Marketing Director Scandinavia - Wolters Kluwer

We are looking for a Marketing Director to lead our Scandinavian Marketing organization. You are an experienced leader of Marketing with strong experience from B2B and Digital Marketing, in international environments. As the Marketing Director of Scandinavia, you will be a member of our Scandinavian management team.

You are an organized, proactive leader with the ability to apply an agile approach to leading a team of nine direct reports of country marketing managers and marketing specialists (currently they are based in Gothenburg, Copenhagen, and Oslo). Your area of expertise is Marketing, but you also have experience and knowledge from other aspects of business.

Your work location will be Gothenburg (preferred), alternatively Oslo or Copenhagen

Role description

This is a full-time position that reports to the Scandinavian Managing Director. You are responsible to lead your team and execute, all our operational marketing as well as lead our strategic evolution, ensuring that the marketing function and team evolves and grow.

You will: 

• Lead and manage the Scandinavian marketing function to deliver customer value by developing and releasing the full potential of the people in your team?.
• Nurture an agile and collaborative culture within the team and across borders and practice a leadership style that builds trust & engagement
• Drive change and evolution for Scandinavian Marketing, selecting the best initiatives in collaboration with our Management Team and your Marketing Team, ensuring improved capabilities and results.
• Maximize business value of our marketing activities

Some of your key responsibilities will be:

• Lead & Coordinate Scandinavian Marketing Team
• Define, develop and execute our Marketing strategy?
• Budgeting and follow up of promotion cost for Scandinavia
• Drive evolution of digital marketing capabilities
• Facilitate our business to deliver customer value
• Lead generation process, ensuring to drive sales and revenue growth
• Brand perception & Actions
• Manage relationships with external partners and internal stakeholders
• Monitor industry trends and behaviors.
• Ensure that we drive and execute Go-To-Market Plans for launch of new products (supported by specialist)

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor´s degree in business, marketing, or communications
• Minimum 6 years of experience in marketing (preferably B2B, Software)
• Minimum 4 years of leadership experience, leading people formally (preferably in Marketing) and being part of a Management Team
• Strong leadership and management capabilities, working in a matrix organization
• Experience of, and full understanding of digital marketing (MA, Web, CRM, SoMe, Metrics, Content, etc)
• Experience from lead generation in B2B
• Has some industry experience and/or knowledge of Tax & Accounting (Redovisning & Revision)
• Capable of handling multiple tasks with competing priorities under minimal supervision
• Highly organized, results oriented and solution-focused
• Native in 1 Scandinavian language and advanced level of English
• Exceptional influencing & communication skills, both verbal and written
• Highly proficient with Microsoft (Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

The ideal candidate is:

• Able to think critically and exercise independent judgment and discretion
• Technologically savvy and resourceful
• Learning attitude and a sense of urgency

The offer

Working in a global and solid company but still have a major impact at the local business. Leading a dynamic and engaged multi-functional team. Being part of an exciting journey in an industry with big changes ahead. Competitive benefits and terms. You will work in a team of dedicated, professional, and nice colleagues.

How to apply

In this recruitment process Wolters Kluwer are cooperating with Jurek Rekrytering och Bemanning. We look forward to receiving your application (CV and personal letter) at www.jurek.se. If you only have an Swedish CV at hand, you can add an English CV later on in the process. For any questions, please reach out to the responsible at Jurek, Cajsa Malm at cajsa.malm@jurek.se  or Martina Alexandersson at martina.alexandersson@jurek.se. We do not accept applications through email.

We look forward to your application!