Head of Marketing

Head of Marketing
£65k - £75k
Full Time
Manchester City Centre (Hybrid)

Working with exciting brands across the entertainment sector, you'll be supporting the development of the overall marketing strategy, with a view to driving growth for your brand through excellent marketing execution.

If you have a strong, hands-on, performance marketing background, with a real appreciation of how all areas of marketing interlink for a successful multi-channel approach, this role will offer you the perfect blend between marketing strategy, multi-channel marketing deliverability, campaign analysis, and cross-department relationship building and stakeholder management.

All within an exciting growth sector that rewards creativity and a strong customer experience.

The Job...

Reporting into the Regional Head of Marketing, you'll be working closely with the Producer and Commercial Manager across 2 hyper growth brands to bring your marketing strategies to life.

Supported by a squad of specialists across disciplines including social media & content, retention & loyalty, VIP marketing, conversion optimisation, SEO, affiliates, and more, it'll be on you to develop the overall marketing strategy and driving growth and marketing performance.

You'll be responsible for:

• Partnering closely with shared services such as acquisition, to execute across their paid, earned and owned channels.
• Leading the development and execution of an integrated marketing plan to deliver against commercial priorities.
• Continually optimising performance across the marketing mix and delivering insights and opportunities to the commercial lead and working closely with the commercial team to define priorities and assist with specific go-to-market activities.
• Creating and controlling the brand’s marketing budget with effective and accurate forecasting and spend.
• Evaluating marketing activities to track the effectiveness of each investment.
• Monitoring KPIs, verifying against market trends, and suggesting pivots to strategies when needed.
• Ensuring a high quality and a 360-approach in execution of marketing plans and communicating the brand’s vision and mission across all channels.
• Aligning with agencies when needed (PR, Advertising, Creative, Media).
• Modelling behaviours, regularly leveraging marketing insights data to inform marketing planning and optimisation opportunities.
• Partnering with Marketing Operations to ensure all marketing execution is properly set up in systems and tools for tracking / reporting.
• Leading the brand stewardship, ensuring legal compliance and adhering to brand standards in all executions.

About You...

You'll be a high performing all-round marketer, with particular success across performance marketing. You'll be at home in a fast-paced environment, spinning plenty of plates at the same time.

Here's some of the key experience you'll need to demonstrate:

• 3-5 years of marketing experience in a similar "Head of" role.
• Minimum 1-2 years experience in brand management.
• Comfortable with high-level, strategic thinking, and hands-on implementation, with close attention to detail.
• Experienced within a highly commercial environment, with a deep understanding of growth metrics and KPIs, and strong instincts for where the greatest gains, at the fastest speed, can be made.
• Budget management experience with strong analytical skills, financial skills and P&L understanding.
• Capability to analyse data, drawing conclusions to provide key insights and action plans.
• Highly organised with keen prioritisation skills to effectively manage marketing activity roadmaps.
• Strong negotiation skills and experience with vendor management.
• Experience in both traditional and digital advertising.
• A keen understanding of social media and community management.
• Excellent relationship building and influencing skills.

The Company...

This is a digital marketing business enjoying hyper-growth at the moment. They are experts within the entertainment arenas. The Head of Marketing position is a key role within the business, and you'll have the chance to work within teams and on the types of brand projects you won't be able to anywhere else.

They also have a track record of promoting from within, so as more brands come online, more opportunities for promotion prospects will naturally appear.

In addition to an attractive salary of £65k-£75k DOE, the company also provides flexible hybrid/remote working, along with exciting future prospects.

Some additional benefits include;

• Private health cover
• Death in service benefit
• Pension
• Various discounted products and services

Want To Apply?

We're interviewing and shortlisting for this role right now, and expecting to get suitable candidates in for interview quickly. If you're interested, please apply with your up-to-date CV today.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £65,000.00-£75,000.00 per year