New Job - Marketing Manager

First People Recruitment; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK importer and distributor is seeking a Marketing Manager to cover maternity leave. The ideal candidate will have strong PR and marketing communication skills, experience managing events, and proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite. This role is hybrid, facilitating a balance between office and remote work. The successful application will involve planning marketing strategies, managing budgets, and leading supplier relationships.

Benefits

8% bonus

Hybrid work model

Qualifications

• Have experience of using Adobe Creative Suite and managing events.
• Eligible to work in the UK, sponsorship not available.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute a marketing & comms plan for acquisition and growth.
• Design content with suppliers for social media using Canva.
• Maintain new website post launch working with IT.
• Lead relationships with suppliers ensuring alignment.
• Set and administer annual marketing budget.
• Assess effectiveness of marketing activity and make recommendations.
• Gain market insights and share knowledge.
• Ensure brand consistency across channels and collateral.
• Provide marketing materials for teams to function effectively.
• Collaborate with senior managers to measure campaign costs.
• Identify and realize new business opportunities.
• Manage company events including trade shows.
• Responsible for NPD prior to launch.

Skills

PR & Marketing Communications

Managing events

Adobe Creative Suite

B2B experience

Communication & collaboration skills

Project leadership

Data interpretation skills

Creative & strategic thinking

Excel skills

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Canva

Job description

Your New Job Title: Marketing Manager

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

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.

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

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

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 (Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn), using Canva
• Maintain new website post launch (Q4 2025) working with IT on any post launch integration of other sites
• Leads 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 a thorough and competitive insight of the market 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

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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.

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