Head of Marketing (12 month fixed term contract) in London

We’re looking for a Head of Marketing to lead and evolve our global marketing strategy across key international markets. Reporting into our Chief Financial Officer, this role will accelerate customer growth, drive digital marketing performance, and support the continued development of Reiss’ marketing function globally. Working closely with senior leadership, agency partners, and cross‑functional teams, you will lead strategic planning, integrated digital campaign execution, performance optimisation, and continuous innovation across the marketing landscape, ensuring all activity delivers clear and measurable commercial impact while continuing to elevate the Reiss brand globally. Position is a 12‑month fixed term contract.

Who You Are

• Commercially minded marketing leader with strong experience across fashion, luxury, lifestyle or premium consumer brands, and a proven track record of driving customer acquisition, retention, and long‑term brand growth.
• Strong balance of brand and performance, leading high‑performing teams and delivering integrated, digital‑first campaigns that deliver measurable commercial impact across global markets.
• Highly analytical and insight‑led, using data, reporting, and performance analysis to optimise marketing effectiveness, guide media and budget investment decisions, and shape wider business strategy.
• Confident leader comfortable operating at senior level while managing agency partners and working closely across finance, trading, creative, e‑commerce, and wider stakeholders to deliver aligned commercial outcomes.
• Experienced in managing significant marketing budgets, confident in forecasting, tracking performance, and reallocating investment to maximise ROI and support business priorities.
• Ability to combine commercial thinking with a forward‑looking mindset, continually looking for ways to evolve marketing capability, improve performance, and unlock new growth opportunities.
• People‑focused leader who builds and develops high‑performing teams, fosters a collaborative culture, and balances long‑term brand building with short‑term trading and performance delivery.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead the development and execution of Reiss’ marketing strategy, ensuring all activity supports wider brand and commercial objectives across the UK and international markets.
• Oversee the delivery of integrated, digital‑first marketing campaigns across performance and brand channels, ensuring a cohesive, customer‑led approach across all touchpoints.
• Drive marketing performance through ongoing analysis of channel effectiveness, campaign results, customer insight and media investment, identifying opportunities to optimise growth and profitability.
• Manage agency relationships, ensuring strong strategic alignment, high‑quality delivery, and measurable impact across both brand and performance.
• Work closely with trading, finance, data, e‑commerce and creative teams to ensure marketing activity is aligned to wider business priorities, customer demand and commercial goals.
• Direct the management of marketing investment, including forecasting, planning and budget allocation, ensuring all decisions are commercially grounded, performance‑led, and digitally focused.
• Support the elevation of brand awareness across social, influencer, PR and partner channels, ensuring all external communications remain consistent with the Reiss brand and positioning.
• Drive reporting and insight across the function, presenting performance updates, recommendations and growth opportunities to senior leadership, while continuously identifying new opportunities, tools and ways of working to evolve marketing effectiveness.

What We’ll Do For You

• Competitive salary.
• Up to 65% employee discount.
• Access to exclusive sample sales.
• Health and wellbeing services.
• Medicash health support plan.
• Workplace pension contribution.
• Further workplace benefits.

We recognise the importance and power of diversity within our business, ensuring our people processes are fair, transparent and promote equality of opportunity for all candidates. We pledge that candidates will not be discriminated against on the grounds of gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, marital status, age, race, colour, ethnic background, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion, religious or similar belief. Every individual will be treated with respect. We know that some people won’t apply for a role unless they feel they meet all of the requirements listed. We want you to know that finding people who will add to our inspirational culture and have a learning mindset is incredibly important to us. Even if you feel you don’t tick all the boxes, we’d still like to hear from you.