Mercia Group
City, London
Head of Marketing Location: Hybrid - Can be worked from our London, Birmingham or Leicester office Salary: Competitive + benefits! Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent What We Can Offer You: 25 Days Annual Leave, Additional Holiday Purchase, Hybrid Working, Performance-Related Bonus, Life Assurance, Vitality Private Healthcare, Subsidised Gym Memberships, Cycle to Work scheme, Discount Vouchers and Access to Wellbeing Resources Why Do We Want You This is a role for someone who likes to be close to the business. You ll be part of Wilmington plc, but fully embedded in Mercia Group (part of the Wilmington plc) working alongside its leadership team, getting under the skin of its markets, and taking clear ownership of how marketing supports growth. You ll be Mercia s marketing lead and point of contact: setting direction, shaping priorities, and making sure the right support from our central marketing teams is focused on what matters most to the business. If you enjoy taking ownership, building strong partnerships, and having real influence over how a business goes to market, we d love to hear from you! Please note: To complete your application, you will be redirected to Wilmington plc s career site. At Wilmington plc, we celebrate individuality and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. As a Disability Confident employer, we shortlist all applicants who meet the essential role criteria and guarantee an interview for candidates with disabilities who meet these criteria. For reasonable adjustments or to apply under our interview guarantee scheme, please use the contact details provided once you have clicked apply ! As our Head of Marketing, you ll lead marketing for Mercia Group, taking clear ownership of how marketing supports its commercial goals. You ll be the only marketer embedded in the business, shaping strategy, setting priorities, and turning business objectives into focused marketing plans. By bringing strong commercial insight and clear direction, you ll help our central marketing teams deliver work that really supports Mercia s growth. You'll be responsible for: • Translating Mercia's objectives and growth ambitions into actionable marketing strategy and quarterly plans, with accountability for pipeline contribution, marketing ROI, and ongoing competitive analysis (including market positioning and win/loss patterns). • Identifying, quantifying, and building business cases for growth opportunities across new geographies, product launches (GTM), market expansion, customer segments, revenue streams, and marketing investment. • Partnering closely with Mercia's Managing Director, Sales, Product, Operations, and leadership teams to align priorities, review performance, understand customer and market dynamics, and uncover upsell and cross-sell opportunities. • Owning marketing engagement with strategic professional body partners, aligning joint objectives, commercial priorities, and shared reporting requirements. • Completing detailed, insight-led campaign planning briefs for central marketing teams, including commercial objectives, target personas, key messages, competitive positioning, success metrics, and channel strategy. • Working closely with the Director of Demand and Director of Content to ensure campaign strategy aligns with execution capabilities, best practices, and business priorities. • Tracking and analysing marketing performance using Mercia s dashboard, monitoring pipeline contribution, conversion rates, campaign ROI, cost per lead/opportunity, and competitor marketing activity. • Translating performance data into commercial insights, optimisation priorities, and actionable recommendations for central delivery teams. • Participating in quarterly website and digital journey reviews, identifying friction points, conversion barriers, and content gaps, and working with Web and Operations teams to prioritise improvements based on commercial impact. • Ensuring Mercia s digital customer journey, messaging, and positioning consistently reflect business priorities and competitive differentiation. What is the Best Thing About This Role You'll get real ownership and visibility. You ll be the marketing lead for Mercia Group, working closely with its leadership team and having a genuine say in where the business focuses its effort. There s a lot of freedom to shape the agenda, set priorities, and focus marketing on the areas that will make the biggest difference. You ll also have the backing of Wilmington s central marketing teams, so while you re the only marketer in the business, you re never working alone. You get the best of both worlds: autonomy within the BU, plus access to specialist skills and support when you need them. What is the Most Challenging Thing About This Role This isn t a role with a team to lead or direct control over resources. You ll need to work with central marketing teams, who support several business units, and help them understand why Mercia s priorities matter right now. That means being clear, persuasive and comfortable making trade-offs. To be successful in this role, you must have: • A strong background in B2B marketing with a demonstrable commercial track record, including measurable pipeline growth, ROI contribution, and experience translating business objectives into marketing strategy. • Proven experience in demand generation, content marketing, campaign measurement, marketing technology, performance analytics, and briefing/managing agency or internal teams. • Strong commercial acumen, including the ability to build business cases, justify marketing investment, understand sales processes, customer buying journeys, revenue models, and quantify market opportunities. • Strategic thinking capability, with experience in competitive analysis, market intelligence, identifying growth opportunities (geographic, product, or segment), and translating win/loss and performance insights into action. • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to influence and partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams (Sales, Product, Operations) without direct authority. • Strong communication and briefing skills, able to distil complexity into clear, focused direction and priorities. • Comfort operating as a solo marketer embedded within a business unit, while effectively leveraging central marketing resources, managing ambiguity, and balancing competing priorities. We know it s not a skill, but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the role s location by the start of their employment. About us Wilmington plc is a dynamic and expanding group of companies with a common aim turning knowledge into advantage. We provide information and training to professional business markets within the Risk & Compliance, Finance, Legal and Insight sectors. Our businesses enable professionals and their organisations to perform better by providing quality, relevant and reliable information, education and knowledge. We share ideas and successes across the group, harness shared resources and focus on our customers needs. Join us and do Work That Means Something At Wilmington plc, we help global customers to do the right business in the right way - providing trusted data, insights, and education to navigate the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) landscape. When you join us, you ll not only make a real difference for our customers, you ll also enjoy flexibility through hybrid working and benefit from a wide range of learning, career, and development opportunities. Whether you're just starting out, returning to work after a break, or looking to take your next step, you ll be doing work with meaning. Join us and make a real difference. Click on APPLY today!
