Commercial Coordinator

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience. 

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why… 

You’ll receive a competitive salary, company car, generous bonus, pension contribution as well as: 

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career.  

• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount. 

• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter! 

• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank. 

• Refer a friend – if you follow our refer a friend scheme and your referral is successfully hired, you will receive a generous bonus! 

• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens. 

• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more… 

Our Brewing & Brands team are seeking a Commercial Coordinator to join the team and support our Head of Buying and Commercial Manager in ensuring activity across our Value for Venues, Digital and Telesales areas is prepared, delivered and tracked efficiently. The ambition for this role is to provide structured coordination support that allows the Commercial Manager to focus on supplier engagement activities. 

Working from our Bury St Edmunds office (50% hybrid working), this full time, permanent role offers a busy and varied workload with genuine career progression opportunities within either the Commercial team or wider Greene King business. 

Responsibilities

• Support the Commercial Manager in the delivery of the annual promotion calendar for the on-trade channel for foreign brands across digital, telesales and sales teams
• Track discretionary spend across sales teams for POS & glassware against budgets
• Collate & track promotional activities ensuring alignment of all submissions & corresponding artwork with organisational strategy, category focus and products listed 
• Produce scope, pricing & target lists for promotions
• Support the Commercial Manager in coordinating with Digital, Telesales, Sales & Internal teams to ensure promotions are loaded correctly and run on time in full
• Monitor promotional activity on an ongoing basis including loading stockrooms, producing delivery reports, actioning, and responding to customer support issues raised through the Sales Support Log, liaising with central teams to ensure deals are amended / paused and communicated appropriately
• Tracking & reporting of promotional effectiveness providing insight & recommendations to assist Commercial Manager in maximising ROI for Greene King & our suppliers

Required Skills and Experience

To be successful in this role, you will have have previous coordination experience, a commercial mindset and intermediate Excel skills (formatting, VLOOKUP, visualisation). Knowledge of experience of the on trade drinks industry would be beneficial but isn't essential. As important as your experience is the ability to demonstrate the following skills:

• A can do attitude, looking to make a big impact in the business
• Strong communication and team working skills with the ability to work effectively with both internal and external stakeholders
• Good at planning & seeing tasks through to the end, independently solving problems as they arise

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