Marketing Manager

Horsted Keynes, Brighton and Hove, UK (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level

Posted 10 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and execute UK trade marketing initiatives across retailers, coordinating campaigns, assets, events, and TikTok Shop performance, while managing budgets, partners and insights.

  • Own trade marketing calendar and budget management
  • Drive retailer partnerships and communications
  • Oversee TikTok Shop performance and external partners

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Planning and executing trade marketing activities that support sell-in, sell-through and stronger retailer partnerships across the UK market
  • Acting as the key marketing contact for UK retailers and channel partners, ensuring campaigns, promotions and activations are delivered smoothly and to brand standards
  • Coordinating promotional activities, point-of-sale materials, product launches, trade activations and channel-specific campaigns
  • Working closely with the sales team to turn account priorities into practical marketing support, including assets, campaign materials and retailer communication
  • Managing trade marketing timelines, budgets, suppliers and feedback to continuously improve campaign performance
  • Taking ownership of TikTok Shop performance by managing the external agency, setting the content and promotional calendar, and tracking sales, conversion, engagement and ROI
  • Coordinating TikTok creators, affiliates and live-selling activity while ensuring brand consistency and compliance with platform and brand guidelines
  • Planning and delivering UK brand events, including launches, activations, trade shows, exhibitions and retailer or partner events
  • Managing external partners such as agencies, creators, designers, printers and event suppliers, ensuring work is delivered on time, on brief and within budget
  • Tracking and reporting on trade marketing, TikTok Shop and event performance, sharing clear insights and recommendations with management

Requirements

  • Demonstrable experience in trade/channel marketing, retail marketing or a similar commercial marketing role
  • Hands-on experience managing TikTok Shop, e-commerce or social commerce activity — including managing agencies or external partners
  • Experience planning and delivering events, activations or exhibitions
  • Background in retail, beauty, cosmetics, consumer goods or wholesale is a strong advantage
  • Confident with social commerce metrics, marketing analytics and budget management
  • Fluent English required

Preferred

  • Strong commercial instinct — able to connect marketing activity to sell-through and ROI
  • Confident owning workstreams and managing agencies/partners with minimal oversight
  • Excellent organisation across multiple campaigns, deadlines and stakeholders
  • Creative, proactive and comfortable moving between strategy and hands-on delivery

Benefits

  • A key role in a growing international beauty company
  • Dynamic and entrepreneurial working environment
  • Exposure to international beauty brands and markets
  • Supportive and collaborative company culture
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Flat organizational structure encouraging initiative and ownership
  • Make suggestions and recommendations to improve work efficiency, quality and processes
  • Expect safe, healthy and appropriate working conditions
  • Receive the necessary information, documents, tools and resources required to fulfil job responsibilities
  • Request relevant training