Head of Marketing Location: Hybrid - Can be worked from our London, Birmingham or Leicester office Salary: Competitive + benefits! Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent What We Can Offer You: 25 Days Annual Leave, Additional Holiday Purchase, Hybrid Working, Performance-Related Bonus, Life Assurance, Vitality Private Healthcare, Subsidised Gym Memberships, Cycle to Work scheme, Discount Vouchers and Access to Wellbeing Resources Why Do We Want You This is a role for someone who likes to be close to the business. You ll be part of Wilmington plc, but fully embedded in Mercia Group (part of the Wilmington plc) working alongside its leadership team, getting under the skin of its markets, and taking clear ownership of how marketing supports growth. You ll be Mercia s marketing lead and point of contact: setting direction, shaping priorities, and making sure the right support from our central marketing teams is focused on what matters most to the business. If you enjoy taking ownership, building strong partnerships, and having real influence over how a business goes to market, we d love to hear from you! Please note: To complete your application, you will be redirected to Wilmington plc s career site. At Wilmington plc, we celebrate individuality and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. As a Disability Confident employer, we shortlist all applicants who meet the essential role criteria and guarantee an interview for candidates with disabilities who meet these criteria. For reasonable adjustments or to apply under our interview guarantee scheme, please use the contact details provided once you have clicked apply ! As our Head of Marketing, you ll lead marketing for Mercia Group, taking clear ownership of how marketing supports its commercial goals. You ll be the only marketer embedded in the business, shaping strategy, setting priorities, and turning business objectives into focused marketing plans. By bringing strong commercial insight and clear direction, you ll help our central marketing teams deliver work that really supports Mercia s growth. You'll be responsible for: • Translating Mercia's objectives and growth ambitions into actionable marketing strategy and quarterly plans, with accountability for pipeline contribution, marketing ROI, and ongoing competitive analysis (including market positioning and win/loss patterns). • Identifying, quantifying, and building business cases for growth opportunities across new geographies, product launches (GTM), market expansion, customer segments, revenue streams, and marketing investment. • Partnering closely with Mercia's Managing Director, Sales, Product, Operations, and leadership teams to align priorities, review performance, understand customer and market dynamics, and uncover upsell and cross-sell opportunities. • Owning marketing engagement with strategic professional body partners, aligning joint objectives, commercial priorities, and shared reporting requirements. • Completing detailed, insight-led campaign planning briefs for central marketing teams, including commercial objectives, target personas, key messages, competitive positioning, success metrics, and channel strategy. • Working closely with the Director of Demand and Director of Content to ensure campaign strategy aligns with execution capabilities, best practices, and business priorities. • Tracking and analysing marketing performance using Mercia s dashboard, monitoring pipeline contribution, conversion rates, campaign ROI, cost per lead/opportunity, and competitor marketing activity. • Translating performance data into commercial insights, optimisation priorities, and actionable recommendations for central delivery teams. • Participating in quarterly website and digital journey reviews, identifying friction points, conversion barriers, and content gaps, and working with Web and Operations teams to prioritise improvements based on commercial impact. • Ensuring Mercia s digital customer journey, messaging, and positioning consistently reflect business priorities and competitive differentiation. What is the Best Thing About This Role You'll get real ownership and visibility. You ll be the marketing lead for Mercia Group, working closely with its leadership team and having a genuine say in where the business focuses its effort. There s a lot of freedom to shape the agenda, set priorities, and focus marketing on the areas that will make the biggest difference. You ll also have the backing of Wilmington s central marketing teams, so while you re the only marketer in the business, you re never working alone. You get the best of both worlds: autonomy within the BU, plus access to specialist skills and support when you need them. What is the Most Challenging Thing About This Role This isn t a role with a team to lead or direct control over resources. You ll need to work with central marketing teams, who support several business units, and help them understand why Mercia s priorities matter right now. That means being clear, persuasive and comfortable making trade-offs. To be successful in this role, you must have: • A strong background in B2B marketing with a demonstrable commercial track record, including measurable pipeline growth, ROI contribution, and experience translating business objectives into marketing strategy. • Proven experience in demand generation, content marketing, campaign measurement, marketing technology, performance analytics, and briefing/managing agency or internal teams. • Strong commercial acumen, including the ability to build business cases, justify marketing investment, understand sales processes, customer buying journeys, revenue models, and quantify market opportunities. • Strategic thinking capability, with experience in competitive analysis, market intelligence, identifying growth opportunities (geographic, product, or segment), and translating win/loss and performance insights into action. • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to influence and partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams (Sales, Product, Operations) without direct authority. • Strong communication and briefing skills, able to distil complexity into clear, focused direction and priorities. • Comfort operating as a solo marketer embedded within a business unit, while effectively leveraging central marketing resources, managing ambiguity, and balancing competing priorities. We know it s not a skill, but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the role s location by the start of their employment. About us Wilmington plc is a dynamic and expanding group of companies with a common aim turning knowledge into advantage. We provide information and training to professional business markets within the Risk & Compliance, Finance, Legal and Insight sectors. Our businesses enable professionals and their organisations to perform better by providing quality, relevant and reliable information, education and knowledge. We share ideas and successes across the group, harness shared resources and focus on our customers needs. Join us and do Work That Means Something At Wilmington plc, we help global customers to do the right business in the right way - providing trusted data, insights, and education to navigate the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) landscape. When you join us, you ll not only make a real difference for our customers, you ll also enjoy flexibility through hybrid working and benefit from a wide range of learning, career, and development opportunities. Whether you're just starting out, returning to work after a break, or looking to take your next step, you ll be doing work with meaning. Join us and make a real difference. Click on APPLY today!
The Basic Ingredients Ltd
About The Basic Ingredients Established in 2018, The Basic Ingredients Ltd is a BRCGS Grade AA certified food company headquartered in London with a Dutch trading entity (The Basic Ingredients B.V., Rotterdam). Under our trademark brand Emma Basic, we specialise in clean-label ingredients for home cooking. Emma Basic promises: "Never Any Additives" - no emulsifiers, sweeteners, colourings, or ultra-processed elements such as refined oils. With a high-performing team of just ten, we generate annual revenues of just under £10 million across the UK, EU and Far East. We move fast, every team member has commercial impact, and you will work directly with the leadership team. You will be professionally trained, trusted, respected and appreciated. The Role We are looking for a CIMA-qualified Finance Manager to take ownership of our finance function across our UK and Dutch entities. This is a hands-on, commercially focused role. You will run the day-to-day finance operation, control cash and stock as our two largest balance-sheet items, challenge supplier costs, and partner with the Managing Director on the numbers that drive the business. Key Responsibilities Cash and working capital Lead the weekly cashflow meeting; prepare the rolling 13-week cashflow forecast and chair the supplier payment prioritisation discussion. Manage daily bank balances across UK and NL accounts; flag funding requirements early. Accounts payable and invoice challenge Critically review and challenge supplier invoices prior to MD authorisation - verify pricing against POs and contracts, identify overcharges, recover credits, and hold suppliers to agreed terms. Own the accounts payable process end-to-end, supervising the Assistant Accountant on invoice posting, payment runs and supplier statement reconciliations. Stock and asset management Own the integrity of stock as a balance-sheet asset across UK and NL: valuation, ageing, slow-moving and obsolete provisioning, write-offs. Lead monthly stock reconciliations between SAP, the warehouse and physical counts; investigate and resolve variances. Coordinate periodic stocktakes; partner with the Inventory Buyer on stock-turn analysis and working-capital efficiency. Reporting and statutory compliance Produce monthly management accounts and the monthly stock report, with commentary on variances and key drivers. Review and submit monthly UK VAT returns and other statutory returns; manage import duty calculations and HMRC correspondence. Lead year-end accounts preparation and act as the primary contact for our external accountants. Support the Dutch entity's reporting and ensure inter-company transactions are properly recorded and reconciled. Payroll and expenses Run monthly payroll and pension contributions; own the incentive pay calculations. Manage employee expense claims and company card reconciliations. Systems and controls Oversee daily bookkeeping and reconciliation across sales, purchase and expense ledgers in SAP Business One. Maintain and improve internal financial controls, particularly around invoice approval, payment release and stock movements. You may be required to undertake other duties from time to time as the Company may reasonably require. Key Requirements CIMA qualified. Hands-on experience with SAP Business One (or substantively similar SAP module). Proven track record of challenging supplier invoices, identifying overcharges and recovering credits within an accounts payable function. Demonstrable experience managing stock as a balance-sheet item, including reconciliations, provisioning and stocktake oversight. Strong working knowledge of UK VAT and import duty. Experience producing monthly management accounts to deadline. Exposure to Dutch reporting or familiarity with EU VAT regimes are desirable. What We Offer Basic annual salary of £50,000. Year-end bonus based on Company and personal performance. Personal development budget of £2,000 per year - books, courses, certifications and trade events. Workplace pension with 5% employer contribution. 30 days annual leave (in addition to UK bank and public holidays). Free supply of Emma Basic products for personal use.
