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Marketing Executive – Channel

Internal Title: Channel Marketer

Contact: Mike Friend

July 2025

Marketing Executive – Channel

Internal title: Channel Marketer

Reporting to: Chapter Lead – Retail Experience

As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark’s purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses. 

We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand. 

Working within the Consumer & SME Marketing Tribe, we're after a Marketing Executive, who is a few years into their career and is looking for an exciting next step. You’ll come with a passion for customers, retail experience, creativity and innovation, and are keen on delivering world class work. Read below to see if you're the right fit.

What the day to day looks like:

-        Collaborates with a wide range of internal & external stakeholders, managing their expectations.

-        Responsible for planning, developing and delivering marketing campaigns, activated across a range of owned, paid and partner channels.

-        Works closely with agencies and various internal teams to take campaigns to market.

-        Responsible for putting together recommendations that deliver to sales and marketing objectives.

-        Supports with bringing our products and propositions to life in our physical and digital environments.

-        Responsible for budget management, recommendations and execution.

-        Develops marketing tactics, supporting with campaigns and projects from start to finish.

-        Conducts market research, analyses customer insights and campaign performance to identify trends, preferences, and opportunities for optimisation and improvement.

-        Supports the launch of new retail channels including project managing marketing deliverables for retail fit-out/stand requirements.

-        Leads and supports with store activations or special projects.

-        Experiments with AI to create more efficient and effective ways of working.

What are we looking for?

-        Bachelors degree in marketing/communications (or a related field).

-        2+ years experience in marketing (agency or client side).

-        Excellent stakeholder management skills.

-        Great presentation and communication skills.

-        Growth mindset and roll-up-the sleeves attitude.

-        Solid understanding of retail environments, customer behavior, and customer experience optimisation.

-        Strong understanding of digital platforms (media, web, data), measurement and experience working with digital specialists.

-        Strong administrative skills.

-        Able to work autonomously.

Why choose us: 

Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai 

At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture.  Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be “how things are done at Spark”, embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices.  We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability. 

Sustainability: Toitū  

Sustainability is a key focus for us.  We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand’s recovery and economic transformation.  The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion. 

Benefits: Awhina 

 Our people matter and we make sure we look after them.  As a valued employee of Spark, we’ve got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including: 

• Wellbeing - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection.  Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme. 
• Hybrid ways of working - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible. 
• Leave - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.  
• Spark Credit – we provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products. 
• Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme. 
• Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.  
  
  

Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa (with at least 18 months remaining).