Marketing Manager

Salary: £30,000 – £42,000 per year

MARKETING MANAGER

Are you an experienced retail or product marketing specialist? We’re looking to expand our team here at Europe’s premier outdoor brand.

 An exclusive distributor; our rapid growth over the last 2 years requires a creative and commercial marketing manager to contribute to the next stage of market development.

We’re looking for a brand activation and product marketing expert to develop and deliver trade communications and best in class retail experiences via our retailers across Europe, to elevate and drive demand (sell through) for the brand.

The role:

The primary role of the Retail Marketing Manager is to build strong relationships with retailers to support and deliver marketing comms and sales. You’ll understand both consumer and shopper behaviour in our categories and use this insight to make our marketing communications even better and create shopper stopping activations to secure the best placement possible instore and online. Looking at how we can optimise our range across retail channels, you’ll be the key link up between our marketing strategy and our sales teams to land these initiatives.

The Candidate should have:

• Excellent knowledge of brand/retail activation, product marketing and campaign coordination
• Excellence in planning, attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders across a variety of small, medium and large retail partners.
• A good blend of commercial acumen and creativity to deliver shopper focused campaigns against set KPIs
• Knowledge of shopper design or visual merchandising best practice and preferred experience of using Adobe Creative Suite (photoshop, illustrator etc), planogram software or working with agencies to brief and deliver creative projects
• Experience with Netsuite and Mailchimp or similar sales and CRM software would be advantageous. 
• Excellent oral, written presentation and organisational skills
• A second European language would also be advantageous

Hours: Monday – Friday pm (40 hours per week)

Salary: Negotiable dependant upon experience, guide is £25-35k, plus discretionary annual bonus, company pension, holidays 22 days rising to 27 Days + statutory

Reporting to: Director of Marketing