Marketing Manager UK

Auctionet is a marketplace where auction houses from Sweden, Great Britain, Finland, Spain, Germany, and Denmark sell furniture, art, design objects, collectibles, and much more. We are now looking for a Marketing Manager UK who wants to be part of our team and help make Auctionet a known, trusted and commercially relevant name in the UK.

About The Role

You will execute Auctionet’s marketing in the UK end to end and be the local face of our Stockholm-based marketing team. Working closely with UK sales and our Managing Director UK, you will turn the UK go-to-market plan into real activity on the ground. The goal: when we approach an auction house, they already know who we are. And when a house goes live, local buyers are already bidding.

We are looking for a commercially minded marketer who is comfortable being the only marketing person in a market. You’re close enough to sales to carry a pipeline conversation, hands-on enough to put up a poster and run an event, and structured enough to work through specialists and agencies in another country.

Your responsibilities will include

• Building and running account-based marketing programmes for the UK auction houses, combining event marketing, out-of-home and LinkedIn campaigns aimed at owners and decision-makers
• Planning and delivering UK events, from intimate dinners and valuation days to our annual UK summer event
• Building local buyer demand(B2C) around each auction house through out-of-home, local print and geo-targeted Meta and Google campaigns, together with our performance team
• Developing local partnerships with interior designers, artists, collectors and creators, and growing them into recurring activations
• Adapting Auctionet’s brand, tone of voice and campaigns to the UK market together with our Brand and Content team
• Executing the UK marketing budget and KPIs together with the CMO, and reporting on pipeline contribution, local bidder growth and event outcomes
• Briefing and managing local suppliers across PR, print and outdoor, event production and photography
• Feeding UK market insight, competitor moves and trends back into our plans and value proposition

This role is based in the Bath/Bristol area, with the possibility to work remotely one day a week. Ideally you work four days a week from our Bath office. The role includes extensive travel within the UK and occasional visits to our HQ in Stockholm.

About The Team

You will be part of Auctionet’s Marketing team, which mainly sits in Stockholm. You report to our CMO and work closely with our Managing Director UK and the UK sales team. Day to day, you’ll collaborate with colleagues in Partner Success and Data & Analytics, as well as with external UK agencies.

Auctionet has around 170 employees and is the parent company of a wider group with approximately 400 colleagues across multiple countries. Our main office is near Stureplan in central Stockholm, with logistics centers in Malmö, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Westbury, and Cologne.

About You

You’re someone who’s self-driven, commercially sharp and happy to roll up your sleeves. You’re comfortable with ambiguity and get energy from building something new with limited local infrastructure. You prioritise based on what moves the business, and you can explain why.

To succeed in this role, we think you have

• Proven B2B marketing experience, ideally account-based marketing in a long-cycle, relationship-driven sale
• Experience running events from concept to execution, both small formats and larger public events
• Hands-on experience with out-of-home and digital campaigns, including LinkedIn for B2B, outdoor, print and local media
• Strong knowledge of the UK market, including regional differences and the local media landscape
• An analytical mindset: you set relevant KPIs, follow them up and change course based on what the numbers show
• Excellent written and spoken English, and strong stakeholder skills across cultures, functions and locations
• A habit of using AI tools in your daily work, with good judgement about what to trust

Bonus and not mandatory

• Familiarity with the auction, art, antiques or interiors world
• Experience in B2B2C marketing
• Experience working as a local extension of a team based in another country.

Our Recruitment Process

We have a straightforward process without unpleasant surprises.

We'll start off with a short phone interview and greet just to get a feeling if we could be right for each other or not.

We then have a few meetings (usually two or three) where we talk about you, the role and Auctionet - and you get the chance to talk to the people you will work closely with. In the process, we will also ask you to do a small take-home exercise. And in the end, we hope it feels like the perfect fit for both of us!

Apply By

We will be reviewing applications continuously, but please submit your application no later than November 10th.

Who We Are

Auctionet was founded in 2011 by a team of people with unique experience of online auctions. Read more about Auctionet here.

In 2021 Auctionet acquired the auction house Stockholms Auktionsverk, and we are now by far the largest auction marketplace in the Nordics, and one of the larger auction marketplaces in the world. With this acquisition, Auctionet owns and operates both the oldest auction house in the world (1674) and the second oldest (1681), which means we have been working with sustainability for 350(!) years.

Join us in our vision to make valued objects accessible for everyone, from everywhere!