Head of Marketing (12 month fixed term contract)

London, UK (Unknown)

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Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own global marketing strategy and execution to accelerate customer growth, with a strong emphasis on digital performance, cross-functional alignment, and measurable commercial impact.

  • Own integrated campaigns and performance optimization across brand and demand channels to drive growth and profitability.
  • Collaborate with finance, trading, data, ecommerce, and creative teams to ensure marketing priorities align with business goals and brand positioning.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • We're looking for a Head of Marketing to lead and evolve our global marketing strategy across key international markets.
  • Reporting into our Chief Financial Officer, this role will play a key part in accelerating customer growth, driving digital marketing performance, and supporting the continued development of the Reiss marketing function globally.
  • Working closely with senior leadership, agency partners, and cross-functional teams, you will lead strategic planning, integrated digital campaign execution, performance optimisation, and continuous innovation across the marketing landscape, ensuring all activity delivers clear and measurable commercial impact while continuing to elevate the Reiss brand globally.
  • Lead the development and execution of the Reiss marketing strategy, ensuring all activity supports wider brand and commercial objectives across the UK and international markets.
  • Oversee the delivery of integrated, digital-first marketing campaigns across performance and brand channels, ensuring a cohesive, customer-led approach across all touchpoints.
  • Driving marketing performance through ongoing analysis of channel effectiveness, campaign results, customer insight and media investment, identifying opportunities to optimise growth and profitability.
  • Manage agency relationships, ensuring strong strategic alignment, high-quality delivery, and measurable impact across both brand and performance.
  • Working closely with trading, finance, data, ecommerce and creative teams, you will ensure marketing activity is aligned to wider business priorities, customer demand and commercial goals.
  • Direct the management of marketing investment, including forecasting, planning and budget allocation, ensuring all decisions are commercially grounded, performance-led, and digitally focused.
  • Support the elevation of brand awareness across social, influencer, PR and partner channels, ensuring all external communications remain consistent with the Reiss brand and positioning.
  • Drive reporting and insight across the function, presenting performance updates, recommendations, and growth opportunities to senior leadership, while continuously identifying new opportunities, tools, and ways of working to evolve marketing effectiveness.

Requirements

  • A commercially minded marketing leader with strong experience across fashion, luxury, lifestyle or premium consumer brands, and a proven track record of driving customer acquisition, retention, and long-term brand growth.
  • You bring a strong balance of brand and performance, leading high-performing teams and delivering integrated, digital-first campaigns that deliver measurable commercial impact across global markets.
  • Highly analytical and insight-led, you use data, reporting, and performance analysis to optimise marketing effectiveness, guide media and budget investment decisions, and shape wider business strategy.
  • A confident leader, you are comfortable operating at senior level while managing agency partners and working closely across finance, trading, creative, ecommerce, and wider stakeholders to deliver aligned commercial outcomes across the business
  • Experienced in managing significant marketing budgets, you are confident in forecasting, tracking performance, and reallocating investment to maximise ROI and support business priorities.
  • The ability to combine commercial thinking with a forward-looking mindset, continually looking for ways to evolve marketing capability, improve performance, and unlock new growth opportunities.

Preferred

    Benefits

    • Competitive salary.
    • Up to 65% employee discount.
    • Access to exclusive sample sales.
    • Health and wellbeing services.
    • Medicash health support plan.
    • Workplace pension contribution.
    • Plus further workplace benefits.
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    Reiss

    5.0 Glassdoor

    Since its creation in 1971, Reiss has established a design philosophy centred on creating modern womenswear, menswear, accessories, and childrenswear that transcends time and trends.Today, we operate as a modern fashion house, offering attainable luxury collections of unwavering elegance.Our expert creative Product teams in our head office and stores, work tirelessly to dress our customers in reliable Reiss style - supported by the exceptional planning and execution of our support functions. From Logistics to IT, Finance to Marketing, every team member is dedicated to ensuring uncompromised precision, quality, service and ethics.Our people are what make our business great. We embrace every person’s individuality and build market-leading teams across head office and retail globally. The shared behaviours that bind us together are more than words. They’re the mindset, energy, and actions that shape how we work together and deliver as one: ambition, accountability, courage, commitment, focus and resilience.We nurture a culture of curiosity, creativity and authenticity. A diverse community with two purposes: the precision of our craftsmanship and dedication to our customers.

    Founded in 1971
    London, England, GBR
    1.5K employees (218 in marketing)
    0% recommend to a friend

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    2.8M
    Monthly Google Ads Budget
    $4K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    36%
    Direct
    56.3%
    Referral
    4.9%
    Social
    2.1%
    Paid
    0.6%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~1.5K

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    114 (7% of company)

    Funding

    Total Funding
    $221M
    Last Raise
    $161.1M
    Secondary Market, 3 years ago

    Funding History

    • Sep 2023
      Secondary Market • $161.1M
    • Mar 2021
      Secondary Market • $46M
    • Mar 2021
      Debt Financing • $13.9M

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