Senior Marketing Manager

Ignite; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing allowance

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Hybrid/Remote working (1–2 days in CI)

Pension

Job summary

Ignite is excited to partner with a London-based food challenger brand to recruit a Senior Marketing Manager. This is a hands-on role with agency support and a £500k annual marketing budget, initially without a team.

Required: 5+ years in FMCG, strong trade, shopper and brand marketing, plus social media, CRM and content creation. Hybrid/remote working (1–2 days in Central London) and a competitive salary between £60k and £70k.

Qualifications

• 5+ years marketing experience within FMCG, ideally for a challenger Food/Drink brand.
• Strong experience across Trade, Shopper and Brand Marketing.
• Social media, influencer marketing, CRM and content creation experience beneficial.
• Experience working with marketing agencies and freelancers.
• Experience with Grocery Retail brands is essential.
• Comfortable operating as a one-person marketing team initially.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the Marketing strategy.
• Lead hands-on activity with agency support and manage a £500k annual budget.
• Progress the brand with no initial team, planning scalable growth.

Skills

Marketing strategy

Trade marketing

Shopper marketing

Brand marketing

Social media

CRM

Content creation

Influencer marketing

Agency collaboration

Grocery retail experience

Work solo / one-person team

Job description

Senior Marketing Manager

Food challenger brand London (1/2 days a week) £60k - £70k + Bonus (dependent upon experience)

Here at Ignite, we’re absolutely buzzing to be working with a super exciting Food challenger brand. The business has created a range of amazing products which has brought fresh, new and modern ideas to an established product category.

They’re looking to hire a Senior Marketing Manager to define and deliver the Marketing strategy. This is a VERY hands-on role, whilst you will have agency support and a decent budget (£500k for the year), you will not have a team underneath you initially.

What skills do you need to have to be considered?

• You need to have at least 5 years Marketing experience within an FMCG environment, ideally for a challenger Food/Drink brand.
• Strong experience across Trade, Shopper and Brand Marketing is extremely important.
• Strong social media, community management, influencer marketing, CRM and Content Creation experience would be beneficial, though not essential.
• Experience working with marketing agencies and freelancers is important.
• You need to have worked for a brand which trades in Grocery Retail, unfortunately candidates without this experience won’t be suitable.
• You need to be comfortable operating as a 1 person marketing team to begin with, without a team underneath you.

In return for everything you can bring, the business can offer you

• Competitive basic salary (£60k - £70k, depending upon experience)
• Health & wellbeing allowance
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Hybrid/Remote working policy (1/2 days a week in Central London)
• Pension

People are at the heart of everything we do. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process that means people can be their best authentic self.

We would love to reply to all applications, regrettably we are unable to do so due to the high volumes we receive, so if you do not hear back within 14 days unfortunately on this role it won’t be progressing. It is possible that the position could be in the process of closing, so chalk it up to bad timing. But, have no fear! There will be more opportunities.