Senior Marketing Executive

We are partnering with a fast-growing marketing agency. The agency works across channel marketing, relationship management, visual merchandising, socials, events and commercials for premium and mass-beauty clients. They are looking for a Senior Marketing Executive to join the team to deliver best-in-class client activation and drive growth across retail, ecommerce and experiential channels.

The role involves being a hands-on, client-facing marketer responsible for planning and delivering channel-led campaigns and activations. You will work closely with account leads, creative, retail and commercial teams to translate brand strategies into impactful in-store, online and social experiences that drive awareness, conversion and long-term partner relationships.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering channel marketing plans across retail and ecommerce partners, aligning on merchandising, promotional activity and in-store/online visibility.
• Managing retailer and distributor relationships day-to-day, acting as the main point of contact for campaign briefs, timings and commercial terms.
• Supporting visual merchandising and fixture planning: creating briefs, coordinating asset production, and overseeing rollout to ensure brand standards are met in-store.
• Developing social content briefs and working with internal creative and external creators to deliver on-brand organic and paid social activity that supports retail and product launches.
• Planning and delivering events and experiential activation, including supplier management, on-site coordination and post-event reporting.
• Managing commercials and budgets for assigned accounts: tracking spend, forecasting, and ensuring accurate reconciliation with partners and finance teams.
• Monitoring and reporting on campaign and channel performance, extracting actionable insights to optimise activity and demonstrate ROI to clients and stakeholders.
• Preparing client-facing materials: campaign plans, activation calendars, how-to guides for retail partners, and post-campaign performance presentations.
• Coordinating cross-functional delivery with creative, production and logistics to ensure timely, high-quality execution.
• Keeping up to date with retail, beauty and social trends, competitor activity and new formats to propose innovative activations and commercial opportunities.

About you:

You are an organised, commercially minded marketer with proven experience in beauty or related consumer categories. You enjoy building and managing retailer relationships, delivering visual merchandising and bringing social-first ideas to life through retail and experiential channels. You work well under pressure, are comfortable managing multiple clients and deliver to tight deadlines.

We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate the following:

• 3–5 years' experience in agency or brand-side marketing with exposure to channel marketing, retail or visual merchandising (beauty, FMCG or lifestyle preferred).
• Strong relationship management skills with experience liaising directly with retail buyers, store teams or distributor partners.
• Practical experience delivering visual merchandising briefs and overseeing in-store rollouts or retail activations.
• Hands-on experience briefing and managing creative and content production for social platforms (Instagram, TikTok and others).
• Confident handling commercials and basic budgeting, with attention to detail in reconciliations and invoicing.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing client presentations and performance reports.
• Analytical and data-literate: proficient at pulling insights from campaign metrics to make recommendations that improve performance.
• Highly organised, proactive and able to manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced agency environment and adapting to changing client priorities.

Why join:

• Work with leading beauty brands and a variety of retail and commercial partners at a pivotal time of growth.
• Exposure to end-to-end channel marketing, from creative concept through to in-store execution and commercial measurement.
• Opportunity to shape retail and social strategies within a collaborative, entrepreneurial agency environment.
• Clear progression opportunities as the agency and client roster expands.

Application notes:

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. Please submit a CV and a short cover note outlining relevant campaign experience and examples of retail, visual merchandising or social work you have contributed to. We aim to respond to every applicant; if you have not heard within 2 weeks, please assume your application has not been shortlisted on this occasion. We may retain your details to contact you about future roles being managed by The Growth Foundation Talent.