Senior Marketing Manager - Beauty, Softlines & Fashion

About the Role & Team

At The Walt Disney Company, storytelling is at the heart of everything we do. In Disney Consumer Products we bring beloved stories and characters to live across a range of categories. We’re looking for a visionary marketing leader to develop campaigns for the critically important Fashion & Beauty segments to help inspire audience fans across the globe.

As a key member of our EMEA Disney Consumer Products Marketing & Communications team, you’ll lead the charge on developing and executing 360 marketing activity for new and established accounts to build brand relevancy, emotional connection with consumers and support commercial ambitions. If you’re passionate about fashion and beauty, fluent in omnichannel marketing, and ready to lead with creativity and purpose, this could be your next adventure.

This role will be based in our London Hammersmith office, 4 days a week, with either a Monday or Friday working from home

Values

You'll join a team grounded in our Disney values, acting with Integrity, welcoming everyone through Inclusion, embracing boundless Creativity, working together through Collaboration and caring deeply for our Community. These values shape how we work and how we support one another every day.

What You Will Do

• Craft and execute long-term marketing strategies for key Softlines accounts, aligned with commercial and franchise goals, that are globally aligned but regionally relevant
• Lead and inspire a team to deliver best-in-class campaigns that drive brand awareness, commercial growth, and cultural relevance whilst elevating consumer experience
• Collaborate with global and local teams as well as key stakeholders to support industry-led brand initiatives and seasonal collections, with Global accountability based out of EMEA
• Leverage consumer insights and key trend analysis to shape disruptive, industry-forward marketing plans that raise the bar and deliver strong ROI
• Creatively pitch and secure new licensees/retailers to support category growth and long-term planning
• Develop marketing activations that help to recruit new audiences by harnessing the power of our partners
• Manage day-to-day relationships with key accounts and ensure strategic alignment across all touchpoints
• Promote cross collaboration across wider lines of business to maximise overall impact of campaigns
• Own the marketing budget and forecasting for your accounts, ensuring maximum ROI and impact

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Extensive marketing experience within the fashion, beauty, lifestyle, sports, or luxury sectors—preferably as a specialist in any of these fields
• Highly strategic thinker with the ability to develop long-term plans aligned to commercial and franchise goals
• Possesses a global perspective while ensuring strategies are relevant to regional markets
• Innovative and fully up-to-date with current fashion, beauty, sports, lifestyle, and athleisure trends; skilled in digital/social marketing and experienced working with influencers/talent
• Deep knowledge of commercial business models, with proven ability to identify and optimize future growth opportunities, including leveraging partner opportunities and platforms
• Significant experience in pitching to new clients, licensees, and stakeholders
• Strong leadership capabilities, demonstrated through building and managing high-performing teams in fast-paced environments
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, able to engage effectively with multiple stakeholders at all levels
• Creative, collaborative, and personable, with a proven ability to network across the business
• Outstanding strategic approach to problem solving and innovation

The Perks

• 25 days annual leave
• Private medical insurance & dental care
• Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free
• Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
• Excellent parental and guardian leave
• Employee Resource Groups - WOMEN @ Disney, Disney Mosaic, Disney PRIDE, our disability & neurodiversity focused group - ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.