Commercial Field Marketing Manager - Retail/Venue Marketing

Blue Pelican; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A thriving UK organization seeks a Commercial Field Marketing Manager to create and implement local marketing strategies across various sites. The role involves substantial travel, engaging with venue managers, and using creative solutions to drive family engagement. The ideal candidate should possess a marketing background, excellent communication skills, and be comfortable taking initiatives. A valid UK driving license is essential for this role, which promises variety and opportunities for fresh thinking.

Benefits

Car allowance

Benefits

Qualifications

• A full UK driving license is essential.
• Experience in field marketing or community engagement.
• Background in Retail Marketing or Marketing/Brand Activation.

Responsibilities

• Travel to various sites across the UK to promote marketing strategies.
• Collaborate with venue managers to enhance customer engagement.
• Project-manage marketing initiatives from central marketing team.

Skills

Field marketing experience

Retail marketing

Creative problem solving

Customer engagement

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Job description

Commercial Field Marketing Manager
Salary: Up to £50,000 base, plus £5k car allowance and benefits
Location: Principally will be travelling to different UK sites 2/3 days a week, 1 day from home and 1 day from a site based in Welwyn Garden City

Does require travel 2-3 days per week to visit sites around the country. So you do need to have a valid driving license.

This is a brand new role within a growing UK organisation centred around providing services to young families. It’s part of the marketing team, responsible for creating local marketing plans and strategies for each venue – these tactical local/regional marketing and activation campaigns will be multi‑channel in nature, and can include out of home, digital display media, direct response marketing, retail marketing and digital too - all with the principal focus of driving local brand awareness of the venue, which in turn generates new customer enquiries.

To be successful in this kind of role, you’ve got to be the kind of person who enjoys being out in the world, speaking with people, spotting patterns, joining the dots and giving local managers who run venues the kind of practical ideas that make a measurable difference to how they attract new customers – with practical, workable marketing toolkits they’re able to implement at a local level.

It is a rare mix. Field based. Creative. Commercial. And full of variety.

What you will be doing

You’ll spend a good chunk of your time visiting sites based around the UK – as far north as Shropshire, as south as London.

Sitting with managers of the venues. Understanding why enquiries are flowing or slowing. Figuring out what will help them attract more families. Turning interest into engagement, and engagement into bookings – taking things from ideas and project‑managing through a central marketing team, there to support through to implementation.

Some days it will be about improving visibility in the local area. Maybe that involves small scale creative campaigns – poster placements, partnerships with nearby employers or clever community outreach ideas that get people talking.

Other days might involve supporting open days and events. Helping managers find and organise specialist partners. Creating a network of experts they can draw upon whenever they want something a bit different.

What makes this interesting

There is a lot of freedom to experiment. Fresh thinking is welcomed. The organisation values someone who can take a challenge, break it down, and recommend something practical that fits the local context rather than relying on cookie‑cutter solutions.

You won’t be stuck behind a screen all week. You’ll travel. You’ll meet a huge variety of people. You’ll get to see first‑hand the impact your ideas have.

And you’ll work with a central marketing team that appreciates clear insight from the field. If you can bring them a sharp brief, they’ll bring it to life.

Who this suits

• Someone with a solid background in marketing who enjoys being out on the ground rather than confined to strategy docs in an office all day.


• Experience within Retail Marketing, Marketing/Brand Activation, Local Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Field Marketing (B2C / D2C) environments.


• Someone who can switch effortlessly between creative problem solving and commercial reasoning.


• Someone who likes people. Because you’ll be meeting a lot of them.


• Someone with the confidence to advise managers who don’t come from a marketing background.


• Someone organised, adaptable and comfortable travelling to different parts of the UK each week.

Experience in field marketing, local marketing, community engagement or multi‑site environments will all translate well.

A full UK driving licence is essential – as is the right to live and work in the UK.

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

You can share your LinkedIn profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122
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