Senior Marketing and Communications Manager

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Senior marketer launching ZOE’s gut-health science brand in Germany. Owning local PR, media relations, brand strategy, and commercial growth from market entry to scale.

Responsibilities:

  • Own total responsibility for ZOE’s Germany market entry, with approximately 75% focus on the German market and 25% on cross-market support
  • Act as the in-market growth strategist, partnering with Finance and briefing central Lifecycle and Performance teams on local commercial tests
  • Build relationships with Tier-1 German consumer, health, trade, and national journalists
  • Pitch stories, secure media coverage, and run product gifting and media events
  • Adapt ZOE’s science-led brand story for German consumers and create a bespoke market-entry strategy
  • Select, brief, and manage local PR freelancers, agencies, and brand ambassadors as required
  • Support cross-market science publications, product launches, and reactive press office work
  • Draft briefing documents, opinion pieces, press releases, and Q&As in German and English
  • Share EU market insights and playbooks across the organisation
  • Report directly to the GM of International Growth and partner with the Head of Global Comms
  • Deliver a German market-entry strategy, press network, commercial growth tests, campaigns, media placements, brand search growth, and a repeatable marketing playbook

Requirements:

  • Senior individual contributor with 5–10 years’ experience
  • 5–10 years’ experience launching or scaling a consumer brand in Germany
  • Experience ideally in health, wellness, nutrition, science, or consumer tech
  • Native or certified C2 German
  • Fluent C1/C2 English, the primary internal working language
  • Capability to localise complex scientific and health concepts with total precision
  • Strong existing relationships with German journalists
  • Proven track record of landing major press coverage
  • Commercial focus on brand search, web traffic, sign-ups, and agency efficiency
  • High autonomy and comfort operating without a local team
  • Basic familiarity with German health marketing regulations (HWG / EU Health Claims) and DSGVO is nice-to-have
  • Additional European languages are nice-to-have
  • Previous experience navigating a matrix remote organisation across UK/US time zones is nice-to-have
  • Must be eligible to work in the country of residence without requiring sponsorship

Benefits:

  • Equity
  • Remote-First Flexibility (work from home anywhere in Germany or UK)
  • Comprehensive Benefits Package
  • Direct Impact on expanding world-class health science into Europe
  • Streamlined 4-step hiring process
  • Average hiring process takes between 20 to 30 days
  • Equal opportunity employer
  • Reasonable accommodations during the interview process