Retail Marketing Executive - 12 month FTC

Retail Marketing Executive – 12 month FTC

Marketing Vacancy type: Temporary

Closing date: 23/06/2025

Salary: £37,465

About the role

The role holder will play a key role in the Communications team at Edinburgh Airport, developing and managing campaigns and implementing the airport marketing plan. The person will also work closely with the Commercial team supporting them through the delivery of tactical marketing campaigns and business development supporting activity. The person will also play an active role in supporting the Head of Marketing and Head of Corporate Affairs to plan and manage key marketing communications across airport channels to help promote the Airport’s retail proposition.

About the Recruitment Process

The recruitment process for this role will be comprised of two stages. The 1st interview will be held over Teams, to discuss your experience and motivations in applying for the role with our Head of Marketing and Retail & Property Marketing Manager. The 2nd interview will be an in person, competency based interview, and we will ask you to prepare a short presentation, followed by questions. You can find out more about our interview structure and some questions we might ask here.

What you’ll be doing

• Management and delivery of the retail marketing calendar and assisting on key projects and retail launches
• Work with the Retail Operations team to create and implement tactical plans to support retail performance and to meet budgets, from briefing process to instalment
• Supporting the Property team in the development of strong product propositions
• Liaising with various marketing and print agencies in the development of the above and ensuring cost effectiveness and efficiencies are achieved
• Working with the Head of Marketing in the ongoing development of the annual marketing plan
• Supporting the wider Communications team with the creation of commercial content for airport channels (social media, email, digital sites, staff communications)
• Working with an external design agency to develop and adapt key marketing campaign themes and messages.
• Drive pre-awareness of the airport offering and introduce ways to succeed in driving passenger conversion on terminal
• Develop creative and bespoke ways to drive sales increase and push services offered
• Work in collaboration with Commercial teams (Property, Digital, Commercial Services) to evolve commercial product and service offerings that can be marketed to internal and external customers

What we’re looking for

To apply for this role, you’ll need

• Experience of managing projects from conception through to execution
• A business or marketing degree, or equivalent, is desired, or appropriate work experience with an interest in consumer behaviour and commercial results
• Forward thinking and pro-active with ability to integrate themselves in to a small team but also adapt themselves to engage with multiple parties internally and externally to the organisation
• Energetic, ambitious and inquisitive; continually seeking how to improve EAL’s creativeness, effectiveness or efficiency.
• Flexibility and resilience – the pace of the business means a proactive, can do attitude is essential in order to deliver effectively on time and on message.

If your experience looks slightly different to what we’ve listed here, we encourage you to still apply. You could add something we didn’t know we needed

What we’ll offer you

• Pension scheme- employer contributions can be up to 7%
• 32 days holiday, based on full time roles, increasing with service
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Supporting your health and wellbeing- private healthcare after 1 years’ service, access to our Employee Assistance Programme and occupational health services
• Free car parking on site and when you go on holiday

We offer a range of other benefits, find out more here

Why EDI?

We are Edinburgh Airport, where Scotland meets the world. The success of the airport comes down to our people, and you can help us deliver even more big days for our passengers and colleagues. The development of your career is important to us, and we’ll support and encourage this every step of the way. As a business we’re driven by our values – they’re at the core of our culture and everything we do. We’re looking for people who will demonstrate these values day-in, day-out.

So if this sounds like you, apply now and get ready for your career to take off.

Building a diverse workforce that is inclusive and accessible to all is a priority for our business. As part of this journey, we are proud to be the first UK airport to be endorsed by WORK180. They only recognise great employers for all women. Find out about our policies on our WORK180 employer page.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring applicants with a disability can participate fully in our recruitment process. Please let us know in your application form if you require any adjustments, such as parking arrangements or alternative methods of communication.