Head of Brand and Campaigns

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the brand architecture and integrated campaigns, translating strategy into shopper-ready assets and retail activation that drive visibility and conversion across US/UK while aligning with sales and growth priorities.

  • Brand Stewardship: Own positioning, tone and message hierarchy across channels.
  • Shopper Activation: Translate campaigns into POS, sampling scripts, retailer content, and shelf-ready assets.
  • Cross-Functional Execution: Align with Growth, Sales, and Creative to deliver fast, effective paid and organic creative while maintaining brand distinctiveness.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brand Strategy: Own the brand strategy, positioning and message hierarchy in the US and UK.
  • Brand Distinction: Keep the brand distinct from fake alcohol, soft drinks, wellness shots and generic “better for you” drinks.
  • Tone of Voice: Protect the tone of voice across every touchpoint.
  • Campaign Planning: Build the annual campaign calendar across DTC, Grocery, Amazon, trade, paid media, CRM, PR, organic social and content.
  • Campaign Platforms: Plan key seasonal and commercial moments and develop campaign platforms that can stretch across paid creative, trade assets, email, site, PR, retail media, sampling and social.
  • Commercial Alignment: Work with Growth and Sales so brand activity is tied to real commercial priorities.
  • Creative Leadership: Brief and lead Brand Creative across campaign assets, photography, art direction, design, content and brand worlds.
  • Paid Creative Collaboration: Work closely with the Performance Creative Lead so paid creative is fast, effective and still recognisably Mother Root.
  • Retail Activation: Partner with the Head of Sales and Trade Marketing to build retail activation plans.
  • Shopper Assets: Translate campaigns into shopper-facing assets: POS, shelf talkers, sampling scripts, retailer.com content, trade decks, serve cards and demo materials.
  • Shoppers’ Understanding: Make sure shoppers quickly understand what Mother Root is, when to drink it, how to serve it, and why it is worth the price.
  • Asset Coherence: Support Grocery, Amazon, Ocado, independents and future US retail expansion with coherent brand and campaign assets.
  • Trade & Calendar Connection: Connect trade moments with the wider campaign calendar.
  • Paid Creative Agenda: Work with the Head of Growth, Paid Social Manager and Performance Creative Lead to shape the paid creative agenda.
  • Paid Learning: Understand what is winning in paid and help translate that learning into the wider campaign and content system.
  • Brand vs Performance Balance: Help balance direct-response clarity with long-term brand distinctiveness.
  • PR Management: Ensure PR consultants and shape the founder and category story.
  • Community & Social: Work with community and social leads to keep the brand close to its customers.
  • Organic Publishing: Use organic social as an important publishing, community and creative-learning channel.