Head of Marketing
Location: Northamptonshire (3 days office / 2 days home, with higher initial on-site presence)
Salary: £110,000 to £130,000 per annum + car allowance + generous bonus + private medical + excellent benefits
Zachary Daniels Retail Recruitment are proud to represent this client in the market in what is a fantastic opportunity.
One of the largest wholesale groups in the UK, a multi-billion-pound retail wholesale business, is seeking a Head of Marketing to lead its full marketing function during a period of exciting transformation. The business serves more than one million customers nationwide and supplies thousands of retail partners, operating a highly complex multi-brand model across both B2B and B2C channels within food service and wholesale.
The Role:
The Head of Marketing will take overall responsibility for the design and delivery of a unified group marketing strategy, bringing together multiple brands, divisions, and channel propositions under a single vision. The position will lead a large, multi-disciplinary marketing team of circa 40 to 50 professionals, including five senior direct reports.
This is a newly re-shaped leadership opportunity following organisational change and the retirement of a senior postholder. The successful Head of Marketing will define a fresh direction, modernise branding approaches, and elevate operational excellence across national promotional execution, trade marketing, and omnichannel marketing activity.
The role will also support the acceleration of new digital and rapid-delivery propositions, ensuring marketing continues to be a key commercial engine for the business.
Key responsibilities:
The Head of Marketing will be accountable for:
Unified brand and marketing strategy development and execution
Customer segmentation and insight-led planning
Trade marketing optimisation and national implementation
Campaign performance, commercial ROI and budget leadership
Modernisation of retail partner engagement tools and catalogue/POS strategy
Advocacy of digital transformation and growth initiatives
Inspirational leadership across the marketing team and wider business
Influence at board level, securing alignment behind the marketing agendaThe business has a bold ambition to double profit within the next 10 years, which requires a strategic, commercially astute leader who can identify new opportunities and drive sustained performance improvement.
Candidate requirements
The preferred Head of Marketing will demonstrate:
Experience operating at Head of Marketing, Marketing Director or senior-leadership level
Career grounding in complex retail, wholesale, food service or grocery environments
Ownership of marketing strategy in large-scale organisations with multiple moving parts
Proven commercial results and strong command of trade marketing levers
Ability to lead sizeable teams through transformation and unify diverse stakeholders
High emotional intelligence with the capability to win hearts and minds
Pragmatic decision-making and confidence managing upwards to board levelCulture and business environment:
This is a highly profitable, people-centric organisation that values authenticity and collaboration rather than corporate rigidity. The Head of Marketing will join at a moment of cultural evolution, with genuine scope to shape the function, bring creativity, and build a high-performing team.
Please make sure you apply today, please apply for this and don't approach the consultants direct due to agreed SLA with the client.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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