Social Marketing Manager

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 per year + share options

Location: Slough, Berkshire (hybrid - 1–2 office days a week)

Job type: Full-time

SOCIAL MARKETING MANAGER.

We have momentum - Help create a cult brand.

Slough | Hybrid: 1–2 office days a week | c. £55,000 + share options

We've made it onto the shelves of thousands of stores, and into online marketplaces. Now help make Zombie a shopping-list obsession.

We're Zombie. We make monstrously fruity snacks that kids love, and parents feel good about buying.

With growing distribution across Tesco and Sainsbury's, award-winning products, bold packaging and an awesome pipeline of new products, we've got serious momentum.

Now we want more people to discover us, try us, come back for more and tell their friends. That's where you come in.

We're looking for a creative, social-first Marketing Manager who knows how to make a brand impossible to ignore. Someone who can come up with original ideas, create entertaining content, build a passionate community and turn that attention into genuine consumer demand.

Our ambition? To be a big player in the category. A brand that entertains, that people actively seek out, feel part of and enthusiastically recommend.

Your mission: grow the Zombie uprising.

• Make us impossible to ignore. Dream up and personally create original, funny, shareable content that brings Zombie's distinctive personality to life. Instagram will be your main playground, with parents and adult shoppers your primary audience.
• Give people reasons to come back. Build an engaged community of Zombie fans who love the brand, buy our products and spread the word. We're interested in genuine engagement and loyalty, not just follower counts.
• Recruit the horde. Find and develop relationships with creators, ambassadors and fans who can produce brilliant, authentic content and champion Zombie.
• Turn attention into demand. Use paid social to amplify great creative ideas, test different messages and content, and learn what drives awareness, trial and sales. You'll be confident managing Meta campaigns yourself.
• Bring it all together. Connect social, creators, paid advertising, consumer engagement and targeted activations into marketing that builds a distinctive brand and gets more Zombie products into shopping baskets.

You'll work closely with our founder, with real freedom to shape ideas and bring them to life. This is a hands-on role: you'll be creating content and delivering campaigns yourself, supported by specialist freelancers across design, influencers, gaming and web development.

The brains we're looking for

• You're a creative, social-first marketer who knows how to make people stop scrolling, laugh, share and fall in love with a brand.
• You can show us brilliant content you've personally created, including short-form video, and know how to use Meta advertising* to amplify great ideas and deliver results.
• You're hands-on, commercially curious and love turning ideas into action.
• Challenger-brand experience will help. Food and drink, beauty, nutrition, pet care… we're open to different consumer categories and both DTC and omnichannel backgrounds.
• Above all, bring humour, initiative and the energy to thrive in a small, ambitious team.

\* We can build Meta skills if it's a development need

The juicy bits

Real ownership, creative freedom and agility. Plus share options, 24 days' holiday, company pension, bespoke marketing training and 10 working days a year to work from abroad.

Ready to help build a brand people can't stop talking about?

Apply through LinkedIn or contact Adrian Dalby at New Chapter Consulting with your CV and a short introduction.

New Chapter Consulting are our exclusive recruitment partners for this appointment. CVs sent directly to Zombie by recruiters will be redirected to Adrian Dalby at New Chapter Consulting.