Manager – Brand

Job Description:

Salary: Competitive per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Flexible working with up to 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 15th July 2025

In a nutshell

At Virgin Atlantic, we don’t just fly people – we empower them to take on the world. With an ambition to be the most loved travel company, we’re entering a bold new chapter fuelled by innovation, creativity, and a fearless spirit to do things differently.

We’re now on the lookout for a Marketing Manager – Brand to help shape and deliver inspiring campaigns that bring our brand to life across the globe.

This is a high-impact opportunity for a strategic and imaginative brand spaneter who thrives in fast-paced environments. Reporting into the Senior Marketing Manager – Brand & Marketing, you’ll lead the creation and execution of integrated brand campaigns across the UK, US and international spanets – aiming to attract new customers and deepen the love of existing ones.

Your campaigns will power brand awareness, inspire demand and drive revenue. You’ll be the bridge between creative vision and commercial success, harnessing insight-led strategies to make Virgin Atlantic’s brand message shine across every touchpoint.

Day to day

•Lead multiple campaigns from concept to execution, delivering against brand and revenue goals.

•Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build insight-led demand strategies.

•Write inspiring briefs for agencies and internal stakeholders that challenge the norm.

•Drive campaign amplification across paid, owned and earned channels.

•Manage global creative, media and production agencies to ensure alignment and excellence.

•Partner with internal teams from digital, PR, CRM, trade spaneting and IFE to ensure unified execution.

•Optimise media strategy using econometrics and brand data, working with media effectiveness teams.

•Own global connections planning and ensure smart budget utilisation.

•Be the “creative glue” between media and production – ensuring campaigns are executed for maximum impact.

•Champion media innovation and experimentation by sharing best-in-class work and testing new ideas.

About you

• Proven experience managing complex, high-profile brands within the UK (global experience is a plus).

•A strong track record in delivering integrated campaigns across advertising, social, digital, PR and brand partnerships.

•Sharp consumer and commercial insight with the ability to develop communication that aligns with wider brand strategy.

•Excellent analytical skills – able to translate performance into insight and action.

•Experience managing large-scale agency relationships and budgets.

•A strong creative eye – from briefing, to reviewing, to judging results.

•The ability to lead large-scale projects from strategy through to delivery.

•Flexibility to thrive in a dynamic, fast-moving environment.

•A resourceful mindset and high commercial acumen.

•First-class communication, stakeholder management and collaboration skills.

•Meticulous attention to detail, with a passion for producing consistent and high-quality work.

Our recipe for leadership

At Virgin Atlantic, our leaders empower teams to thrive through collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Explore our Leadership Recipe and discover the 20 core ingredients that define what it means to lead with us, driving our mission to be the most loved travel company and achieve sustainable profit. Want to learn more? Click here

Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitmentfly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.

Job Ident #: 2880

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en

Virgin Atlantic uses a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft and operates to destinations in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia from its main hub at London–Heathrow, and its secondary hub at Manchester

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Job Info

Location

Crawley , England, United Kingdom

Type

Permanent

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en