Head of Marketing - Luxury Retail - Bookstore

• Manage and mentor the marketing team, refining its structure to support ongoing company growth. Lead and drive forward strategic initiatives while ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. First and foremost, foster a strong, collaborative team environment to meet both short-term objectives and long-term goals
• Shape and evolve the brand across all channels, from print and digital to in-store and event marketing
• Create campaigns that align with key themes (whether seasonal, based on landmark books or collections, or topical)
• Lead annual marketing schedules for catalogue launches, seasonal promotions and advertising campaigns
• Oversee the creation of our Christmas gift lists and seasonal in-store marketing
• Propose and run events in our stores and online, in collaboration with our sales and content team
• Pitch and execute fresh, innovative marketing ideas that will help grow the retail share
• Communicate with the marketing/digital teams to ensure all content aligns with the high standards of the brand's reputation for accuracy and quality

• Proven experience managing multi-channel marketing campaigns in a fast-paced environment
• A practical, hands-on approach to marketing operations
• Proven branding experience within luxury retail, with a track record of building strong brand identities
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across departments and with senior management
• Experience managing B2C outreach, events, and promotional activities
• Proven experience in engaging and managing agencies
• A knowledge of the Office suite and familiarity with CRM databases. Experience with a project management software is a significant plus
• An understanding of luxury market demographics and ability to research this
• Proven team leadership experience, ideally with 5+ years in a managerial role

21 days' annual leave plus bank holiday, holiday purchase scheme, staff parties, employee assistance programme, 7% employer pension contribution via a salary exchange scheme (subject to the employee making their contribution of 3%), season ticket loan, Cyclescheme, enhanced sick pay, enhanced maternity pay, enhanced paternity leave and pay, virtual GP access, seasonal flu jab voucher