Marketing Manager

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Marketing Manager, or an ambitious Marketing Executive or Co-Ordinator, with a proven track record in marketing for a small to medium size technical, engineering or manufacturing company.   Working for the very well established and successful UK Sales & Service office of a major European manufacturer of packaging machinery solutions sold into the food industry, your brief will be to help to grow sales, working closely with the sales team.   BASIC SALARY: up to £48,000   BENEFITS:· Circa £5,000 annual bonus · 8% Pension   LOCATION: This is a home based role so your current location is not important although the company would prefer someone living within 2 hours of their office in Buckinghamshire - as you will be expected to be in the office every two weeks or so.   COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Milton Keynes, Northampton, Peterborough, Birmingham, Nottingham Coventry, Oxford, Cambridge, Leicester, Watford   JOB DESCRIPTION: Marketing Manager, Marketing Executive - Engineering, Manufacturing   Reporting to the Managing Director, and working closely with the UK sales team and the European marketing team, this is an autonomous sales focussed Marketing Manager role, using the CRM and a marketing budget of circa £25,000 (excluding Trade Shows) to generate leads and qualify those leads to create appointments.   The Marketing Manager role will involve creating a digital marketing strategy, content creation, CRM management, lead and appointment generation for the sales team, internal communications & management of trade shows where the company are exhibiting.   PERSON SPECIFICATION: Marketing Manager, Marketing Executive - Engineering, Manufacturing   · You WILL have a proven track record as a Marketing Manager or be an ambitious Marketing Executive or Co-Ordinator working in a B2B environment who has worked in a small to medium sized industrial, engineering or manufacturing company. · You WILL be qualified in Marketing ideally but not essentially to degree level. · Any relevant product (packaging machinery) or market (food industry) knowledge would be advantageous but is not essential. · Any previous experience with marketing to specifically create new business would be advantageous.   THE COMPANY:  A very well established and successful UK Sales & Service office of a major European manufacturer of packaging machinery supplied to the food processing and manufacturing sector. This role is to replace someone retiring in early 2025. A genuinely nice place to work where people are treated right.   PROSPECTS:  Prospects are limited in the UK with this company, but there will be career progression within the larger group of companies of which they are part, if you are both successful and ambitious.   INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.   Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.   REF: SM17898, Wallace Hind Selection