Commercial (Trade) Marketing Manager in Andover

About Le Creuset: At Le Creuset, every dish begins with a story - and every story begins with people. Since 1925, we’ve brought generations together around the table, transforming everyday meals into cherished memories. Our legacy is built on colour, craft, and a deep passion for innovation - shaped as much by our iconic products as by the people who bring them to life. We’re not just creating cookware; we’re creating moments that last a lifetime. If you’re inspired by heritage, driven by creativity, and ready to shape the future of the kitchen, we’d love to welcome you into our story.

The Recipe for Success: Role Summary As Commercial Marketing Manager, you'll be responsible for the execution, coordination and continuous optimisation of commercial marketing activity, ensuring every customer touchpoint is prepared and served to the highest possible standard across our Own Retail boutiques and key retail partners, including John Lewis Partnership and Harrods. A key ingredient of the role is helping establish Own Retail as one of Le Creuset's most inspiring brand experience channels.

Key Responsibilities:

• Bringing Our Boutiques to Life: Serving up engaging retail campaigns that transform browsing shoppers into loyal Le Creuset enthusiasts through meaningful and memorable experiences.
• Executing Wholesale Marketing Activations: Delivering marketing campaigns and activations for key retail partners, ensuring all activity is executed on time and to the highest standard.
• Delivering Exceptional Events & Experiences: Coordinating the logistics, materials and execution of in-store events, festivals, trade shows and brand activations.
• Measuring Success: Tracking campaign performance through key commercial metrics such as footfall, engagement, conversion and sell-through.
• Collaborating Across the Business: Working closely with colleagues across Marketing, Retail, Sales, Category Merchandising and European Centre of Excellence teams to ensure smooth delivery of activity.

What We're Looking For: You're someone who loves bringing brands to life and understands that every customer interaction is an opportunity to create something memorable.

Your Flavour Profile (Behaviours & Traits):

• Creative and customer-focused, with a passion for delivering experiences that surprise, delight and inspire.
• Highly organised, with the ability to keep multiple projects simmering at once while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
• A natural collaborator who builds strong relationships across teams, agencies, suppliers and retail partners.
• Proactive and solutions-oriented, always ready to roll up your sleeves and make things happen.
• Commercially minded, able to balance creativity with results and understand what drives retail performance.
• Adaptable and energetic, thriving in a fast-paced environment where no two days look quite the same.
• Curious and innovative, always on the lookout for fresh ideas, emerging trends and new ways to engage customers.
• Confident communicating with a wide range of stakeholders and comfortable influencing others to achieve shared goals.
• Passionate about premium brands and creating experiences that transform stores from places to shop into destinations customers want to visit again and again.

Skills & Qualifications - Essential Ingredients:

• Proven experience in Retail Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Experiential Marketing, Brand Activation or a related discipline within a premium, luxury, lifestyle, hospitality or consumer-facing brand.
• A strong track record of planning and delivering in-store campaigns, customer events, experiential activations and engagement programmes that drive brand awareness, footfall and loyalty.
• Experience creating premium retail experiences, including retail theatre, visual merchandising initiatives, launch events and customer-focused activations.
• Excellent project management skills, with experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, agencies, suppliers and operational teams to deliver high-quality marketing activity on time and within budget.
• Strong commercial awareness and experience measuring success through key retail metrics, using data and insights to continuously improve performance.
• An understanding of direct-to-consumer retail environments and a passion for creating memorable customer journeys from first interaction through to purchase and beyond.
• Outstanding communication, stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• A degree in Marketing, Business, Communications or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Other Requirements: You’ll be office-based in Andover four days per week, working closely with the wider marketing and cross-functional teams to keep everything running like a well-organised kitchen.

Why Join Our Table? At Le Creuset, you will find your seat at our table, which is as colourful as our cookware and rich in history. Our table is grounded in our values: Passion, Integrity, Excellence, Innovation and Teamwork. Every talent will add flavour. Every idea brings colour. And every day is a chance to create something that lasts.

Diversity & Inclusion Statement: We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, race, ethnic or national origin. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential.