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Marketing Director


Vacancy details

General information

Reference

2026-298  

Position description

Job title

Marketing Director

Contract

Permanent contract

Contractual hours

Full-time

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Marketing Strategy & Positioning

  • Define the overall marketing direction in support of Wygwam's international growth ambitions
  • Develop clear, differentiated value propositions across product lines, geographies and customer segments
  • Translate complex technical offers into simple, commercially meaningful narratives
  • Rebalance the organisation from a sales-led mindset towards a mature, insight-driven marketing contribution


Customer Engagement Programme

  • Design and own Wygwam's customer engagement strategy, anchored in a 360° customer view: company data, business maturity, product usage, engagement signals and NPS
  • Build and evolve the Customer Engagement Platform — a segmentation-driven engine that delivers personalised next-best-actions, targeted programmes and loyalty mechanisms at scale
  • Define a Professional Gateway model: tiered services and support priced and positioned according to customer engagement level
  • Lead platform development through MVP release (planned Q2 2027) and beyond, embedding every new touchpoint into an ongoing engagement journey


Go-to-Market & Commercial Support

  • Strengthen marketing's role in lead generation, channel activation and market development
  • Clarify target group strategies across end users, installers, specifiers, wholesale and commercial stakeholders
  • Support more effective routes to market across countries and product lines
  • Create feedback loops between customer behaviour data, segment marketing and the product roadmap


International Market Intelligence

  • Bring strong sensitivity to differences across countries, channels and customer segments
  • Ensure marketing choices are grounded in local market realities, not headquarters assumptions
  • Build stronger connection with local teams and commercial "sensors" across EMEA and beyond


Team Leadership & Function Development

  • Lead and develop a multifunctional team across MarCom, segment marketing, customer success operations and marketing data management
  • Shape the structure, capabilities and operating model of the function in line with strategic needs
  • Decide what is built internally and what is supported through external partners
  • Build a focused, performance-oriented team culture with clear priorities and direction

Profile

Experience

  • Senior marketing or customer success leadership in an international B2B, technology-driven environment
  • Proven track record in strategic positioning, value proposition development and go-to-market leadership
  • Experience building or scaling customer engagement, lifecycle or loyalty programmes
  • Comfort with technically complex products, ecosystems or solutions
  • Track record leading multifunctional marketing teams in evolving organisational contexts


Capabilities

  • Able to translate complex offers into simple, customer-relevant messaging
  • Strong understanding of segmentation, CRM, customer journeys and behavioural data
  • Balances brand-building, demand generation and customer retention priorities
  • Operates effectively in ambiguity, across disciplines and without complete information


Leadership Style

  • Structured and pragmatic — brings focus, momentum and direction to a developing function
  • International in outlook; thinks beyond home-market or headquarters assumptions
  • Strong communicator, able to adapt to technical, commercial and executive audiences
  • Inclusive and energising, with resilience in fast-moving, complex environments


Languages

  • Fluent English required; Dutch and/or German a strong asset

We offer

  • A director-level role with board visibility and direct CEO reporting line
  • The mandate to build a customer engagement discipline from the ground up, at international scale
  • A company actively investing in its platform, product and people
  • A culture where leaders are expected to think, challenge and act — not just execute
  • Competitive package in line with the seniority and scope of the role

Position location

Job location

Europe, Belgium, Antwerp

Division (Niko/Wygwam)

Wygwam

Specify region/city (if applicable)

Antwerp