Head of Agency Growth

Hull/Remote (Hybrid Working)

£40000 - £50000 DOE plus Flexible Working, *Every other Friday off and Benefits

Are you an experienced Head of Marketing? Are you looking for your next role? 

Summit - The Changemakers in Online Retail and Performance Marketing have a fantastic opportunity looking for a Head of Agency Growth to join our team.

As the Head of Agency Growth you will own the ‘shop window’ of Summit. You will be promoting our vast experience and heritage in performance marketing, our unique and diverse people, our culture and our ability to become ‘Changemakers’ and “make it more likely that customers buy from our clients than anyone else”. You will bring the brand vision for Summit to life for staff, clients and partners by managing end-to-end events and campaigns, including the planning, executing and reviewing stages.

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

• Own our annual marketing plan and £100K+ marketing budget - ensuring key metrics are met: (i) Sales leads and (ii) Talent attraction.
• Ideate, develop and implement campaigns across the digital marketing communications mix including emails, blogs, webinars, landing pages, social media and SEO.
• Lead Summit-hosted events for prospects, partners, customers and retail industry interest groups.
• Act as administrator for our CRM system to integrate marketing activity with existing company processes and GDPR.
• Create, review and maintain key marketing messages for target audiences.
• Develop new ‘talent attraction’ campaigns for the business, showcasing Summit as a great place to work.
• Own company branding, tone of voice and corporate website to ensure content is current and cutting edge. They will deliver this in conjunction with other ‘Heads of’ within the business including paid, affiliates, SEO and Productcaster.
• Find, onboard and actively manage relationships with supporting partner agencies including PR and content.

Summiteers are asked to attend our office in the C4DI complex in Hull, Fruit Market 2 days per week, the rest of the week can be done from home. For the right candidate, we may also consider greater flexibility around office time.

What are we looking for?

Drive, determination and a self-disciplined approach are vital to be effective in this role. You will enjoy being a proactive team player who is motivated, enabling you to manage a diverse and busy workload. You should be able to jump in and execute changes when required, whilst being able to take a step back and lead on solutions for challenges.

Key skills and knowledge include:

• Having working knowledge of CRM management as well as agency/SaaS marketing experience, B2B sales and marketing processes and the fight for talent attraction.
• Idea generation; you will be a fountain of ideas and energy and comfortable working in a small team or independently to create ‘ever green’ content.
• You will need positivity and persistence to squeeze every drop out of our marketing investments.
• People skills to persuade and influence will also be key, ensuring collaboration with the client teams (where the marketing stories for Summit live), creating energy and enthusiasm to work with Summit brand marketing.
• Strategic thinking to see the big picture within our industry as well as organisation to work across two key objectives and business areas (sales and recruitment), analytic skills to interpret campaign performance and negotiation skills to ensure we’re getting value for money on our marketing investments.

What can we offer you?

At Summit, we’re friendly, professional and focused around our people. We look for candidates that embody our core values and strive for greatness. If that’s you, we can offer you progression opportunities within an established performance marketing agency where you’ll always be encouraged to think big.

As a reward for your time and dedication, we will offer you a competitive salary as well as a range of benefits including:

• Flexible working: From flexible start and finish times, to having every other Friday off*, we trust our people to work flexibly around their lifestyle and family arrangements.
• Up to 29 days' holiday per year (plus bank holidays): Our employees start with 25 days' holiday per year, increasing to up to 29 days with long service. You would also have the opportunity to purchase additional holidays with our holiday purchase scheme.
• Milestone days off: Whether it’s your birthday, you’re getting married, or it’s your child's first day at school, we want you to take the time off work to enjoy these special moments.
• £250 per year ‘experience for life’: Up to £250 a year to spend on pursuing a dream or to take part in an activity that leads to greater personal development.
• Discounts and benefits: Our rewards platform gives you access to discounts and offers on over 1000 retailers. From your weekly shop to a one-in-a-lifetime holiday, there will be a discount to suit your needs.
• Bupa health cash plan: We understand that everyday healthcare costs can quickly add up. We offer a cash plan through Bupa to claim back those costs such as a prescription or trip to the dentist.
• Bonus scheme: When Summit do well, we want our teams to reap the rewards so we have an annual bonus scheme based on company profits.
• Life assurance: Your family matters to us, in the event that something terrible happened, we want to make sure they are looked after.
• Religious holiday swaps: As some of our UK bank holidays are traditionally based around Christian events, we want to ensure we’re being inclusive and letting people celebrate religious holidays that matter to them.

Who are we?

Summit is a Changemaker in performance marketing and online retailing. For 22 years, we have worked with some of Europe’s most successful retailers and brands, helping them to transform their online business, growing their customer base and making them more money from retailing online.

We pride ourselves on our retail experience, business agility, genuine people and our proprietary technology, combining all of these with our performance marketing expertise to drive measurable value for our clients. More information on Summit can be found on our website: www.summit.co.uk.

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