Junior Marketing Brand Assistant
Cypress, California (Hybrid)
This is a one-year fixed-term contract, with the potential for permanent placement within Pentland Brands.
Pentland Group has nearly a 100-years history of pioneering, innovating products and brands. The Company has a rich and remarkable history, of family, of ambition and of innovation, of leading from the front with a legacy of outstanding brands and equally outstanding people. Of pioneering brands that make life better. Brands that create an emotional connection with our consumers and help keep people on the move. Brands that do good, that form part of a positive business that acts for people and planet.
Within Pentland Group sits Pentland Brands; a global business touching the lives of millions through some of the world’s most-loved active and footwear brands. Including Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury of New Zealand, Endura, Mitre, Ellesse, KangaROOS and Red or Dead.
Design Pool
Started over twenty years ago, it has nurtured more than 200 young creatives from across four continents – giving them a launch pad into various creative careers.
Design Pool helps young graduates develop their talents and understand how to apply them through live projects. It's about preparing young talent for their future in a dynamic and supportive environment.
Design Pool is a place to build and broaden professional networks. The role is designed to harness talent and use it to be an additional resource to work alongside existing brand design teams, providing stimulation and an extra resource for a design team when needed.
The position is a one-year contract.
The aim is always for members of Design Pool to be offered a permanent role within Pentland Brands.
The Roles Mission
We are looking for a dynamic motivated, highly organized individual with a real passion for marketing & creating content. We want to tell beautiful stories about our brilliant brands, stories that bridge between creative communications and creative selling. You’ll have an innate knowledge of the key platforms and coupled with a passion for our brands, ensuring that they come to life across all touchpoints in ways that surprise and delight consumers, making our products irresistible and are utterly consistent.
Perhaps most importantly, you will be part of building a global culture of curiosity, craft, and creative energy.
The role you’d play:
- Full marketing support across all departmental areas: Commercial partners, PR, Social, Product and Brand.
- Support social media influencer, ambassador and athlete product seeding around key product initiatives and launches ensuring the full seeding process is managed, content is approved and aligns with launch goals.
- Event support: Assist in planning, promotion and executing events. Act as key onsite support staff ensuring proper setup and onsite event plan execution.
- Ensure marketing tool kits and guidelines are regularly updated and shared with all relevant partners and agencies.
- Support in all aspects of campaign pre-production, working closely with marketing team to deliver seasonal campaigns.
- Global asset management – ensuring all global assets are named and issued to partners in a timely manner.
- Work closely with PR and Sport agencies to execute marketing initiatives and events.
- Assist Brand Manager with briefing seasonal marketing and PR materials and oversee their development to ensure timely delivery.
- Order, track and manage seasonal samples.
- Monitor competitors’ landscape and industry trends.
- Analyze and evaluate campaign results.
- Provide essential administrative support such as invoice tracking.
What you will bring:
- Passionate about our brands across fashion/sportswear/lifestyle or marketing.
- Ability to tell compelling stories through content that is highly shareable.
- Understanding and experience creating social media content, in line with brand guidelines and reactive to cultural trends
- Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Computer literate.
- Ability to take initiative, take ownership of tasks and work collaboratively with wider team and agencies.
- Organized and efficient.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Adaptable and resourceful.
- Strong understanding of customer needs.
Candidate Profile:
- A digital / social first thinker who is full of ideas.
- Creatively curious, obsessed with culture.
- Not afraid of hard work. Full of fun.
- Experience of creating multi-channel content with particular emphasis on digital, including websites, and social.
- Strong team player, low in ego with natural collaborative leadership style. Not afraid to challenge.
- Organized, with strong attention to detail and able to manage your time well
- Effective negotiator and communicator.
- Calm under pressure; resilient and positive in difficult situations. Motivated by operating in a changing, flexible environment.
- Naturally innovative and always curious, able to see the bigger picture and drive transformation.
- Strong creative eye and ‘taste’ level.
- Intuitively relates to Pentland Brands’ values.
Pay Range: $63,000 - $67,000 annually
Base pay is a portion of our total compensation package and determined within a range that allows growth and development within your role. Your base pay will be determined based on experience, skills and qualifications.
Pentland Brands and Speedo are equal opportunity employers and considers all applicants for employment on the basis of their individual capabilities and qualifications, consistent with applicable law and without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, we have a strong corporate commitment to inclusion, diversity and to ensuring that all current and future associates are compensated solely on job-related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential. To achieve these goals, applicants are asked not to disclose salary history information.
