Assistant Marketing Manager (13 Months FTC)
| Posting date: | 21 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 December 2025 |
| Location: | Croydon, CR0 2EU |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75769500 |
Summary
Join Superdrug Head Office- Make a Real Difference Every Day!
Location: 51 Sydenham Road, Croydon, CR0 2EU
Hours: 37.5 | 9.00am - 5.30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
Salary: Competitive
Why Superdrug?
Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.
Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.
Here's the exciting
bit… A day includes:
Role Purpose:
Are you obsessed with health and beauty, and anything in between? This role
supports the Marketing for Superdrug’s own Healthcare Services. You may also be
handling other tactical or special retail health projects that help to
strengthen the overall Superdrug Health offering.
A typical day in this role includes:
Passionate about health? Now is the time to make your mark – join our
Healthcare Services marketing team at a time when health is front of mind for
the nation and the UK’s highstreets. Superdrug offers multiple accessible,
online and in-store health services and solutions, from 80+ Health Clinics and
200 nearly pharmacies, to a multi-million turnover Online Doctor Service, Video
GP and even a newly re-branded portfolio of Aesthetics Clinics!
As part of a close-knit team, our mission is to drive greater awareness and
visibility of our competitive offering as whole, and on an individual service
level. Joining this team gives you the opportunity to make a real, positive
difference to the ‘green side’ of Superdrug, and to have visibility across the
company with the interesting work you’ll be owning, as we grow Superdrug Health
as part of a unified business mission.
You will be working with your manager, and in time, independently with
stakeholders, to help shape the brand marketing support and campaign strategies
for healthcare services brands across different categories and channels. You’ll
need to be a dab hand at creating assets, guidelines and making sure this comes
to life correctly in each customer-facing touchpoint. You will be working with
the wider internal marketing teams, insights teams and design agencies,
creating assets to drive the awareness of online and in-store health services,
ranging from POS, CRM, web content and social strategies to increase share of
voice across our owned channels.
Your key focusses will be to drive and coordinate POS materials in line with
Superdrug’s wider event plans, and fully own our social assets and social
campaigns, ensuring best in class creative is maintained. We often use
influencers or our own staff members to help create new social content, so a
passion for social trends and awareness of process would be helpful.
Being adaptable is key; and quick-thinking to support broader Healthcare
projects that may be more reactional/ adhoc, in support of strengthening overall
Superdrug health offer. Select and apply appropriate primary and secondary
research methods including survey tools and desktop research, to gather
marketing insight or evaluation, and help to inform marketing decisions, with
meticulous planning and delivery.
Alongside keeping projects moving at pace, you’ll need to be a natural at
maintaining effective day to day relationships and communication between the
marketing function and internal and external stakeholders to support marketing
activities. This role requires someone to be a natural communicator, supporting
our Buyers, Suppliers, Agencies and colleagues in stores; You will also
work with the Marketing Manager, Own Brand marketing and Healthcare Service
teams to understand what opportunities within commercial and marketing are
needed for priority projects.
Your manager will help you to own marketing activities independently through
key project delivery, alongside typical BAU administrative tasks in support to
the wider team role.
This job is a good fit for you if you have:
• Great Project Management - planning and organisation skills
• Good grasp of health care marketing processes; particularly
health advertising regulations
• Passion for building brands and campaigns
• Excellent attention to detail, good creative steer and opinions
• Excellent communication skills: written and verbal, including PPT
presentations
• Problem solving skills, willing to flex to get the task done
right
• Confident and energetic personality, a thirst for knowledge
• Good understanding, love and enjoy the fast-paced retail
environment
• You enjoy all things healthcare, have a good understanding of
the industry and can handle working in a stringent
environment
What you’ll need:
A love for the Superdrug brand
Excellent attention to detail
An interest in the health industry, understanding of health retailers
Good collaboration skills and stakeholder management experience
Ability to influence stakeholders and comfortable making decisions
A degree in marketing or 1-2 years relevant experience
Creativity and an eye for good design
A good understanding of the core principles of print and digital advertising
Great working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Powerpoint and basic Excel
especially
Here's what's in it for you:
- 33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
- 2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
- 30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
- Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
- Company pension matching and bonus
- We offer Stream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- Being part of more! We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
- We are part of A.S. Watson Group, the world's largest international health and beauty retailer with over 15,700 stores in 25 markets!
- Unrivalled Learning and Development programmes
- Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support
- Come and be part of something special!
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