Head of Marketing

You’ll be a highly experienced, creative marketeer with a proven track record leading successful marketing initiatives for a consumer brand, both within the UK and across global territories. You’ll have strong management and leadership capabilities and be able lead a team that together develops compelling stories and supporting assets, and expertly weaves them through the customer journey to inspire, educate, convert and retain the customers.

You are the customer champion, always putting them at the heart of everything you do. You’ll develop a deep understanding of our customer and what makes them tick, using profiling, feedback and analytics. You’ll use this insight to develop successful marketing campaigns and to deliver world class marketing collateral that meet the commercial objectives.

You’ll be brimming with ideas to continue to improve what we do and how we do it, helping stay ahead of the competition. You’ll be computer literate and super organised with excellent time management skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines. You’ll be a self-starter, able to work both independently and collaboratively with others.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Translate the brand vision into a strong and compelling brand story, that resonates with our customers, drives awareness and builds brand loyalty.
• Be the go-to brand champion within the business, always ensuring we have our target (global and local) customer in mind when planning any activity.
• Understand and monitor market trends and competitor activity, and the impact on our business and customer.
• Use existing and new research to understand our customer and what makes them tick, using this insight to develop messaging to drive them to action.
• Develop an annual marketing plan which delivers high quality and effective marketing materials and campaigns that bring the brand to life, whilst delivering against our strategic objectives and ensuring consistency across the globe.
• Work closely with the Ecommerce team to align the global marketing calendar and contribute to content creation and distribution across our owned and earned channels to drive brand awareness and traffic in all channels.
• Work collaboratively with the Design and Production teams on product development ideas to support key marketing initiatives.
• Develop individual country or regional marketing plans, demonstrating an awareness of cultural difference where applicable, ensuring brand KPI's are clear for each marketing program and are monitored and assessed for ROI, retention, growth and brand awareness, etc.
• Develop and deliver effective trade marketing materials to ensure trade partners are well supported when representing our brand.
• Develop a strong social media strategy to build engagement across our social media channels, ensuring activity is always on-brand, and supportive of our overall brand story.
• Define and implement our influencer plan, building and retaining strong relationships to secure ongoing coverage.
• Establish new and strengthen existing brand partnership with like-minded brands to extend our reach and build awareness.
• Lead PR activity, managing our reputation in the media, defining and placing key messages to increase organic coverage and raising our brand profile and overall awareness in key regions
• Manage the application of our brand identity by delivering materials on time in full, and ensuring our brand guidelines, templates and other supporting resources (marketing collateral, training documents, etc) are fit for purpose and drive our consumer and commercial objectives.
• Manage workflow within the creative team and external providers, ensuring that tasks are prioritised effectively and delivered on time and on budget.
• You will own the budgets across Brand, Social, PR and Partnerships and be responsible for monitoring these on a regular basis to ensure they remain on track.

Essential skills

• A minimum of 5 years experience at a similar level within an ecommerce led consumer brand
• Highly experienced in delivering a global brand strategy, creating assets and weaving together campaigns to create brand engagement and drive customer acquisition and retention through PR, email, social media and other communication channels.
• Creative and innovative thinker and 'out of the box’ problem solver.
• Ability to balance commerciality with a creative and entrepreneurial flair.
• Expert knowledge of brand marketing techniques, tools and platforms.
• Excellent communicator in the spoken and written word, with the ability to build rapport and credibility across internal and external teams at all levels.
• Well-organised, logical and efficient, with strong budgeting and project management skills
• Strong leadership and management experience, working with marketing teams and external partners across Creative, PR, Social media and Content.
• A keen eye for detail and high standards of execution.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Word, MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience working across a number of international territories would be advantageous