About The Basic Ingredients Established in 2018, The Basic Ingredients Ltd is a BRCGS Grade AA certified food company headquartered in London with a Dutch trading entity (The Basic Ingredients B.V., Rotterdam). Under our trademark brand Emma Basic, we specialise in clean-label ingredients for home cooking. Emma Basic promises: "Never Any Additives" - no emulsifiers, sweeteners, colourings, or ultra-processed elements such as refined oils. With a high-performing team of just ten, we generate annual revenues of just under £10 million across the UK, EU and Far East. We move fast, every team member has commercial impact, and you will work directly with the leadership team. You will be professionally trained, trusted, respected and appreciated. The Role We are looking for a CIMA-qualified Finance Manager to take ownership of our finance function across our UK and Dutch entities. This is a hands-on, commercially focused role. You will run the day-to-day finance operation, control cash and stock as our two largest balance-sheet items, challenge supplier costs, and partner with the Managing Director on the numbers that drive the business. Key Responsibilities Cash and working capital Lead the weekly cashflow meeting; prepare the rolling 13-week cashflow forecast and chair the supplier payment prioritisation discussion. Manage daily bank balances across UK and NL accounts; flag funding requirements early. Accounts payable and invoice challenge Critically review and challenge supplier invoices prior to MD authorisation - verify pricing against POs and contracts, identify overcharges, recover credits, and hold suppliers to agreed terms. Own the accounts payable process end-to-end, supervising the Assistant Accountant on invoice posting, payment runs and supplier statement reconciliations. Stock and asset management Own the integrity of stock as a balance-sheet asset across UK and NL: valuation, ageing, slow-moving and obsolete provisioning, write-offs. Lead monthly stock reconciliations between SAP, the warehouse and physical counts; investigate and resolve variances. Coordinate periodic stocktakes; partner with the Inventory Buyer on stock-turn analysis and working-capital efficiency. Reporting and statutory compliance Produce monthly management accounts and the monthly stock report, with commentary on variances and key drivers. Review and submit monthly UK VAT returns and other statutory returns; manage import duty calculations and HMRC correspondence. Lead year-end accounts preparation and act as the primary contact for our external accountants. Support the Dutch entity's reporting and ensure inter-company transactions are properly recorded and reconciled. Payroll and expenses Run monthly payroll and pension contributions; own the incentive pay calculations. Manage employee expense claims and company card reconciliations. Systems and controls Oversee daily bookkeeping and reconciliation across sales, purchase and expense ledgers in SAP Business One. Maintain and improve internal financial controls, particularly around invoice approval, payment release and stock movements. You may be required to undertake other duties from time to time as the Company may reasonably require. Key Requirements CIMA qualified. Hands-on experience with SAP Business One (or substantively similar SAP module). Proven track record of challenging supplier invoices, identifying overcharges and recovering credits within an accounts payable function. Demonstrable experience managing stock as a balance-sheet item, including reconciliations, provisioning and stocktake oversight. Strong working knowledge of UK VAT and import duty. Experience producing monthly management accounts to deadline. Exposure to Dutch reporting or familiarity with EU VAT regimes are desirable. What We Offer Basic annual salary of £50,000. Year-end bonus based on Company and personal performance. Personal development budget of £2,000 per year - books, courses, certifications and trade events. Workplace pension with 5% employer contribution. 30 days annual leave (in addition to UK bank and public holidays). Free supply of Emma Basic products for personal use.
