Marketing Planning & Production Manager

About us: We are one of the top three automotive retailers in the UK, proudly representing 32 manufacturer brands, selling a huge range of new and used vehicles from over 150 dealerships across the UK and Ireland.  

We believe our people are our greatest asset, and we’re committed to recognising the valuable contribution each person makes. That’s why we continue to invest in a leading rewards and benefits package designed to support your career, wellbeing, and life outside of work.

Marketing Planning & Production Manager

Location: Remote (Travel may be required)
Salary: £40,000 + Excellent Benefits
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Build the future of marketing operations with us

We are looking for a Marketing Planning & Production Manager to join Lookers! Reporting directly to the Head of Marketing Operations, this is a pivotal new role that will help shape how our marketing team plans, produces, and delivers work across the business.

This is a rare opportunity to join at the beginning of an exciting transformation. Rather than inheriting established processes, you'll play a key role in creating them. You'll bring structure, visibility, and consistency to our marketing operations while leading planning and production activities that ensure creative and content delivery is aligned to business priorities.

As a senior member of the team, you will also deputise for the Head of Marketing Operations when required, providing leadership, direction, and support across the wider function.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and run the team's planning cadence, including quarterly, monthly and weekly planning cycles, ensuring priorities, capacity and deadlines are visible and aligned.
• Translate marketing strategy into clear priorities, actionable plans and defined workstreams.
• Manage production across creative and content teams, ensuring work is delivered on time, to a high standard and in line with business objectives.
• Track progress, identify risks, remove blockers and maintain momentum across multiple projects.
• Oversee workflow management, resource planning and team capacity.
• Establish and continuously improve processes, tools and reporting that create efficiency and consistency from brief through to delivery.
• Own our relationship with key workflow and asset management platforms, evolving the tech and integration into the wider Marketing team.
• Partner with stakeholders across marketing and the wider business to manage demand, align expectations and balance competing priorities.
• Produce regular reporting on output, performance, planning and resourcing for the Head of Marketing Operations and Marketing Leadership Team.
• Act as deputy for the Head of Marketing Operations when required.

About You

We're looking for a highly organised and commercially minded marketing professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys bringing clarity and structure to complex challenges.

You will have:

• Proven experience within marketing operations, planning, project management, production management or a similar planning-focused role.
• A strong track record of managing end-to-end delivery across creative and content workstreams.
• Experience leading planning processes and providing clear direction to teams.
• Excellent organisational, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong project management capabilities with exceptional attention to detail.
• The ability to influence, collaborate and build relationships at all levels.
• Confidence working within a growing and evolving function, helping to shape new ways of working.

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to help build and shape a newly established function at a crucial stage of its development.

Working closely with the Head of Marketing Operations and our Creative leadership, you'll have genuine influence over how marketing plans and delivers work across the business. You'll be empowered to design processes, improve ways of working and drive operational excellence across every creative and content output we produce.

You'll lead a team of Digital Content Executives, work with stakeholders across the wider business, and play a key role in the continued evolution of the Marketing Operations function.

If you're passionate about planning, delivery and creating the foundations for high-performing teams, we'd love to hear from you.

Core Benefits:

• Competitive salaries with structured pay scales and progression as you grow within the business
• Generous annual leave that increases with your length of service
• Enhanced family leave, including 6 months’ full pay for maternity and adoption leave, and 2 weeks’ full pay for paternity leave
• Access to Techscheme for discounted technology purchases with flexible payments

Health & Wellbeing:

• Eyecare vouchers to help cover vision care needs
• Smart Health – 24/7 access to GP services to support your mental and physical wellbeing
• Dental insurance for everyday dental care and unexpected treatments
• Optional critical illness cover for peace of mind during life's most challenging moments

Financial Wellbeing:

• MyView PayNow – access a portion of your pay as you earn, with features to stream, save, and track your money through a user-friendly app
• Free will writing services to help plan for the future
• Flexible life assurance options and partner life assurance for added protection

Leisure & Lifestyle:

• Discounted gym memberships to support an active lifestyle
• Travel insurance to help you explore with confidence
• Access to home and technology vouchers
• bYond card and a wide range of exclusive retail and lifestyle discounts

We strongly believe in nurturing and providing our people with specific manufacturer brand and management training to enhance career development opportunities. We have a great bunch of people, and we like to celebrate and encourage success at all levels.

Lookers and Charles Hurst are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to a working environment that is free from discrimination, is inclusive, and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential. 

If your application is successful, we will conduct relevant employment checks prior to you commencing employment with us. These will include verifying your recent employment, address, credit history and a standard criminal record check. For roles that require you to drive, a driving licence check will also be carried out. Please note, all offers of employment are made subject to a 6 month probation period commencing from your start date.

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