Head Of Marketing

Kilimanjaro Live is one of the UK’s leading live entertainment companies, delivering extraordinary experiences across live music, comedy, theatre, spoken word, and events. We are looking for a modern, digital-first, operationally excellent Head of Marketing to lead our marketing function, strengthen promoter and artist relationships, and ensure the delivery of high-performing campaigns that grow our audiences and revenue.

This role leads the end-to-end marketing function, ensuring that every show, tour, and project is delivered with excellence. You will drive digital innovation, bring rigour and structure to the department, and create a high-performing, empowered team.

Success in this role requires a calm, collaborative, organised, data-driven leader who can balance strategic vision with hands-on delivery in a high-volume, deadline-driven environment.

Director of Commercial Operations

A successful candidate will demonstrate:

A coaching-led, empowering leadership style

Skilled at delegation, developing people, and creating role clarity

Able to set vision, create structure, and hold others accountable without micro‑managing

Highly organised with immaculate attention to detail

Proven ability to run a smooth, process-led marketing function

Strong workflow, project management, and prioritisation skills

Reliable, consistent, and excellent at documenting and communicating plans

Comfortable managing dozens of concurrent campaigns in fast-moving cycles

Strong analytical capability: attribution, optimisation, dashboards, insight interpretation

Hands-on experience running or supervising digital performance campaigns

Comfort with emerging channels and new platform opportunities

Excellent stakeholder management with promoters, agents, managers, artists, and internal teams

Proactive, transparent communicator who keeps promoters fully updated

Skilled at managing both senior industry figures and junior team members with professionalism

8–12+ years of experience in entertainment or live events marketing, ideally UK live music

Proven success managing multi-channel campaigns with meaningful commercial outcomes

Experience overseeing agencies and contractors

Develop and deliver forward-thinking marketing strategies that drive ticket salesand audience growth

Ensure a clear, digital-first approach across all campaigns

Lead long-term departmental planning, innovation, and capability development

Lead, coach, and support the marketing team, establishing clear roles, goals, and expectations

Foster a culture of creativity, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Build a scalable structure and operating model for a high-volume environment

Oversee the planning, execution, optimisation, and post-analysis of all campaigns

Ensure every promoter receives timely, accurate marketing plans, updates, and spend reporting

Maintain consistent quality and brand standards across all outputs

Drive paid media performance and digital innovation

Establish dashboards and analytics frameworks enabling real-time optimisation

Ensure CRM, email, and automation programmes support conversion and engagement goals

Act as the primary marketing contact for promoters, agents, managers, artists, and senior internal leaders

Build strong cross-functional relationships with Ticketing, Finance, and Operations

Manage departmental budgets and promoter marketing P&Ls with commercial discipline

Oversee agency selection, briefing, evaluation, and performance

Implement and maintain marketing workflows, systems, calendars, and reporting

Ensure clear campaign documentation, promoter updates, and internal communication