Senior Brand Manager - 9 Month FTC

London, UK (Hybrid)

£65K/yr – £80K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 18 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own the UK brand strategy and integrated campaigns from brief to launch while leading agency partners, measurement, and budget, and coach junior team members.

  • Lead and execute locally relevant campaigns that translate global brand strategy into growth.
  • Collaborate with data, insights, and product to measure impact and optimise ROI.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Translate global brand and proposition strategy into locally relevant, growth-driving execution, ensuring our brand platform is embedded consistently across all customer touchpoints.
  • Own the end-to-end development and delivery of integrated campaigns from brief to launch, balancing short-term commercial needs with long-term brand building.
  • Lead and challenge creative agency partners to produce standout, distinctive work, acting as the internal champion for courageous, high-quality creative across every brief, review, and execution.
  • Drive strong go-to-market execution for key product and proposition launches, ensuring cohesive and impactful delivery across all brand touchpoints.
  • Set clear campaign objectives and partner with Data Science and Insights to embed robust measurement, testing, and optimisation from the outset.
  • Own UK brand tracking, translating insight into clear action and continuously improving campaign effectiveness and return on investment.
  • Manage the UK brand budget with strong financial discipline, maintaining high standards across briefing, creative appraisal, and execution governance.
  • Line manage and coach junior members of the team, building a culture of high standards, considered risk-taking, and test-and-learn marketing.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in brand marketing within a consumer-facing business, with a proven track record of delivering campaigns that are creatively distinctive and commercially effective.
  • Strong creative judgment, with the ability to recognise genuinely great work and articulate clearly what makes it land.
  • A clear, confident point of view on brand, and the ability to champion that perspective while bringing others on the journey with you.
  • Strong commercial acumen, with a solid understanding of how brand investment translates into measurable business growth.
  • Experience leading and challenging creative agencies to produce their most distinctive and impactful work.
  • A collaborative and influential working style, with the ability to build strong relationships and align stakeholders across teams and at all levels of seniority.
  • Comfort working with data, measurement frameworks, and performance analysis, with the ability to turn insight into clear, actionable decisions.
  • Ideally, experience line managing or mentoring junior team members, and a genuine commitment to supporting others' development.

Benefits

  • Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.
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Trainline

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Trainline is proud to be Europe's leading rail and coach platform - a tech company with a mission to make train travel as smooth as possible to allow travellers to make greener travel choices. We bring together millions of routes, fares and journey times from more than 270 rail and coach carriers across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That's £5.9 billion in ticket sales annually, and +125 million visits to our apps and websites each month from users seamlessly booking and managing their journeys through our website or mobile app and via our B2B partner channels. We offer our customers the best price for their journey and smart, real-time travel information on the go. Our smart technology and data-driven features help our customers to stay one step ahead. We aim to make rail and coach travel easier and more accessible. The environment is fundamental to our purpose - through our technology, and data, we make rail travel easier, inspiring people to make travel choices that are better for the environment.

Founded in 1997
London, England, GBR
1.2K employees (121 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
75% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

£65K/yr – £80K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$275.3M
Last Raise
$275.3M
Series Unknown, 20 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2006
    Series Unknown • $275.3M

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27.9%
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Senior Brand Manager - 9 Month FTC

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