required
• Meticulous attention to detail, very organised, and strong negotiation skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, great on the phone, face-to-face and via email
• Knowledge of MS Office
• Ability to learn quickly, think on one's feet, respond positively to change
• Ability to easily switch between project management and client-facing tasks with a good attitude towards problem-solving and finding solutions

Desirable Skills

• A knowledge of the FMCG, health, beauty, and fashion industries and its customers
• Prior marketing agency experience would be beneficial
• Confidence to identify and scope new opportunities to drive increased revenue to the department
• Full, clean driving licence
• An interest in social media
• 2+ years of relevant experience OR have recently graduated in a relevant field

About Company

Relish, part of the Whistl Group, is a fast-paced, ever-growing product sampling agency specialising mainly in the beauty and FMCG sectors. Making product sampling work in the digital age demands a wide range of skills. Our team's many talents cover brand partnerships, marketing strategy, project management, social media, print, and fulfilment. We've conducted campaigns all over the UK, as well as in Ireland, France, the USA, and Australia.

With clients such as L'Oréal, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Estée Lauder, and P&G, every campaign is different and unique to each individual brand's needs. We work closely with brand marketing teams to ensure that not only do we match them to the right partners to access their target consumers, but we also offer insight-driven results.

We believe passionately that happy people produce the best work and have consistently achieved over 80 on our ENPS (employee net promoter score).