South East based | Hybrid | London, client and event travel
We're Branded by Aquila – a fresh-blooded outsourced brand and marketing partner that's shakin' up the agency model. In fact, we hate the word agency. We embed. We collaborate. We innovate. And we work almost exclusively across the recruitment industry, helping recruitment agencies and their supply chain stand out, bill more and be better.
We've grown quickly, built an incredible client base and earned a reputation for doing things differently and brilliantly. Now, as BbA enters its next phase of growth, including international expansion, we're looking for an experienced marketing professional to play a pivotal role in our UK business.
A humble firecracker. A brilliant marketer first. A natural leader. And someone who understands the commercial value of bloody good marketing.
You'll be joining an established team of five, working closely with our Founder and Client Delivery & Operations Manager to oversee marketing quality, support our people and strengthen client relationships.
And as our Founder increasingly focuses on growing BbA internationally, there's a genuine opportunity for you to develop into the person leading our UK operation.
We're looking for someone who brings experience, ideas and confidence, but isn't interested in hierarchy for hierarchy's sake. We're a tight-knit, ambitious business. Everyone gets stuck in.
A flavour of what you’ll actually do
This role sits across four important areas of BbA:
- Marketing strategy & quality
- Client relationships & experience
- Team leadership & UK oversight
- Commercial growth
Marketing strategy & quality
Great marketing is at the heart of everything we do, and you'll play a key role in making sure our clients get exactly that.
- Provide senior marketing input across multiple client accounts, helping shape strategies, campaigns and priorities.
- Challenge briefs, ideas and deliverables to ensure everything we produce is commercially relevant and creatively strong.
- Support the team in translating client objectives into effective marketing activity.
- Bring fresh ideas, industry insight and experience to continually improve the quality of our work.
- Step in when a project or client needs more senior marketing expertise.
- Balance strategic thinking with a willingness to get involved in delivery when needed.
Commercial growth
While this isn't a traditional sales role, we absolutely want someone who understands that great marketing and strong relationships create commercial opportunities. You'll help grow BbA by:
- Building genuine relationships across the recruitment industry and its supply chain.
- Identifying opportunities for new business through networking, referrals, partnerships and existing clients.
- Contributing to pitches, proposals and commercial conversations.
- Spotting opportunities to grow existing accounts where we can genuinely add value.
- Representing BbA at industry events and developing your own presence within the market.
There will be commercial objectives attached to the role, but we're looking for a brilliant marketer who can contribute to growth, not a salesperson who happens to understand marketing.
We're embedded partners to our clients, which means relationships and quality matter. You'll:
- Lead and strengthen senior client relationships, ensuring clients feel supported, understood and challenged in the right way.
- Maintain high standards across client delivery, spotting issues early and helping the team continually improve.
- Help turn client objectives into strong, commercially relevant marketing activity.
- Support onboarding, renewals, account development and senior strategic conversations.
Team leadership & UK oversight
You'll be joining an established UK team of five, providing day-to-day marketing leadership, guidance and oversight. This isn't about coming in and becoming everyone's boss. We're a collaborative team with clear responsibilities, including an established Client Delivery & Operations Manager. Your role will include:
- Providing senior marketing guidance and direction across the team.
- Making decisions, challenging thinking and maintaining high standards without everything needing to go through our Founder.
- Supporting, mentoring and developing team members to help them do their best work.
- Overseeing the quality of marketing delivery and ensuring our clients continue to receive the premium service they expect from BbA.
- Encouraging collaboration, accountability and proactive problem-solving.
- Helping shape and strengthen the UK operation as the business continues to grow.
- And the longer-term opportunity? As BbA expands internationally, there's genuine scope for you to take on greater responsibility and eventually lead our UK operation.
Getting stuck in
Small business rule: sometimes you just need to roll your sleeves up. Whether that's shaping a campaign, improving a client presentation, challenging messaging or helping the team solve a problem, you'll need broad marketing knowledge, a creative eye and the willingness to get involved.
You don't need to be the deepest specialist in every discipline. But you do need to know what good looks like.
- Have substantial B2B marketing experience, ideally at Marketing Manager or Senior Marketing Manager level.
- Understand marketing strategy, campaign delivery and how different marketing disciplines work together.
- Can confidently review, challenge and improve marketing plans, creative ideas and client deliverables.
- Have experience managing multiple clients, brands or projects, ideally within an agency or consultancy environment.
- Are commercially minded, confident building relationships with senior stakeholders and spotting opportunities for client growth.
- Have experience leading, mentoring and developing people, with strong emotional intelligence and a collaborative leadership style.
- Are proactive, adaptable and comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.
We’ll put a ring on it if you also have:
- Experience within recruitment, staffing or the recruitment supply chain, ideally with an existing industry network.
- Experience in an agency, consultancy or multi-client environment.
- Experience growing accounts, winning work through relationships or helping scale a Founder-led business.
This is a South East-based hybrid role, with roughly three days each week involving the office/team, clients, London meetings, networking or events. Face‑to‑face time matters, particularly when you're leading people and building relationships. Desk graft is important, but we also need someone who enjoys being out in the market.
Hold up - what can we give you?
- Competitive salary plus annual performance bonus.
- 37.5-hour working week with some flexibility around start and finish times.
- 23 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, with an additional day for every two years served.
- Simplyhealth plan with 24/7 GP access, pension and discounted gym membership.
- Wellbeing mornings, volunteering and CSR days.
- Regular socials, industry events and networking opportunities.
- Monthly incentives on our famous "giant wheel" and an annual team performance incentive.
- Genuine influence over how the business evolves.
- Direct access to the Founder and leadership team.
- International exposure as BbA continues to expand.
- Real opportunities for progression, without ten layers of approval getting in the way.
The hidden benefits of joining now
You won't be joining to maintain something somebody else built. You'll help shape what comes next.
We're at a pretty exciting stage. Our UK business is established, our team is growing and we're taking BbA internationally.
As our Founder increasingly focuses on our Australian expansion, we want someone who can gradually take greater ownership of the UK operation.
That means the opportunity to progress beyond Senior Marketing Manager and potentially lead BbA UK as the team, client base and business continue to grow.
We're not promising a new title overnight. But for someone with the experience, ambition and ability to grow alongside us, there's a genuine opportunity to become a significant part of our future leadership.
If you want to build, lead, challenge, grow and get stuck in – we should talk.
Be Self-Propelling. Be Brave with Creativity. Be Empowered, to Empower.
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