Trade Marketing Lead

We have a fantastic opportunity for a career focused Marketing Lead (trade focused) to join our client's growing and successful business, headquartered near Huntingdon/Cambridge.

With continued success and growth year on year for over 10 years, our client is a consumer electronics distributor with multiple large brand names in their portfolio.

This role requires a proactive individual who can manage retail and B2B marketing activities while ensuring seamless execution across multiple channels.

The Trade Marketing Lead will be responsible for:

• Retail Marketing & Media Management: Overseeing retail digital media, POS materials, and in-store advertising to drive consumer engagement.
• In-Store & Event Coordination: Managing in-store demonstrator calendars, and planning and executing trade shows and B2B events.
• Marketing Asset Production: Coordinating the design and production of digital campaign artwork, POS materials, and trade literature.
• Budget Oversight: Tracking, managing, and reporting on trade marketing budgets across brands.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Working closely with Brand Managers and Sales teams to align marketing strategies with commercial goals.

You will have proven experience within trade marketing, retail activation and/or event management, strong organisational and budget management capabilities, be comfortable working cross-functionally with internal teams and have basic graphic design skills (e.g., using tools like Adobe Creative Suite).

If you're a commercially minded ecommerce executive, take pride in delivering excellent customer journeys and want to drive your career forward with an 'employee first' organisation, this is your next role!

With hybrid working, a salary paying to 45,000 DOE and extensive employee benefits, they also offer a 10,000 yearly profit share bonus based on the performance of the brands you represent, and you will have real autonomy and input into the annual strategy.

If the above sounds interesting and you can work 3 days from their office near St Ives, then please send through an updated version of your CV and we can set up an initial conversation. Ideally candidates will already be located in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, East Northants or North Hertfordshire.

Zero Surplus is East Anglia's premier recruitment agency, based just outside Cambridge our sales recruiters source staff for small and international B2B & B2C businesses across Cambridgeshire and the East of England.

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