Marketing Manager

People First Recruitment; Tonbridge; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK importer of quality foods is seeking a Marketing Manager to cover maternity leave. This role involves planning marketing strategies, managing supplier relationships, and leading event coordination. Strong skills in Adobe Creative Suite and B2B marketing experience are essential. The position offers a hybrid working model in Tonbridge, Kent, with a competitive salary package.

Benefits

8% bonus

Work from home flexibility

Diversity and inclusion commitment

Qualifications

• Experience using Adobe Creative Suite and managing events.
• Strong project leadership and people management skills.
• Creative and strategic thinker with a detailed understanding of PR.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute marketing strategies to meet growth goals.
• Design content for social media in collaboration with suppliers.
• Lead relationships with suppliers and manage marketing budgets.

Skills

PR & Marketing Communications

Managing events

Adobe Creative Suite

B2B experience

First class communication skills

Data interpretation

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Canva

Excel

Job description

Overview

The Skills You'll Need: PR & Marketing Communications, Managing events, Adobe Creative Suite, B2B experience

Your New Salary: up to £51K per annum plus 8% bonus

Location: Tonbridge, Kent

Duration: Maternity cover - FTC - expected to be 12 months

Job status: hybrid - 4 days a week in office, 1 day a week WFH

Working hours: 37.5 h per week, Monday - Friday, 9am - 5.30pm

Job posting ID: 23184

Who You'll Be Working for:

A leading UK importer and distributor of quality cheeses and fine foods is looking for a Marketing Manager to join their Marketing Team to cover for a period of maternity leave.

Important eligibility

To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:

1. Have experience of using Adobe Creative Suite, as well as managing events.
2. Are eligible to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this role.

If that means this job isn’t a match for you please view our other vacancies for one that may be a better fit.

Marketing Manager - What You’ll Be Doing

• Plan and execute a marketing & comms plan for the calendar year, to ensure acquisition and growth goals are met, with a focus on lead generation
• Design content with our suppliers for social media, using Canva
• Maintain new website post launch (Q4 2025) working with IT on any post launch integration of other sites
• Lead our relationships with suppliers to ensure alignment on marketing and future developments, working with both the retail and independent arms of the business
• Set and administer annual marketing budget for the approval of the Board
• Assess the effectiveness of marketing activity and make recommendations of adaptations if required
• Gain thorough and competitive market insights through customer and major stakeholder insights (trade magazines) and share the knowledge accordingly
• Ensure the company’s brand and tone of voice is consistent across all channels and collateral
• Provide tools and marketing materials to enable the Production, Sales & Commercial teams to function effectively (monthly promotional leaflets, annual brochure and Christmas brochure, along with any other POS as the business requires)
• Collaborative working with senior managers to manage and measure marketing campaign costs
• Identify new business opportunities and work with the Production, Sales & Commercial teams to realise those opportunities
• Take the lead on managing company events (trade shows in April and September along with retailer event in November) from arranging products, H&S assessments etc.
• Responsible for NPD prior to launch and sourcing new products for our portfolio
• Support the onboarding of any acquired business

Marketing Manager - The Skills You’ll Need to Succeed

• First class communication & collaboration skills including negotiations with agencies
• Detailed understanding of effective PR and Marketing Communications
• Strong project leadership and people management skills including influencing to influence
• Strong data interpretation skills with the ability to devise an action plan based on the data
• Proven understanding of fully integrated marketing strategies, essentially across multi-channel campaigns, events, content marketing and social media
• Creative & strategic thinker
• Experience of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Canva)
• Strong Excel skills
• Background in B2B is preferable

We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

People First is committed to increasing diversity, and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether or not they have a disability.

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