This is the first dedicated B2B marketing leadership role at Zopa and an opportunity to build a new capability for Zopa for Business. Working in close partnership with leaders across Product, Commercial and Marketing, this person will build on the foundations already in place: Product Marketing support for launches, a consolidated proposition and website, early content and social activity, with Sales enablement support.
The role covers the Zopa for Business portfolio, with a primary focus on Retail Finance and Payments, alongside Partnerships and Auto Finance. It owns the marketing strategy and operating direction needed to turn our early momentum into repeatable commercial growth.
This is a role with real depth: multi-faceted propositions, longer sales cycles, multiple decision makers and routes to market spanning direct mid-market and enterprise sales, partner-led SME distribution and strategic partnerships.
The function will be AI-centric by design. AI should remove much of the execution burden and accelerate output, but it does not replace strategic prioritisation, proposition judgement, creativity, senior stakeholder alignment or accountability for commercial outcomes.
This person will set the direction, build the capability and stay close to delivery, with success measured by the commercial outcomes Marketing creates.
Define the B2B marketing strategy, priorities, annual plan and budget, translating agreed Commercial and Product priorities into a focused marketing plan.
Use customer, market and competitive insight to identify the sectors, audiences and opportunities where Marketing can have the greatest impact.
Build an integrated demand engine across awareness, consideration and nurturing enquiries through to an agreed Sales handover, with Sales owning qualification, opportunity progression and the commercial relationship.
Own partner, channel and strategic partnership marketing, working with Commercial and Product to develop the positioning, proof and go-to-market activity needed to create demand at scale.
Create coherent buyer and partner experiences, working closely with Product Marketing on propositions, positioning, launches and high-value Sales and partner enablement.
Build and lead a growing B2B marketing function in an early-stage environment, setting clear priorities, building capability and establishing the operating rhythm and accountability needed to scale.
Develop an AI-centric operating model across research, insight, campaigns, content, production, reporting and workflow. Develop the team’s AI capability and scale use cases that measurably improve quality, speed, commercial performance or productivity.
Establish measurement that leadership can trust, connecting marketing activity to qualified demand, pipeline, partner growth, conversion and revenue.
Significant B2B marketing experience across complex or considered propositions involving multiple decision-makers and longer Sales cycles.
Experience building or scaling a demand engine across direct and partner-led channels, connecting awareness and consideration to Sales opportunities and commercial outcomes.
Experience working closely with Product Marketing, with the ability to balance strategic proposition and go-to-market thinking with hands-on campaign management and Sales-related motions.
Experience leading integrated marketing plans and budgets across campaigns, content, customer proof, digital, partnerships and Sales activation.
A commercial approach to measurement and attribution, with the ability to explain Marketing’s contribution and use evidence to prioritise investment.
Practical experience using AI and automation to improve insight, execution, measurement or team productivity, alongside the judgement to know where human expertise remains essential.
Experience leading and developing a team and working effectively with agencies, specialists and cross-functional partners.
Experience in financial services, payments, lending, embedded finance, fintech or another regulated industry would be helpful, but is not essential.
Strong strategic judgement and commercial awareness, using customer insight, data and market context to create focus and make clear trade-offs.
Holistic thinking about the buyer and partner experience, connecting work across Commercial, Product and Marketing while maintaining clear ownership.
Curiosity and pragmatism about AI, continually testing how emerging tools can improve outcomes without adopting technology for its own sake.
Leadership through others, building capability and accountability while staying close enough to delivery to maintain momentum and quality.
Clear and compelling communication, with the ability to simplify complexity for customers, partners, Sales teams and senior stakeholders.
Success will be measured through commercial impact and the capability built around it:
A stronger market presence that improves conversion and supports shorter Sales cycles.
More qualified businesses and partners entering the funnel and progressing into Sales opportunities.
Greater partner activation, enabling growth without adding Sales capacity one for one.
Clear visibility of Marketing’s contribution to pipeline, partner growth and revenue.
AI embedded into day-to-day Marketing, delivering measurable improvements in speed, quality, insight and productivity.
Progress will then be tracked against an agreed leadership scorecard spanning search and discovery visibility, website traffic, enquiries and demo requests, meetings held, Sales-accepted pipeline opportunities and marketing-sourced revenue - with clear baselines from day one.
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