Marketing Executive

MARKETING EXECUTIVE

LOVE SUM · Reading + hybrid · Full-time

Hello there. Here for the dumplings? Funny how a job search can make you hungry.

We’re a food start-up making fresh, chilled dumplings here in the UK. Our co-founder, MasterChef finalist Sandy Tang, creates every recipe.

You’ll already find us in Sainsbury’s, Ocado and other retailers. You might even have spotted Sandy on Dragons’ Den, where Peter Jones offered to invest.

We want to make room for dumplings in fridges across the country. To help us get there, we’re looking for a Marketing Executive to join our new CMO as the second person in marketing.

There’s plenty to get your teeth into. You’ll help shape ideas, make things happen and see your work out in the world. On someone’s feed. On a supermarket shelf. Occasionally on a tote bag.

🔸 WHAT YOU’LL GET INVOLVED IN

Brand & campaigns

Come up with ideas, turn them into briefs and work with the right people to get them made and live.

Social & content

Help make Love Sum worth following. Come up with ideas, create and commission content, get it out there and keep the conversation going. Pay attention to what people respond to and bring your own ideas for what we do next.

Creators, influencers & brands

Find people we should work with and help make those relationships happen, from first hello through gifting, briefs and collabs.

Retail & shopper

Help us get noticed where people shop. Support launches, promotions, sampling and point-of-sale activity with our retail customers, in-store and online.

New products & packaging

Get involved from the early “what if?” through to design, artwork and launch. Help shape what people pick up and take home.

Creative production

Help coordinate creative work, from the brief to the finished piece. Bring a good eye and a few wild ideas, and help keep things moving.

Events, partnerships & merch

Help find the right opportunities, work out the details and get things made. Sometimes you’ll be there making it all happen, too.

Results

Look at what worked, what sold and what we should change. Have ideas. Try them. Pay attention to what happens.

🔸 A BIT ABOUT YOU

You’ve worked with consumer brands and you’re ready to get more involved.

You might be a Marketing Executive or Assistant Brand Manager in FMCG, food and drink or another consumer business.

Or an agency Senior Account Executive or Account Manager who fancies getting properly involved in one brand. Ours, ideally.

You understand social and digital. You can write, have a good eye and care about the details. You’re organised enough to keep a few things moving, comfortable with numbers and curious about what makes someone actually buy.

You like trying things and learning what works. You’re interested in new technology and AI, and where they might be useful.

You can get on with things independently, ask for help when you need it and lend a hand when someone else does.

Experience in food and drink, grocery, content, shopper marketing, new products, packaging or creative production would all be useful.

All of it? We’d be surprised. We don’t expect you to arrive knowing everything.

🔸 THE SMALL-TEAM BIT

You’ll work directly with our CMO, whose experience spans agency and brand roles, and with the founders on some projects. You’ll have support and encouragement to take ownership.

Some projects will be yours. Some will be shared. Occasionally, everyone will be carrying boxes.

Things can move quickly here. You’ll get to see an idea through, learn from what happens and have a say in what comes next.

🔸 THE PRACTICAL BIT

Full-time, with four days a week together in our Reading office and one working from home.

We want the right person. We’ll make sure the salary reflects that.

🔸 SOUND LIKE YOUR THING?

Apply with your CV and a short letter. Tell us why this role caught your eye and about something you’ve helped make happen.

Use AI if you like. Just make sure the letter sounds like you and the thinking is yours.

We want everyone to have a fair chance to show us what they can do. If there’s anything we can do to make the application process work better for you, just let us know.

We’ve told you a bit about us. Your turn. 🥟