Pentland Brands
Retail Marketing Manager - Kickers & Mitre
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About Us
We’re Pentland Brands: a global family business behind some of the world’s most iconic active and lifestyle brands. We bring integrity, energy, and ambition to our work, setting high standards and striving to deliver great outcomes without ego.
Shape the work behind some of the world’s most loved sport, outdoor, and lifestyle brands.
Sitting within the Brand Marketing team, this role is all about bringing Kickers and Mitre to life where consumers shop. You’ll connect our brand plans with our key retail partners, creating standout in-store and online activations that build visibility, strengthen our retailer relationships, and ultimately drive sell-through.
Working across two distinctive brands, from Kickers’ footwear and cultural heritage to Mitre’s position at the heart of football, you’ll have the opportunity to shape how both brands show up across some of their biggest commercial moments.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Own and deliver the Retail Marketing Plans for both Kickers and Mitre across key retail partners.
- Build strong relationships with retailer marketing teams, creating account-specific plans that increase visibility and drive sell-through.
- Lead retail activations across key moments including Back to School, seasonal launches, the FA Cup, and exclusive product drops.
- Bring campaigns to life across both physical retail and ecommerce, ensuring consistent and impactful brand execution.
- Work closely with Brand, Commercial, and external agency partners to deliver joined-up go-to-market activity.
- Manage retail marketing projects from initial brief through to execution, balancing priorities, budgets, and timelines.
- Own the retail marketing budget and work with Commercial and Finance to measure performance and demonstrate ROI.
- Brief and manage creative and external agencies across retail campaigns and activations.
- Support customer sell-ins and key retailer meetings with the Commercial team.
- Ensure retail partners receive the right product, ecommerce, and campaign assets on time, while supporting commercial tools, catalogues, and UK showroom execution.
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What You’ll Bring
- Strong experience in retail, trade, or shopper marketing, ideally within footwear, apparel, sports, or a consumer-led brand.
- Proven experience delivering successful retail activations across both in-store and ecommerce channels.
- Experience building productive relationships with major retail or wholesale partners.
- Strong understanding of visual merchandising and how brands win at the point of purchase.
- Excellent project management skills, with experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, agencies, and deadlines.
- Commercial awareness, with the ability to connect marketing activity to sales performance and ROI.
- Confident communication and stakeholder management skills across Brand, Commercial, and external partners.
- A proactive and adaptable approach, comfortable balancing long-term planning with fast-moving retail opportunities.
Why Pentland Brands?
Pentland Brands is the name behind some of the world’s best-known sport, outdoor, and lifestyle brands, including Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury, Endura, Ellesse, Kickers, and Mitre.
We are a global family business with a clear purpose: pioneering brands that make life better. Across our teams, functions, and locations, we work together to create products, experiences, and partnerships that help people live more active, confident, and positive lives.
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Joining Pentland Brands means becoming part of a business where your work can have real reach, across multiple brands, markets, teams, and disciplines. It is a place for people who want to contribute, collaborate, improve how things are done, and help build the future of brands with heritage, ambition, and global impact.
Perks & Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, discretionary bonus, hybrid working, flexible start and finish times, generous holiday allowance, product discounts, sample sales, enhanced family-friendly policies, healthcare support, gym and fitness discounts, cycle to work scheme, and electric car scheme.
You can find full details of our benefits and perks on our UK Benefits page.
The Interview Process
We want our interview process to feel clear, straightforward, and supportive. If your experience and expectations look like a strong match for the role, here’s what you can expect next:
- Talent Team Intro Call - A 30-minute video call with our Talent Team to get to know each other, talk through the role and your experience, and answer any questions you have.
- Experience Interview - A more in-depth interview (usually online) with the hiring manager to explore your skills, experience, and approach, and how these align with the role, our principles, and our ways of working.
- Final Interview - A final in-person interview at our office, focused on deeper discussion and practical application, giving you the chance to meet more of the team and see Pentland Brands in action.
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