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Marketing Strategy and Operations Director, EMEA

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The Marketing Strategy and Operations Director will align strategies with global growth, improve efficiency, and oversee cross-functional teams in developing marketing plans.
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About Us
SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact people's lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market, and developing one consumer product after another has allowed SharkNinja to enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than 3,600+ associates, the company's products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.
To continue fueling SharkNinja's growth, we have an exciting opportunity for a Marketing Strategy and Operations Director to join our team.
This role will be part of the global Shark Home marketing team, predominantly supporting countries across Europe as we expand into new territories and strengthen our position in legacy markets. Working cross-functionally, you will support the development of breakthrough marketing approaches that win with customers.
As a strategic marketing leader at Shark, you will play a critical role in aligning brand and business strategies to drive global growth, maximize margin, and reinforce brand positioning across all categories and regions. This role requires a dynamic leader who can seamlessly integrate cross-functional efforts across Marketing, Product, Sales, and Market teams to ensure unified planning, flawless execution, and robust performance tracking - all while remaining agile and flexible.
With a passion for innovation and continuous improvement, you'll champion a culture of marketing excellence that's recognized both internally and externally.
You will lead communication efforts from the marketing team to the broader business, creating a cohesive narrative through consistent reporting and engagement with country and category leads. This is a high-impact role for a transformative leader ready to shape the future of Shark's global marketing success.
This role will be responsible for inspiring the team to deliver our marketing objectives and drive sustainable success for the business.
What You'll Do:
  • Align brand and business strategy to ensure marketing and commercial efforts are directly tied to Shark's global growth, margin, and brand priorities across all categories and regions.
  • Integrate cross-functional execution: coordinating Marketing, Product, Sales, and Market teams to drive unified planning, delivery, and performance tracking.
  • Identify and embed better ways of working both within the marketing team and with cross-functional partners. Ensuring global efficiency as we scale into more regions.
  • Advise senior leadership on strategy. Serve as a thought partner to the CEO, shaping forward-looking growth plans and strategic priorities.
  • Lead in recognizing growth opportunities for Shark marketing, identifying consumer needs and wants for each of our markets and categories.
  • Be a leader of marketing best practice in the roll out of market expansion across new territories, working closely with Global teams to incorporate additional market insights.
  • Drive forward a regional marketing planning process which includes orchestrating the marketing inputs for half yearly and annual planning including budget proposals, headcount and being the point person in the team on timings.
  • Champion a breakthrough culture within the marketing department that is celebrated internally and externally.
  • Orchestrate the various updates required from Shark marketing back to the business, from weekly reporting to Exec Reviews so we create a consistent and joined up narrative. Working closely with country and category marketing leads to feed into this.
  • Actively use and advocate the use of enabling technology and the role of insight at the heart of decision making and tracking performance against goals.
  • Establish and embed new processes within regional and country marketing to drive greater integration and efficiencies.

What You'll Bring:
  • 10+ years proven experience in marketing at a senior level and be a skilled representative that is confident and keen to support high standard marketing execution.
  • Experience working in a global organisation, ideally including experience scaling into new countries.
  • Strong strategic marketing skills with an ability to constantly challenge the ordinary and do things bigger and better than ever before.
  • Solutions orientated including thinking outside the box to tackle complex organisational challenges.
  • A culture champion with the energy and enthusiasm to bring teams together and drive greater collaboration.
  • A recognised and respected Senior marketing practitioner earned through previous experience and success.
  • A multi-tasker that can switch between strategy and tactics.
  • A confident relationship builder that seeks to further connections to deliver to all areas of the business
  • Excellent at communicating and have the ability to work well alone, as well as with different departments across the business
  • A strategic and commercial thinker, able to make recommendations with business KPIs in mind
  • Eligible to work in the UK and willing to travel as required

Our Culture
At SharkNinja, we don't just raise the bar-we push past it every single day. Our Outrageously Extraordinary mindset drives us to tackle the impossible, push boundaries, and deliver results that others only dream of. If you thrive on breaking out of your swim lane, you'll be right at home.
What We Offer
We offer competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more. We empower your personal and professional growth with high impact Learning Programs featuring bold voices redefining what's possible. When you join, you're not just part of a company-you're part of an outrageously extraordinary community. Together, we won't just launch products-we'll disrupt entire markets.
At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja's innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.
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We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other class protected by legislation, and local law. SharkNinja will consider reasonable accommodations consistent with legislation, and local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact SharkNinja People & Culture at accommodations@sharkninja.com

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