Marketing Manager

Wallace Hind Selection LTD; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job description

As a Marketing Manager, connecting people, products, and markets is your forte. Predominantly based in Wellingborough, in this Marketing Manager role you will drive activity forward for the UK and Europe, as well as collaborating with the wider global group. Our industrial components are integral to the telecoms, automotive and aerospace industries!

BASIC SALARY: Up to £45,000

BENEFITS:

1. Annual profit share
2. 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
3. Pension contributions

LOCATION: This is a hybrid role - you must be commutable to our office in Wellingborough 3 or 4 days a week.

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Wellingborough, Northampton, Kettering, Rugby, Bedford, Luton, Corby, Market Harborough, Daventry, Raunds

JOB DESCRIPTION: Reporting to the Managing Director and working closely with the Global Group Marketing function (based in America and Canada), you will help craft and develop group level initiatives, supporting both distribution sales effort and direct OEM business, which will facilitate the next push for growth.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Supporting sales growth: identifying and developing plans to access new business.
2. Product management: in liaison with the Managing Director and the Global Marketing Team, you will oversee the portfolio's full life cycle, including NPD and product optimisation to include pricing.
3. Collaboration with the Group Marketing Function: ensuring marketing statistics are shared as well as assisting the European sales force with new marketing collateral and leads for new and existing business channels.
4. Planning and attending exhibitions: producing all material, stands and collateral for UK and European exhibitions. (The cost of these exhibitions ranges from £5,000 - £100,000)
5. Creating content: both digital and traditional print for advertising campaigns.

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

You'll have operated with a commercial mindset and be able to integrate, confidently, with other functions across our business. You'll be able to demonstrate how you have previously developed product life cycles and previous marketing strategies and how the success of these campaigns impacted product awareness.

You will:

1. Have previously worked within a manufacturing business, marketing industrial products.
2. Have experience working with distribution partners.
3. Have a proven track record of working solo, and being the central Marketing expert.
4. Ideally, have experience working as part of a global team.

THE COMPANY:

As an established business we have consistently developed through performance, organic growth and acquisition. We have established ourselves as a world leader in the supply of interconnect products used in electronic applications. With enviable manufacturing and production capabilities in Asia, we are premier suppliers to major organisations within a wide range of industries.

It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Marketing Manager, Head of Marketing, Channel Marketing Manager, Product Specialist, Product Manager, Market Research Manager, Marketing Communications Manager, Technical Marketing Manager, Category Manager - Manufacturing, B2B Distribution, Physical Technical Products, electrical or electronic products, components, PCB, engineering.

INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.

Wallace Hind Selection, alongside our client, embrace diversity, champion equality, and foster inclusion to create a work environment where everyone belongs and thrives.

Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.

REF: SM18079, Wallace Hind Selection