Brand

The journey to turn Clarks into a brand-led business is well underway. But to accelerate this journey, we’re looking for a number of high class Marketers with different levels of experience to join us – people who want to sign up to our team’s mission to build a portfolio of the world’s most aspirational shoe brands.

Our Brand Marketers understand our consumers around the world better than anyone else, and it’s with this insight that they shape the future vision for our brands and sub-brands. Working closely with creatives, they create game-changing global marketing campaigns that enable their visions to become reality.

Using their second-to-none knowledge and unbeatable insight of our consumers around the world, our Channel Marketers create genuine, engaging omni-channel experiences for our customers. Working hand-in-hand with regional colleagues, they ensure our game-changing global marketing campaigns are joined up throughout the purchase funnel. 

Both Brand and Channel Marketers need a strong understanding of Retail and Wholesale channels and digital marketing – especially how to use influencers and build brands through social media. We’re looking for people who understand how a brand-centric business thinks, are passionate about developing creative solutions, and are prepared to roll up their sleeves and get stuck into the challenges of building the world’s best shoe brand. We work in a rapidly-changing industry where the seasons come thick and fast – so naturally, you’ll need to be well-organised and strong on delivery. 

Make no mistake, we're out to build the best in-house creative team in the business – and we’re already making good progress, as last year we were recognised as the best in-house team in the UK at the in House Awards. We want to continue build on our success by developing more great industry-leading creative work that delivers outstanding commercial results and builds our brand portfolio into the global powerhouse of the global footwear industry. And, on the way, we hope to win a few more awards for our thinking, strategy, creativity, craft and delivery.

Responsibility and exposure come with the territory. While Somerset is our home, the world is our adventure playground. You'll travel for inspiration, you'll sit and work alongside your brand marketing colleagues daily, and your work will be seen across the globe. We're all about being connected, geographically and culturally. With your finger on the pulse, you'll know what's happening right now in the retail, digital and creative worlds.

Who are we looking for? Creatives. We're not prescriptive about background. We want bright creative minds. People who will think differently. We’re looking for individuals; the bold. The fearless. The unconventional.

At Clarks, the shoe is the star. Always has been, always will be. And great products are always designed around a deep understanding of the consumer. That’s why our Product Line Managers are at the forefront of defining the product strategy for each of our brands. It’s their job to not only understand the global market place and evolving competition, but also the consumer better than anyone. They take this insight and use it to plan our global shoe ranges to ensure that our offer is the most compelling and competitive expression of our brand it can be. 

We want people who are passionate about our product and understand how great product ranges build great brands to join us. The kind of people who can make the brave and bold decisions it takes to stay ahead of the consumer – removing products that are no longer relevant to the brand, sometimes before the volumes say so – and identifying exciting new opportunities in fertile areas for the brand to develop.

We’re looking for people with different levels of experience to join our team, so if you don’t already have the full set of skills to be an outstanding PLM, we’ll give you all the training you need to get there. 

Great design is back at the heart of Clarks. Because we want shoes to be the stars, we need more star-makers. Designers with vision. Designers who are always pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Here in Product Design, we take the concept, the seasonal direction, and we distil it into the product story: first step, colour palette, materials. We then get to work on detailing and finishes. Sounds simple. Demands raw talent. Calls for real creativity.

Work with us and you'll have plenty of ownership – variety too. You'll conceive and create Clarks styles across a huge range of products. We can't imagine that happening anywhere else. Now, we can teach you everything shoe making. You'll be surrounded by some serious knowledge. You'll have state-of the-art kit at your fingertips. You'll play and work in inspiring, creative spaces.

Everything we know will go into everything you do. But you need to bring the creativity. The flashes of inspiration. Forget formulaic. Done before doesn't interest us. Doesn't interest you. So we're not prescriptive about where you come from, what your background is – product design, industrial design, it doesn't have to be shoes. But we'll say it again: come armed with ideas.