Marketing Director

Marketing Director

Progressing to General Manager – Marketing

SALARY PACKAGE: circa £114,000 – £150,000 (including bonus)

BENEFITS: Company Car/Allowance, Life Insurance, Private Medical, Pension, 25 days holiday, parking onsite

M4/A4 corridor – Hayes/Uxbridge, Middlesex

A marketing entrepreneur is required to lead an experienced marketing team of approx. 20 staff across Europe servicing EMEA for a leading IT hardware manufacturer.

The role will evolve into General Manager of Marketing – 2nd in command to VP, being a good sounding board, confident, able to empower their team, instil confidence in their staff, by guiding and developing. A true digital marketer, with knowledge of the latest technology trends, e-commerce and strong content/digital background, the Marketing Director will lead the marketing team into new digital areas to expand their marketing focus.

Working closely with the VP and General Managers & Directors the Marketing Director (GM-Marketing) will create a Marketing Strategy across Europe to deliver an increase in sales across EMEA, leading their team, meeting the changing needs of different markets, developing partnerships with external organisations.

Essential Requirements:

* Proven track record in Senior Marketing roles, demonstrable evidence of producing strong results on an international basis in B2B environment.
* Excellent people management and interpersonal skills; previous man management experience of leading experienced diverse teams across Europe.
* Strong e-commerce and digital experience including A/B testing, google analytics, understanding and demonstration of latest marketing techniques and trends.
* Strong channel marketing (1-2 tier) skills
* Must understand and acknowledge different cultures able to work across EMEA, cross-functional team environment.
* Strong customer / partner relationship management skills.
* Desire to make a difference and thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment.
* Able to make senior level decisions in the absence of VP and stand by decisions.
* IT Skills: Strong analysis and numeracy skills (intermediate Excel) with proven ability to maximise ROI from a substantial marketing budget, Salesfusion / Salesforce experience.
* Willing to travel as required. (30%)
* Second language fluency (preferably German, Spanish, Italian or French) are a distinct advantage, or experience of living overseas.
* Educated to degree level or equivalent or CIM / MBA
* Some experience of B2C Marketing would be advantageous

Working closely with your 4 direct reports as well as other Directors you will lead the marketing team of 20 staff to ensure there are briefed on marketing strategy, and are involved, developing local country sales and marketing plans appropriate to win and support the business.

The role will need a strong leader, to manage, develop and empower the team, ensuring that you have a clear career development strategy for your team & succession plan. The Marketing Director will monitor sales out, using market share data for each region/country to report on marketing KPI’s and promotes the development of new marketing collateral, especially in the digital field to increase brand awareness and positioning.

The benefits of working for this company is that they have a strong, experienced marketing team, a fantastic product with majority of market share, substantial marketing budget, with good tools and investment which will help the Marketing Director to have an impact. There are good benefits, opportunity to step up quickly into the GM role once respect, confidence and company knowledge have been gained.