Remote Position
Interim Marketing Director
🌍 Remote · New Zealand
💼 Full-time
Role Who you are
- You are experienced enough to make the final call in the room, and you bring energy, taste, and culture to everything you touch
- To be clear about scope: this role does not run performance marketing and does not own direct media budget
- Your job is brand leadership, strategy, and cross-functional orchestration—setting the direction and making sure the right work ships on time and on brand
- Senior marketing leader with strong product marketing chops and experience taking products to (and back to) market
- Hands-on CPG experience, ideally including a relaunch; comfort with retail and packaging
- Fluency in customer research and journey mapping, and a habit of letting insight drive decisions
- A true generalist who can own channel strategy, a marketing calendar, and a leadership narrative—and switch registers between them cleanly
- A strong cross-functional operator who builds trust fast with growth, retail, and creative partners
- Experienced enough to make the final call—and confident enough to make it quickly
- Bring the energy. You bring taste, energy, and point of view
- Culture-forward. You inject vibes and inspire the team, not just manage tasks
- Decisive. You've been around the block enough to make the final call and own it
What the job involves
- We're looking for an Interim Marketing Director to step in and steer Bobbie's brand marketing while our Marketing Director is on maternity leave
- This is a hands-on leadership seat, not a placeholder. You'll own our biggest brand initiative of the period, keep the marketing engine humming across channels, and be the connective tissue between brand, growth, and retail
- Co-lead our flagship product initiative, bringing deep product marketing craft to a CPG launch. Specifically, you'll:
- Product marketing: Own positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy—translating product truths into a story that resonates with parents
- CPG relaunch: Bring proven experience launching a consumer packaged goods product, sequencing the moments that build awareness and trial and thinking through brand touchpoints and cohesive messaging for the entire customer journey
- Packaging (retail): Guide packaging strategy and messaging with retail shelf impact and shopper behavior front of mind
- Customer journey & research: Ground the work in customer insight—map the journey, pressure-test assumptions with research, and let what you learn shape the plan
- Keep the broader marketing function moving with clarity and momentum:
- Marketing channel strategy: Set the strategic direction across brand channels and make sure each is pulling toward shared goals
- Leadership narrative: Partner with consumer data lead to deliver weekly insights and a clear brand narrative to leadership—connecting the dots between what's happening and what it means
- Marketing calendar ownership: Own the marketing calendar end to end, so the whole team knows what's launching, when, and why
- Channel owner cadence: Run bi-weekly 1:1s with channel owners to unblock, align, and raise the bar on the work
- Insights to content: Turn performance insights into sharper brand content—closing the loop between what the data says and what we make
- Black Friday/Cyber Monday Execution
- Own brand channel execution of Black Friday / Cyber Monday —bringing the campaign to life in a way that feels unmistakably Bobbie
- Serve as the primary point of contact between brand marketing and the growth marketing team and the retail team—keeping strategy, timing, and messaging in sync across all three
- Who You'll Oversee:
- You'll guide and support the following without micromanaging—setting direction, gut-checking the work, and empowering owners to run:
- Partnership Lead: Support with marketing strategy for each brand partnership
- Organic Social Oversight: Guide and gut-check the work
- HCP / Consumer Marketing Lead: Support the channel rollout of cross-functional strategy
- Creators Lead: Own brand messaging and drive data-driven creator briefs
- Marketing Lead: Partner on executing marketing strategy, track insights and results
- This is a fixed-term role covering a maternity leave of roughly six months
- It's remote-friendly. Note that this role does not carry direct media budget responsibility and does not run performance marketing—the focus is brand leadership and cross-functional strategy