Marketing and Business Development – Head of Growth (London or Colchester)

We are currently recruiting for this role. It will begin in 2021.  If you are interested, please send an email to careers@footprintdigital.co.uk and include your CV as an attachment.

We are on a journey. Be part of it.

At Footprint Digital we believe there is nothing you can’t achieve. We help itchy, driven, ambitious and frustrated £1-20 million turnover businesses ‘join the dots’ and make more money online through performance marketing services such as SEO, PPC, Conversion Rate Optimisation and Analytics. We support our team to do the best work of their career and to learn, play and grow.

We have grown from 2-17 members of our team and from 0 revenue to £1million in 3 years. Along the way we have picked up work from brands such as Legal and General, Itsu and Huawei. Our ambitions are huge. In order to achieve them, we want exactly the right sort of people to join us and share in our vision. In order to achieve faster, sustainable and profitable growth we plan to be more intentional in our approach to growth minded brands. That is where you come in…

Head of Growth Role

We love our clients and want the best for them. Relationships are at the core of everything we do at Footprint Digital. We work hard to build exceptional relationships with our clients. This role is where it all starts.

Your role as the Head of Growth is to initiate and oversee the entire customer acquisition pipeline so we can build more relationships with more clients. Taking the existing sales and marketing team of 7 under your wing you will spearhead our attack on growth minded brands so that we can expand the number of clients we support from 60 to 120. You will also develop strategies that enable us to deepen our relationships with our clients through the addition of new services.

This will achieve the overall goal of growing the company from £1million to £4million in 3 years.

Where will I work?

Under current COVID-19 guidance our team are working from home. We are a very close knit supportive team and we really miss spending time together! In time we will phase back into a co-working office space in both London and Colchester. You will have the choice of which office you would like to join.

What you need

Successful applicants for the role must share our values.

The holder of the role will be expected to come to the role with experience from the agency world. They will have exceptional presentation delivery skills, emotional intelligence, rapport building skills and project management skills alongside the ability to spot opportunities and ultimately generate leads.

Exceptional Training and Career Development Opportunities

We provide exceptional training on the details of Digital Marketing so you can conduct meetings with confidence. Check out the Digital Marketing Executive Course for an idea of the syllabus we take all employees through. There’s also great room for career development. Footprint is growing fast and you could progress quickly.

How to Apply

To apply, please send an email to careers@footprintdigital.co.uk with your CV attached, or a note that details your academic achievements and wider interests including:

1. Your CV
2. Your strengths (what you’re good at)
3. Your interests (what you like to do outside of work – a work life balance is important!)

Please make it interesting and tell us the exceptional things you have achieved in your life so far and things you would like to achieve in the future.

We look forward to hearing from you.