Head of Digital Marketing (6 Month FTC)

Location: Wimbledon - Hybrid, approximately 1–2 office days per week

Salary: £75,000 – £100,000 (pro rata)

Contract: 6 Month Fixed-Term Contract (PAYE), with potential opportunity for extension or longer-term position

We are looking for an experienced and commercially minded marketing professional to join Harnham Group as Head of Digital Marketing on an initial 6-month fixed-term basis. This is a broad role designed for someone who enjoys combining strategy, supplier management, project delivery, and hands-on contribution. You’ll take ownership of marketing coordination across two businesses, oversee relationships with external agencies, and help ensure marketing activity contributes meaningfully to brand visibility, engagement, and commercial growth. Reporting directly to the Group CEO and working closely with senior leadership across Harnham and Rockborne, you will act as the central point between leadership teams and external partners, bringing structure, accountability, and momentum to activity across the group. This role would suit someone who enjoys operating independently, influencing senior stakeholders and getting stuck in where needed.

About Harnham & Rockborne

Harnham is a global leader in Data & AI recruitment, with offices in London, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Amsterdam. For nearly two decades, we’ve partnered with organisations ranging from start-ups to enterprise businesses, helping them build world-class data teams. Rockborne, our sister company, is a specialist data consultancy and talent development business helping organisations build long-term capability in data and AI through consulting, training, and talent solutions. Across both businesses, marketing plays an important role in how we position ourselves within the market. From thought leadership, salary guides and white papers through to podcasts, events, SEO initiatives and digital campaigns, marketing supports both brand visibility and commercial growth.

Key Responsibilities

• You will take ownership of marketing coordination and activity across Harnham Group, including:
• Managing relationships with external marketing and SEO agencies, ensuring accountability, quality, and delivery
• Partnering closely with senior leadership to align marketing activity with wider business priorities
• Acting as the central point between Harnham, Rockborne and external partners
• Supporting initiatives designed to increase brand visibility, engagement and inbound opportunities
• Overseeing activity across content, SEO, website projects and digital campaigns
• Supporting and reviewing thought leadership activity, including salary guides, reports, white papers, podcasts, and video content
• Coordinating marketing projects, campaigns, events, and roundtables across both businesses
• Reviewing outputs, contributing ideas, and helping improve messaging where required
• Monitoring performance and identifying opportunities to improve effectiveness

What Success Could Look Like in the First 6 Months

• Becoming the central point of ownership across marketing activity and suppliers
• Building strong relationships with leadership teams and external partners
• Delivering key projects effectively and improving coordination across businesses
• Introducing greater structure, accountability, and efficiency into marketing delivery
• Supporting improvements in visibility, engagement, and inbound performance
• Providing recommendations around future marketing priorities, supplier relationships or structure

Person Specification

We are open to a range of backgrounds, but we are likely to be interested in candidates who have:

• Experience operating within senior marketing roles, ideally in consultancy, professional services, technology, or other B2B environments
• Experience managing agencies, suppliers, or external partners
• Exposure across content, SEO, growth initiatives, brand, or digital marketing activity
• Strong stakeholder management and project management skills
• Confidence working directly with senior leaders and influencing decisions
• A proactive, pragmatic approach and ability to work independently
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery

We are looking for someone who is:

• Commercially minded and comfortable connecting marketing activity with business outcomes
• Curious and willing to challenge existing approaches
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and creating structure where needed
• Happy moving between strategic conversations and practical contributions
• Excited by the opportunity to shape how marketing develops across two growing businesses

Interested? If you’re looking for an opportunity to take ownership, work closely with senior leadership and help shape marketing across two businesses operating at the forefront of Data & AI, we’d love to hear from you.