Commercial Administrator

Commercial Administrator

Full Time 39 Hours

Permanent

Hybrid working (Head Office Windermere – minimum 3 day per week)

About The Role

In this role you’ll be responsible for coordinating the logistics of all product samples and product details required for all marketing activity including photo shoots and filming.  It’s your job to ensure the correct samples get to the right place at the right time.

Reporting into the Brand Development & Campaign Manager, this is a cross-functional and

external-facing role liaising across the Marketing, Buying and Merchandising teams as well as dealing directly with third party suppliers to support the coordination of a profitable annual calendar of marketing activity.

You’ll work closely with the buying and merchandising teams to make sure the marketing department has timely access to all of the right products including newness to support all marketing activity.  

You’ll also work closely with the marketing team to supply all product requirements to support prize draws and other product related marketing initiatives

About You

You’ll be extremely well organised and deadline driven, with the ability to plan and juggle multiple concurrent timelines.  You’ll need to have excellent communication skills to coordinate with cross functional colleagues and you’ll need to be able to influence others around a common purpose.

You’ll be confident and not phased by dealing with external suppliers and Lakeland people at all levels of the business.

You’ll need to be a strong self-starter; solution oriented and have a can do attitude.

It’s important you’re a team player, able to collaborate with others whilst positively challenging and welcoming feedback to drive self improvement.

Ideally you’ll be proficient with Excel to make sure all product sample movements are effectively tracked in and out of the business.

Essential Experience

Essential experience

• Experience of working in a coordination or planning function, preferably B2C and ideally in a multichannel business with a significant online presence.
• Good computer literacy - Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Experience Ideal Not Essential

• Project management
• Bespoke software solutions
• Marketing and/or Buying & Merchandising experience

About Lakeland

Founded in the early 60s, with the same strong values of quality and customer care now as when we first started. From selling plastic bags for home freezing from the Rayner family garage in Windermere, to over 4000 kitchen and home products today, Lakeland has grown to the extent that we now send out thousands of parcels a day from our Kendal despatch centre, and we have stores nationwide, stretching from Aberdeen to Exeter, with more in the pipeline.

Benefits

There are many benefits to being part of the Lakeland team. Other than being part of a huge and happy working family, our colleagues are rewarded with a competitive salary and a group personal pension plan.

There are 29 days’ paid holiday (including bank holidays) and generous discounts on our products.

We offer a great retail environment, and the chance to be part of a team who like to work and socialise together.