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About the Role

We are seeking a Head of Marketing Strategy & Operations to serve as the commercial and operational engine for the Moonpig UK Marketing team. This leadership role focuses on connecting strategy to execution, ensuring the marketing organization is focused, efficient, and capable of delivering outstanding results. You will lead planning cycles, manage the marketing budget, enhance performance visibility, and establish the systems, processes, and operating rhythms necessary for best-in-class marketing across key seasonal and everyday campaigns. Collaborating with Brand, Campaigns, PR, Social, Performance Marketing, CRM, Creative, Analytics, and Research teams, you will help shape marketing operations at scale, ensuring decisions are informed by insight, performance, and commercial impact.

Responsibilities

Lead annual and quarterly UK marketing planning cycles, aligning activity across Brand, Campaigns, PR, Social, Performance Marketing, CRM and Creative teams.
Build and maintain the full UK marketing calendar, including monthly campaigns, seasonal peaks, major events and product launches.
Own the UK marketing budget, including forecasting, spend allocation, tracking and optimisation.
Develop unified performance dashboards covering traffic, new customer acquisition, brand health and media efficiency.
Partner with Analytics and Research teams to evolve attribution, incrementality and performance measurement methodologies.
Lead post-campaign reviews, translating insights into actions that improve future planning, creative effectiveness and commercial performance.
Present regular marketing performance updates to the UK Leadership Team and Group CMO.
Own campaign workflows, briefing processes, approval frameworks and operating rhythms that support effective campaign delivery.
Drive collaboration across internal marketing functions and external agency partners.
Maintain and evolve the Moonpig Marketing Playbook, defining how major campaigns and peak trading moments are planned and executed.
Manage marketing planning, reporting, project management and performance tools to support operational excellence across the function.

Requirements

Significant experience in marketing strategy, operations, planning or performance focused roles.
Proven success operating within a multi-channel marketing or ecommerce environment.
Strong commerciality with experience managing budgets, forecasting and Marketing investment decisions.
Ability to translate complex data into clear insights and actionable recommendations.
Experience building and improving reporting frameworks, dashboards and performance measurement approaches.
Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence at all levels of the organisation.
Strong organisational and project management capabilities, balancing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated experience creating efficient processes, operating models and ways of working that improve team effectiveness.
Collaborative approach with a passion for bringing teams together around shared goals.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity, focus and accountability.

Location

London Farringdon

Work Type

Hybrid

Benefits

Competitive Pay & Bonuses
Generous pension plans
Staff discounts
Private healthcare (UK)
Mental health support
Dog-friendly offices (London & NL)
Generous holidays
Hybrid working (1-3 days in office, depending on role/team)
Up to 20 days of international working
Learning allowances
Coaching & development programs

About the Company

We’re the Moonpig Group – home to Moonpig, Greetz, Red Letter Days and Buyagift – and we’re on a mission to make people feel loved, celebrated and remembered.
We’re proud to be leading the online gifting revolution, with brilliant products, clever tech and a whole lot of heart.
Our platform makes it easy to create moments that matter – packed with personal touches and delivered with care.
We’re not just about selling cards or gifts – we’re here to spread joy, spark smiles and make every celebration feel extra special.
With values that guide how we work and support one another, we’ve built a place where people (and ideas) can truly thrive.
We trust our colleagues to do what’s right and offer flexibility to support a balance between work and life.
Face-to-face office time is an important and expected part of working at Moonpig Group.
We believe regular in-person working supports collaboration, alignment, and effective decision-making.

Equal Opportunity

At Moonpig Group, we’re all about creating a workplace where everyone feels they truly belong.
We celebrate what makes each of us unique, whether that’s our background, how we work best, or what matters most to us.
From working parents who need flexible hours to neurodiverse colleagues with specific working styles, we’re here to support our people in ways that work for them.
Because when you feel valued and included, you can thrive, and so can we.
We’re proud to have a number of employee-led groups driving this forward, including our LGBTQ+, Gender Balance, Neurodiversity and EMBRACE (Educating Myself for Better Racial Awareness and Cultural Enrichment) communities, plus our Group-wide EDI committee.
These teams help make sure every voice is heard and every idea has a place.
We know that diversity fuels creativity, innovation and connection, and that’s why we’ll keep pushing for progress.
Together, we’re building a culture where everyone feels safe, supported, and free to be their brilliant, authentic selves.
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