Head of Marketing

Fastmarkets is looking for an experienced marketing leader to join our team in Sofia as Head of Marketing. This is a newly created role that sits at the heart of our marketing operation – the engine room between strategy and delivery.

You'll manage and develop a team of at least four based in Bulgaria and London, overseeing the day-to-day planning, execution, and performance of marketing campaigns across our events portfolio. Working closely with the senior marketing team you'll translate marketing strategy into well-run, high-quality campaigns that go out on time, on brief, and are tracked and reported on rigorously.

As a member of the Events Leadership Team, you'll bring the marketing perspective into senior events planning conversations, ensuring campaigns are aligned with commercial priorities and event delivery timelines. You'll work in close partnership with the Events Production Director to keep both sides of the operation joined up.

A key part of this role is building a more joined-up marketing campaigns operation. Over time, you'll work to align our events marketing and digital marketing teams around shared standards for campaign delivery and reporting – ensuring best practice is embedded across both functions, campaigns are executed effectively and on time, and marketing activity consistently delivers against our commercial targets.

Principal Accountabilities

Campaign management & delivery

• Own the day-to-day project management of marketing campaigns from planning through to execution and post-campaign analysis
• Ensure campaigns are delivered on time, on budget, and to a high standard – maintaining quality control across all outputs
• Serve as the central point of coordination across the team, keeping stakeholders informed and projects on track

Team leadership

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of marketing professionals based in Bulgaria and the UK
• Set clear priorities, support career development, and build a high-performing, collaborative team culture

Reporting & performance

• Track and report on campaign performance, providing clear and consistent updates to the Director of Marketing and, where relevant, the Managing Director of Events
• Identify what's working, flag what isn't, and recommend improvements based on data

Stakeholder management

• Act as the connector between senior strategy and team-level output – translating direction clearly and escalating issues appropriately
• Work closely with the Events Production Director to ensure marketing activity and event delivery are tightly aligned
• Manage internal stakeholders effectively, ensuring alignment and timely sign-off across campaigns

Events leadership

• Participate as a full member of the Events Leadership Team, representing marketing in senior planning and decision-making conversations
• Ensure the marketing function is responsive to the commercial and operational priorities set by events leadership

Cross-team integration

• Work with the Director of Marketing to progressively integrate events and digital marketing workflows
• Support the development of a more holistic, channel-joined customer journey

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Essential

• Proven B2B marketing experience at a senior level, with a track record of managing and delivering campaigns across multiple channels
• Strong project management skills – organised, process-driven, and comfortable managing multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Solid understanding of digital marketing channels, particularly email, paid media, and SEO
• Experience managing and developing a marketing team
• Clear, confident communicator who can operate between strategic direction and operational delivery, and hold their own in senior leadership conversations
• Data-literate, with experience tracking and reporting on campaign performance

Desirable

• Experience in or strong familiarity with events marketing
• Exposure to marketing in a subscription, data, or B2B information services environment

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
   
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
   
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
   
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
   
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
   
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.