Digital Marketing Manager (E-commerce)
Location: London or Birmingham, UK
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Work Arrangement: Office-Based
Experience Required: 6–8 Years
About Cake Craft
Cake Craft is one of the UK's leading online retailers specialising in cake decorating, baking supplies, baking tools, partyware, and celebration products. Serving hobbyists, home bakers, and professional cake decorators alike, CakeCraft offers an extensive range of products through its e-commerce platform and is committed to delivering exceptional customer experiences, industry-leading product selection, and continuous innovation within the baking and celebration market.
As we continue to grow, we are investing in building a best-in-class digital marketing function to accelerate customer acquisition, customer retention, brand growth, and online revenue across the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing e-commerce business and play a pivotal role in shaping its future digital marketing strategy and performance.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Digital Marketing Manager with a proven track record in e-commerce marketing. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and executing the company's digital marketing strategy while building and managing a dedicated in-house marketing team.
This is a hands-on leadership role requiring both strategic vision and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will have experience growing e-commerce brands, managing cross-functional marketing teams, and delivering measurable commercial results.
Role Overview
The Digital Marketing Manager will be responsible for developing and executing the overall digital marketing strategy for CakeCraft UK. The successful candidate will build processes, establish performance metrics, manage internal specialists, and drive sustainable growth across all digital channels.
The role requires a hands-on leader who can combine strategic thinking with operational execution and create a high-performing digital marketing department from the ground up.
While specialist resources will manage day-to-day SEO, content creation, email marketing, influencer marketing, and creative execution, the Digital Marketing Manager will provide strategic direction, operational leadership, and performance oversight across all functions. The role will focus on ensuring all marketing functions operate in a coordinated manner through structured planning, content governance, campaign management, and performance oversight.
Key Responsibilities
Digital Strategy & Growth
· Develop and execute Cake Craft's digital marketing strategy aligned with business objectives and revenue targets.
· Own digital marketing performance against revenue, customer acquisition, retention, and profitability goals.
· Identify opportunities to increase online visibility, customer engagement, and sales performance.
· Develop annual, quarterly, and monthly marketing plans aligned with commercial priorities.
· Drive sustainable growth through data-driven decision-making and continuous optimisation.
Content & Campaign Management
· Own the end-to-end content planning and campaign execution process across all digital channels.
· Develop and maintain an integrated marketing calendar to ensure consistent content publishing and campaign delivery.
· Coordinate seasonal campaigns, product launches, promotional events, and brand initiatives.
· Ensure alignment between SEO, content, email marketing, influencer activity, and commercial objectives.
· Establish content workflows, approval processes, and campaign management frameworks.
· Drive consistency in brand messaging, content quality, and customer communications across all customer touchpoints.
Team Leadership & Department Development
· Build and lead Cake Craft's digital marketing department from the ground up.
· Establish workflows, reporting structures, and performance standards.
· Build systems, processes, and governance required to scale the marketing function effectively.
· Foster a collaborative, performance-driven culture focused on continuous improvement.
· Support future recruitment and team expansion as the business grows.
Essential Requirements
· 6–8 years of digital marketing experience, preferably within an e-commerce or direct-to-consumer (D2C) environment.
· Minimum 3 years of experience in a leadership or managerial role.
· Proven experience managing and developing marketing teams.
· Demonstrated success in driving online revenue growth and customer acquisition.
· Strong understanding of digital marketing strategy, content management, campaign planning and execution, SEO, email marketing, influencer marketing, and conversion rate optimisation, with the ability to lead specialist teams across these functions.
· Experience creating marketing processes, workflows, reporting structures, and scalable operating models.
· Experience working with marketing analytics and performance reporting tools.
· Experience leveraging AI-powered marketing tools, automation platforms, and analytics solutions to improve efficiency, content production, customer engagement, and marketing performance.
· Commercially minded with a strong focus on ROI and business growth.
· Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and project management skills.
Preferred Experience
· Experience working within direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, e-commerce businesses, consumer products, FMCG, lifestyle, home décor, or home furnishings sectors.
· Experience managing multiple digital marketing channels and cross-functional marketing teams.
· Experience with Shopify or similar e-commerce platforms is advantageous.
· Hands-on experience with Klaviyo, Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, SEMrush, Ahrefs, and other digital marketing platforms.
· Experience building teams, processes, reporting frameworks, and scalable marketing functions from the ground up.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
The successful candidate will be measured on:
· E-commerce Revenue Growth
· Organic Traffic Growth
· Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI)
· Campaign Delivery & Execution Effectiveness
· Content Publishing Consistency
· Team Performance & Department Development
What Success Looks Like
Within the first 12 months, you will:
· Build a structured and scalable digital marketing function.
· Establish clear team structures, responsibilities, and reporting systems.
· Implement a consistent content and campaign planning process.
· Create a reliable publishing cadence across all key marketing channels.
· Improve alignment between SEO, content, email, influencer, and creative functions.
· Increase organic traffic, customer retention, and online revenue.
· Deliver measurable growth in e-commerce sales and profitability.
· Create a marketing operating model that supports the long-term growth of Cake Craft.
Why Join Cake Craft?
· Opportunity to build and lead a digital marketing department from the ground up.
· High level of ownership and autonomy.
· Direct impact on business growth and strategy.
· Work with one of the UK's leading e-commerce brands in the baking and cake decorating industry.
· Career progression opportunities as the business scales.
Location Requirement: This is a full-time office-based role. Candidates must be willing to work from either our London or Birmingham office.
Pay: £55,000.00-£65,000.00 per year
Application question(s):
- Do you have a minimum of 6 years of digital marketing experience within an e-commerce or direct-to-consumer (D2C) environment?
- Do you have at least 3 years of experience managing or leading a marketing team?
- Are you based in the UK and able to commute to either London or Birmingham on a full-time, office-based basis?
- . Do you have hands-on experience managing SEO, email marketing, and paid/organic digital channels simultaneously?
- Have you previously built a marketing team or marketing function from scratch (i.e., no existing team inherited)?
- What is your Notice Period?
Work Location: In person
