Brand Manager - 9 Month FTC
Trainline
<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About us</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">At Trainline, our purpose is to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.thetrainline.com/terms/sustainability-faqs">empower greener travel choices, connecting people and places.</a> Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. </p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄 </strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re Europe’s leading independent rail platform, helping millions of travellers find and book the best-value rail and coach journeys across our app, website and partner channels.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our job is to make the green travel choice the best choice. By building a better train travel experience, we help more people choose rail - creating a positive impact for customers, our business and the planet.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re a team of more than 1,000 Trainliners from over 50 nationalities, working across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. Now is a brilliant time to join us and help shape the future of travel.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Introducing the Marketing Team 👋</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Trainline’s Marketing team is where brand strategy meets real commercial impact. We shape how millions of customers across Europe see, feel, and connect with Trainline - from the insight that informs our positioning to the creative that shows up in every campaign, channel, and customer touchpoint. We believe that a distinctive, well-managed brand is one of the most powerful commercial levers we have, and this team is responsible for making that case, and making it count.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As Interim Brand Manager, you will be the guardian and builder of the Trainline brand in your market - sitting at the intersection of strategy and execution. Reporting to the Head of Brand and Campaigns, you will work closely with Country Managers, agency partners, and cross-functional teams across commercial, product, and insight to ensure the brand shows up consistently and compellingly, wherever customers encounter us. This is a role for someone who can hold the thread from customer insight through to positioning, creative, and campaign delivery, without losing sight of the commercial outcomes that matter.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>In this role as the Interim Brand Manager, you will...🚄</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the brand marketing plan for your market end to end, translating customer insight into a sharp, differentiated proposition that is consistently expressed across every campaign and channel</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead the relationship with creative agencies, including briefing, reviewing, and constructively challenging work to ensure it meets a high standard of brand, proposition, and audience relevance</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Use brand tracking, customer research, and market data to shape positioning decisions and measure the impact of brand investment on commercial outcomes</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with Country Managers and commercial stakeholders as a peer, bringing brand-led opportunities and ideas to the table rather than waiting to be briefed</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Protect consistency of tone, identity, and customer experience across markets while adapting intelligently to local culture, seasonal patterns, and competitive context</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Run a tight campaign operation, managing timelines, dependencies, and quality across all brand activity so nothing falls through the cracks</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Stay close to customer perception and competitor positioning in your market, using that knowledge to sharpen messaging and identify opportunities for the brand to earn greater relevance</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Champion the value of a strong brand internally, connecting creative investment to commercial performance in a way that resonates with stakeholders who think commercially</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>We’d love to hear from you if you have...🔍</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Significant experience in a brand or marketing role that has spanned both strategic responsibility and hands-on campaign execution, ideally within a consumer brand, travel, platform, or e-commerce business</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A proven track record of owning brand marketing plans for a specific market or segment, including positioning, messaging, and brand health measurement</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong experience working with creative agencies - briefing confidently, reviewing critically, and pushing back on work to a high standard when needed</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">The ability to connect brand investment to commercial outcomes, with a solid understanding of business models and the levers that drive growth</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Demonstrable experience working cross-functionally with commercial, product, and senior stakeholders, operating as a genuine peer rather than a support function</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Proficiency in the language of your market, with a strong understanding of local culture and competitive landscape - ideally including fluency in the relevant language</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience using brand tracking, customer research, and market data to inform strategic decisions and demonstrate impact</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Creatively literate and opinionated about what good looks like, with the communication skills to articulate clearly why something is or is not working in terms of brand, proposition, and audience</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>More information:</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. </p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one! </p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do: </p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">💭 <strong>Think Big</strong> - We're building the future of rail </p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">✔️ <strong>Own It </strong>- We focus on every customer, partner and journey </p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">🤝 <strong> Travel Together</strong> - We're one team </p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">♻️<strong> Do Good</strong> - We make a positive impact </p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em">We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/trainline/">LinkedIn</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/lifeattrainline/">Instagram</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Working-at-Trainline-EI_IE249203.11,20.htm">Glassdoor</a>! </p><hr><p>Compensation: £45K – £50K</p><ul><li> • £45K – £50K</li></ul><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.co.uk/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in United Kingdom</a> on Arbeitnow</a>