Marketing Manager

Marketing Manager - Contract Hire - Looking to hire ASAP

Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months with a view to extend
Location: London, Kings Cross - Onsite
Rate: £370 - £450 per day, on a PAYE Model - 15% additional bonus

Summary:
Our client is looking for an experienced Marketing Manager to proactively identify challenges and opportunities for the business in the EMEA region, design appropriate insights fuelled marketing strategies and develop impactful plans and executions, which drive to meaningful outcomes.

The ideal candidate is someone who is excited about working at the intersection of creativity and technology, marketing products that push the boundaries of computing and human interaction into new and uncharted territories. Passionate about launching industry first technologies and features, then identifying insights and audiences to drive best in class creative work. They're able to work cross functionally with a geographically dispersed and multi-disciplinary group in the development of marketing strategy, plans and execution.

Responsibilities:

• EMEA Marketing Initiatives: Design and manage with cross functional partners innovative solutions to scale business critical programmes (launches, campaigns, partnerships, experiential, etc.).
• Build the foundation of complex, insights-based audience strategies that help define the consumer marketing strategy for EMEA, delivering against both global brand objectives, and local business priorities.
• Proactively develop insights and apply to the business to identify gaps and opportunities with clear, actionable takeaways and recommendations.
• A key contributor to developing full funnel marketing campaigns to ensure relevance and impact in EMEA, to cut through and deliver against agreed campaign goals.
• A measurement first mindset; partnering with Decision Science to build measurement plans ensuring work-streams deliver quantifiable outcomes.
• Cultivate collaborative relationships with key internal and agency partners to synthesize thinking, crystallize insights, align on strategy, integrate creative cross-functionally, measure the impact and scale learnings.
• Effective and inspiring partner to creative agencies in developing stand-out marketing communications

The expertise we are looking for:

• Marketing strategy and execution experience (leading brand strategy)
• Hardware brand/product marketing experience
• B2C consumer marketing background
• 10+ years of experience marketing for consumer-facing brand(s) in UK and Europe.
• Experience developing regional or EMEA marketing strategy and integrated consumer campaigns at well established brands.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with and lead cross-functional teams, either formally through reporting structure or informally through influence.
• Experience in identifying and leveraging insights and analytics.
• Proven experience developing bold, breakthrough integrated marketing campaigns that drove measurable results at a local or regional level.
• Proven ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast-moving and ever-changing environment.
• Outstanding creative sense, plus excellent written and verbal communication skills