Marketing Director

We are looking for you who have several years of experience from similar assignments as a Marketing Manager. Preferably experience from companies with a strong brand and high quality awareness, as well as with in-house design and product development. If you also have experience in sales via networks of distributors and retailers for an international market, it is a plus. You are strongly market- and sales-oriented and are stimulated by a work situation that requires the ability to oscillate between strategic as well as operational issues and tasks. We believe that you have an academic education in marketing and sales or equivalent relevant education and experience. You also have documented good leadership competence and experience in successfully driving a marketing and sales organization. As a leader, you are clear and decisive but also have a good ability to develop teams and to coach your employees.

Your personal qualities are important because you are also a role model and representative for the business. Furthermore, high requirements are placed on your social communicative ability to conduct yourself in an international context with our Retailers as well as with our customers and employees. As a person, you are required to have integrity and at the same time be skilled at networking and getting people on board. For the assignment, it is required that you master the English language in speech and writing. Additional languages are meritorious.

Nimbus can offer you Nimbus can offer you a dynamic environment in an industry where we act on the international market for leisure boats. If you want to join us on a strong growth journey where your contribution will make a difference, then you are welcome to send us your application of interest. The place of employment is Göteborg at the Nimbus headquarters. As Marketing Director within Nimbus Group, you have the overall and operational responsibility to develop and strengthen our profiling and our brand on the international arena represented by our established ÅF-network of trading locations throughout the world. You also own the overall responsibility for our sales organization in close cooperation with your Sales Manager. Together with your marketing and sales team, you develop tools, support, and working methods that contribute to strengthening Nimbus Group's position both in Scandinavia and internationally. Coordinating our market communication and strengthening the brand profiling will be central to the assignment. Examples of tasks in this position may be:

• Establish marketing and sales plans based on Nimbus Group's business planning
• Develop and drive a common, cohesive marketing and brand profiling
• Provide support and marketing activities for Nimbus Group's ÅF-network and ensure the brand in our local markets
• Environmental scanning and environmental analysis
• Responsible for internal and external communication in all channels such as website, media platform, intranet, internal TV, press and media etc.
• Drive all marketing activities such as sales campaigns, trade fairs, customer events etc. and thus provide support for our Retailers

The Marketing Director reports to the CEO and is part of the management group. The assignment also involves a number of travels each year. Nimbus Group is one of Europe's leading manufacturers of leisure boats. With a Scandinavian approach to design and function, we develop boats for today's and tomorrow's boating life. The products are characterized by seaworthiness, functionality, and environmental awareness. The company develops, manufactures, and sells the brands Nimbus, Alukin, and Paragon Yachts for the world market. Nimbus headquarters is located in GKSS harbor in Göteborg. We sell our boats to consumers via retailers. Approximately half of our sales go through wholly-owned retailers and half via independent retailers. Turnover is estimated at 500 million SEK for 2018 and the company has 145 employees.