Fix Radio
FREELANCE FESTIVAL HEAD OF MARKETING REQUIRED
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FIX RADIO / FIXFEST
FREELANCE FESTIVAL HEAD OF MARKETING REQUIRED
Location: Remote (UK only)
Term: Part time (1 day a week) 10 month contract running from October 1st ‘26 to July 31st ‘27
Salary: Competitive fixed project fee commensurate with the role
Fix Radio is the Builders Station. A unique, award-winning, construction industry-focused, shining light in the radio industry, with over 720,000* listeners who listen for over (a massive) 31 hours a week (Nielsen Research Q2 2026). Our listeners have a deep emotional connection to our brand and we are at the centre of many of the hot topics within the trade and construction industries.
Fix Radio is successful, ground-breaking, ambitious, motivated, and dynamic, and has experienced rapid early years growth, gaining huge respect from our community along the way.
What is FixFest?
Part trade expo, part country fair, part music festival, FixFest is the UK’s only festival for tradespeople and their families. Our FixFest values and ambitions match those of our radio station.
Sponsored by Wickes TradePro and debuting in Sussex in 2025 before a move of site to Northampton for our 2026 follow up, acts so far have included (qualified plasterer) Dizzee Rascal, Ocean Colour Scene, Scouting For Girls, Sigma, Hard-Fi, Goldie Lookin’ Chain, Toploader, and more.
The festival has also included attractions such as The JCB Dancing Diggers, UK’s Strongest Man demos, Diggerland, chainsaw tree sculpting, a vast array of fun activities in the family zone, and dozens of tradestands. We also have three discussion zones that focus on key issues in the construction industry - The Bosch Inspiration and Innovation Zone, the Baxi Powerhouse (wellbeing & mental health), and the Wickes TradePro Tool Theft zone with each designed to provide educational and informative content to inspire our industry family.
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- www.fixfest.co.uk
- https://www.instagram.com/fixfestuk/
- FixFest 2026 Aftermovie
What we’re looking for
An experienced, high-achieving, dynamic freelance marketing team leader to develop our FixFest marketing strategy and manage the marketing budget to a set of agreed KPIs
Key Responsibilities
- You’ll head up a small team of freelance marketing specialists, responsible for executing your strategy. Their roles will cover the following disciplines:
- Paid Social Media and Digital planning
- Social Media content creation
- OOH planning and buying (Agency)
- PR
- B2B & customer comms
- Street Team promotion
- Graphic & Digital Design
- You will develop the strategy, lead the team, and constantly analyse the ROAS, reviewing and tweaking the strategy where necessary to achieve the KPIs as we progress.
- You will have responsibility for the festival’s marketing budget.
- Working with Fix Radio’s CEO and FixFest’s COO, you’ll need to immerse yourself in our radio brand to understand it, and completely buy into what we’re aspiring to achieve with FixFest.
- The 2027 date for the event is Saturday July 10th at Delapre Abbey in Northampton and you will be required to attend, setting the agenda for the videography, photography, social media content, and customer comms teams at the event.
Who are you?
Cultural fit is huge for us. So you’ll need to have a can-do attitude and be genuine, enthusiastic, confident but humble, and a great relationship builder.
You’re a planner - detailed, strategic, analytical, and with a first-class all-round understanding of multi-disciplined marketing.
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As a collaborative leader, with first-class communication skills, you are adept at clearly explaining your strategy to your team, and knowing how to get them to deliver it to clear deadlines. You set and review SMART objectives. They buy into you, your direction, and your management style, and in return, you empower them with the freedom to exhibit their skillset in the process.
You lead by example. You don’t ask your team to do anything you wouldn’t do.
You’re able to work fast, smart, and flexibly with no loss of quality.
Experience Required
- Ideally a track record of successfully marketing and growing an early-stage festival or event, or an annual programme of events. You understand the messaging and mechanisms that sell tickets.
- Or a minimum of 5 years experience as a media, events, entertainment, or construction business, marketing team leader.
- Your all-round marketing experience would ideally include:
- Everything digital - websites, e-shots, digital display, organic and paid for social media, etc.
- Social media influencers
- Partnership marketing
- Affiliate marketing
- Local, regional, and national media buying
- PR
- Out of home
- Print media
- Promo activity and immersion in the local community
- Promotion at trade exhibitions
- Radio (Don’t worry if you don’t - we’ve plenty of people that do!)
- A good eye for graphic design
However, we’re targeting a niche audience, so many of the normal festival routes to market might involve too much wastage. Therefore, we’ll absolutely encourage you to push forward your own ideas and to think outside of the mainstream marketing box.
Questions and / or applications including your CV should be sent to keith@fixradio.co.uk before 9am Tuesday 1st September 2026
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