Head of Marketing

**Role description**:
**Your Mission**:

- Strategic Leadership
- Develop and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy aligned with the company's goals and objectives. Drive brand positioning, messaging, and value proposition across all channels.
- Identify trends, opportunities, and competitive landscape to optimize campaign effectiveness.
- Management of Department
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing marketing team, including best-in-class freelancers across various regions and foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, and accountability.
- Establish and deploy processes, Ways of Working, and tools to support growth and efficiency.
- Manage the marketing budget and allocate resources effectively across channels and campaigns.
- Brand Management & Marketing
- Oversee the development and execution of brand initiatives, ensuring consistent messaging and a strong brand presence in the market.
- Collaborate with the Product and Sales teams to develop go-to-market strategies for new taste solutions and manage successful product launches.
- Establish KPIs and metrics to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. Use analytics tools to track performance and adjust strategies as needed.
- Employer Branding, Public Relations & Communications
- Oversee the company's employer branding initiatives in collaboration with our People and Culture function.
- Manage public relations efforts, media relations, press releases, and develop communication strategies to enhance the company’s public image.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- University degree with outstanding performance, preferably in business, marketing or communications or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of professional experience in Marketing, preferably in a fast-growth environment, with a minimum of 3-5 years in a senior marketing leadership role
- Proven track record of building and leading a successful, multidisciplinary marketing team and strong skills in team building, mentoring, and fostering creativity.
- Driven, hands-on leader with strong decision-making abilities and attention to detail.
- Excellent organizational, planning and prioritization skills with proven ability to build from scratch while taking ownership and responsibility.
- Fluency in English and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience in the Flavour & Fragrance Industry
- Fluency in German

**Why you'll love working here**:

- The opportunity to contribute to the expansion of a global group in the F&F space.
- High level of responsibility and independence.
- Ability to make an impact.
- Exciting work environment with an energetic, motivated, and international team.
- Competitive compensation, hybrid-work, and flexible work times.
- Exciting challenge and good development opportunities in a constantly growing, international team.
- Freedom to develop your own ideas and thus make an active contribution to the success of our company.

**Our Process**:

- Initial call to align expectations
- MS Teams Interview with the hiring manager
- Onsite interview and task presentation with the specialist department

**Contact**:
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

**About us**:
At Arethia, we fuse our long-standing reputation with a continual push for progress. A rapidly expanding player in the flavour industry, Arethia specialises in delivering innovative taste solutions and co-creating products that consumers love. For more than 70 years, Arethia has been known for its close collaboration with customers and the highest quality standards. With over 250 employees spread across Germany, Switzerland, Dubai, and Indonesia, we aim to shape the future of flavours with a culture that values agility, transparency, and talent.