Brand Marketing Manager (10 - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

We are looking for a Brand Marketing Manager to join Team OB in our Support Office on 10 – 12 month fixed term contract

As a Brand Marketing Manager at OB, you will play a pivotal role at the heart of our brand marketing function, shaping how Oliver Bonas shows up in the world.

The focus for this role is creating culturally relevant, creatively ambitious and commercially powerful brand moments that connect deeply with our customer.

Reporting to the Head of PR & Campaigns, you’ll lead the development of our omnichannel campaigns, own the marketing calendar and work cross-functionally to bring standout creative ideas to life, ensuring everything we do is unmistakably OB.

As a part of the PR & Campaigns team, you’ll balance big-picture brand thinking with brilliant execution, leading a small team while collaborating closely across the business to deliver work that’s both creatively distinctive and commercially effective.

Our Support Office is based in Tolworth, near Chessington, only a 30-minute journey from London Waterloo. We offer hybrid working with a split of 3 days in the office and 2 days home working per week, and are open to having conversations about working flexibly.

A bit about us …

At Oliver Bonas (OB), our values of Work Hard, Play Hard & Be Kind are integral to everything we do. Collaboration, imagination, curiosity, and teamwork are key to our success, and everyone has their part to play in making OB a special place to work.

Having fun is key, and a playful and positive approach creates an optimistic environment. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we are serious about what we do.

Our team knows their stuff. They’re confident and creative and unafraid to challenge convention to find solutions, taking accountability for their actions, but always with kindness and humility.

More about the role …

An OB Brand Marketing Manager will:

• Own and shape the seasonal OB omnichannel marketing plan, ensuring every campaign or piece of content ladders back to a clear brand narrative and point of view

• Lead the development of big campaign ideas, from initial concept through to execution, ensuring they are creatively strong, culturally relevant and commercially impactful

• Translate brand strategy into brand moments that inspire customers, build emotional connection and drive engagement across all channels

• Champion bold, fresh thinking, constantly pushing creative boundaries while staying true to the OB brand

• Act as a true brand guardian, evolving how OB shows up while protecting its distinct voice, tone and identity

• Oversee the creation of compelling, insight-led content that cuts through and resonates with our community

• Lead and elevate the Organic Social function, ensuring best-in-class creative output, channel strategy and performance

• Ensure all marketing output reflects OB’s values, including sustainability and ethical practice, in an authentic and considered way

• Own the end-to-end delivery of campaigns across all channels, ensuring high standards, consistency and attention to detail

• Balance creativity with rigour — delivering campaigns on time, on budget and with clear objectives

• Evaluate performance, distilling insights into actionable learnings that continuously raise the bar for future campaigns

• Lead new store opening campaigns, creating moments that drive awareness, excitement and footfall

• Build strong, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, confidently presenting ideas and influencing direction

• Act as a connector across the business, ensuring brand thinking is embedded in everything we do

• Lead, coach and inspire your team to deliver their best work, setting clear expectations and supporting their development

Bonas Benefits:

• Generous employee discount up to 50% off all OB products

• Free access to our 24 hour employee assistance programme with Optima Health – offering financial, emotional and vocational support

• Flexible holiday – 33 days (including bank holidays) – increasing to 35 days with length of service

• Annual discretionary profit related bonus scheme

• Free membership for our Westfield Health Cash Plan or Private Medical

• Auto-enrolment into our pension plan

• Free access to our onsite gym

• Cycle to work scheme

• Refer a Friend incentive

• Quarterly free lunch

• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave

• Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity Voice network and EDI team

• Mental Health First Aider support

• Education and support through 360L eLearning platform

What we look for:

• A proven track record of creating and delivering standout, integrated campaigns for a lifestyle or consumer brand

• Strong brand instinct and creative eye, you know what great looks like and how to achieve it

• Experience leading campaign development from concept through to execution, with a passion for storytelling and ideas

• A deep understanding of customer, culture and content and how these come together to build brand relevance

• Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to bring structure to creative processes

• A collaborative mindset, with the confidence to influence, challenge and inspire stakeholders at all levels

• Experience leading Organic Social, with a clear point of view on content, creative direction and channel strategy

• Proven experience managing and developing a team

• Experience managing a budget and proving ROI

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at OB

At Oliver Bonas, our promise is to do our bit to make living a joyful experience and give cause for optimism. This promise is central to our work in equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). To bring joy to others, we must first ensure everyone at OB feels valued, included and most importantly, can be themselves at work.

It is important to us that our brand reflects wider society and the communities in which we operate. As a result, we welcome all eligible applicants for this role however we are particularly interested in speaking to eligible candidates from the Black, Asian & Mixed Heritage communities.

Oliver Bonas is a Disability Confident Committed employer under the Disability Confident employer scheme.

To read more about our ED&I commitments, head over to the EDI page on our website: https://www.oliverbonas.com/meet-the-team/diversity