Interim Head of Marketing

What's the role about?

We're looking for a Head of Marketing to lead and evolve our global marketing strategy across key international markets. Reporting into our Chief Financial Officer, this role will play a key part in accelerating customer growth, driving digital marketing performance, and supporting the continued development of the Reiss marketing function globally.

Working closely with senior leadership, agency partners, and cross-functional teams, you will lead strategic planning, integrated digital campaign execution, performance optimisation, and continuous innovation across the marketing landscape, ensuring all activity delivers clear and measurable commercial impact while continuing to elevate the Reiss brand globally.

You will bring a forward-thinking, performance-led approach to marketing leadership, championing data-driven decision making, identifying opportunities for growth, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement across the function.

This position is a 12-month fixed term contract.

Who you are

• A commercially minded marketing leader with strong experience across fashion, luxury, lifestyle or premium consumer brands, and a proven track record of driving customer acquisition, retention, and long-term brand growth.
• You bring a strong balance of brand and performance, leading high-performing teams and delivering integrated, digital-first campaigns that deliver measurable commercial impact across global markets.
• Highly analytical and insight-led, you use data, reporting, and performance analysis to optimise marketing effectiveness, guide media and budget investment decisions, and shape wider business strategy.
• A confident leader, you are comfortable operating at senior level while managing agency partners and working closely across finance, trading, creative, ecommerce, and wider stakeholders to deliver aligned commercial outcomes across the business
• Experienced in managing significant marketing budgets, you are confident in forecasting, tracking performance, and reallocating investment to maximise ROI and support business priorities.
• The ability to combine commercial thinking with a forward-looking mindset, continually looking for ways to evolve marketing capability, improve performance, and unlock new growth opportunities.
• A people-focused leader, you build and develop high-performing teams, foster a collaborative culture, and balance long-term brand building with short-term trading and performance delivery.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the development and execution of the Reiss marketing strategy, ensuring all activity supports wider brand and commercial objectives across the UK and international markets.
• Oversee the delivery of integrated, digital-first marketing campaigns across performance and brand channels, ensuring a cohesive, customer-led approach across all touchpoints.
• Driving marketing performance through ongoing analysis of channel effectiveness, campaign results, customer insight and media investment, identifying opportunities to optimise growth and profitability.
• Manage agency relationships, ensuring strong strategic alignment, high-quality delivery, and measurable impact across both brand and performance.
• Working closely with trading, finance, data, ecommerce and creative teams, you will ensure marketing activity is aligned to wider business priorities, customer demand and commercial goals.
• Direct the management of marketing investment, including forecasting, planning and budget allocation, ensuring all decisions are commercially grounded, performance-led, and digitally focused.
• Support the elevation of brand awareness across social, influencer, PR and partner channels, ensuring all external communications remain consistent with the Reiss brand and positioning.
• Drive reporting and insight across the function, presenting performance updates, recommendations, and growth opportunities to senior leadership, while continuously identifying new opportunities, tools, and ways of working to evolve marketing effectiveness.

What we'll do for you

• Competitive salary.
• Up to 65% employee discount.
• Access to exclusive sample sales.
• Health and wellbeing services.
• Medicash health support plan.
• Workplace pension contribution.
• Plus further workplace benefits.