Senior Brand Manager (f/m/x)

ACT Group

YOUR ROLE IN OUR STORY:  As our Global Brand & Communications Manager, you will shape how ACT is seen, understood and experienced around the world. Reporting to the Global Director of Marketing, you will lead the global Brand & Communications function, manage a team of six and work closely with Executive Leadership and Commercial teams. ACT is evolving from a global leader in environmental commodities into a broader sustainability solutions provider. At this defining stage in our growth, you will help strengthen our market position, increase ACT’s visibility and build a trusted, differentiated brand. You will work with talented colleagues across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific to help organisations accelerate the transition from climate ambition to measurable action. In essence, your role involves: * Own and evolve ACT’s global brand and communications strategy in line with our business transformation. * Develop clear messaging and compelling storytelling that strengthens ACT’s market position. * Translate business priorities into relevant, credible and impactful communications. * Lead, coach and develop a high-performing Brand & Communications team of six. * Ensure a consistent brand experience across campaigns, content, digital channels and corporate communications. * Increase visibility and engagement across the website, social media, search and AI-powered discovery platforms. * Use market insights and performance data to continuously improve brand, content, campaigns, digital performance and communication effectiveness. * Partner with senior stakeholders to turn business priorities into impactful communications. * Manage external agencies and champion AI to improve marketing effectiveness and operational efficiency. Success in this role means strengthening ACT’s global brand, increasing visibility and engagement, improving digital performance, embedding AI within the Brand & Communications function and building a high-performing team that contributes directly to commercial growth.     YOUR EXPERTISE:  You combine strategic thinking with hands-on leadership and know how to translate business strategy into clear messaging, compelling market stories and consistent brand experiences. You are able to deliver impactful communications and measurable business results, with a strong focus on commercial growth. To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes: * A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Marketing, Communications or a related discipline. * 10+ years of experience in Brand, Corporate Communications or Strategic Marketing within an international B2B environment. * Proven experience developing brand strategy, market positioning and corporate messaging. * Experience leading and developing high-performing teams through growth or transformation. * Strong expertise in brand management, digital marketing, content strategy, SEO and AI-enabled marketing. * Excellent storytelling, stakeholder-management and communication skills. * A commercial and data-driven mindset, with the ability to translate brand investment into measurable business impact.   This is more than a Brand & Communications role. It is an opportunity to shape the global brand of a fast-growing sustainability company at a defining moment in its evolution. If you are excited by the opportunity to combine strategy, creativity and commercial impact on a global stage, we would love to hear from you.

Adyen

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.  For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Adyen is seeking an experienced, proactive, and collaborative Art Director/Senior Brand Designer with a specialized focus in Experiential Design. This role will be based in our Amsterdam office, working closely with cross-functional teams and reporting directly to our Global Design Team Lead. Art Director - Internal Comms Branding The Art Director role focuses on conceptualizing, designing, and executing visuals that not only align with Adyen’s brand guidelines, value proposition, and internal communications strategy but also elevate and enhance the overall internal brand experience. You’ll take complex ideas and product features and simplify them into beautiful, understandable visuals. You’ll respond to diverse briefs, translating project requirements into intuitive, impactful designs that achieve measurable outcomes. The ideal candidate is experienced in responding to briefs, creating compelling designs across various objectives, and collaborating effectively with stakeholders. You are highly specialized in creating engaging touchpoints to activate an internal audience. Bonus if you have experience in other forms of design. This role requires strong project management skills and stakeholder management.  What you’ll do: * [Creative Direction & Strategy] Act as the internal creative lead for large-scale campaigns (e.g., Investor Day, Connect), providing overall creative direction, conceptual routing, and visual identity stewardship to ensure all assets are cohesive and aligned with strategic goals. * [Agency Management & QA] Take ownership of managing external agency and vendor relationships (e.g., Kinsmen, LiveLegends), including detailed briefing, creative steering, quality assurance (QA) on deliverables, and managing project timelines to ensure high design standards are met. * [Presentation Design] Lead the end-to-end design and production of high-stakes presentations (e.g., 9 decks, 130+ slides), translating complex narratives and copy into compelling visual concepts, including data visualization, custom illustration, dynamic content, and motion design for slides. * [Illustration] Develop brand-based illustrations from concept and sketches to finished product, especially icons and complex graphical elements required for presentation content and data-driven storytelling. * [Print & Event Collaboration] Manage the creative collaboration with production houses (e.g., Brownys) to successfully deliver and finalize a high volume of print assets (e.g., banners, wayfinding, notebooks) by ensuring file preparation and design accuracy across physical media. * [Experiential Design] Designing holistic, immersive experiences for an audience, often blending physical and digital touchpoints (like your event/streaming assets). * [Internal Branding or Internal Brand Experience Design] Applying brand strategy and design principles to a company's own employees to drive engagement, culture, and ambassadorship. * [Engagement Design]  A design approach focused purely on maximizing user (or audience) involvement and interaction with a piece of content, product, or campaign. * Strategically elevate the internal brand’s visual identity across multiple platforms, ensuring a cohesive and impactful presence. * Leverage extensive expertise in design principles and advanced techniques to deliver visually compelling, impactful design solutions that set a high standard for creative excellence and communication * Act as a subject matter expert in internal communications design, providing insights, recommendations, and thought leadership to inform design strategy and decision-making processes. * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate strategy, business objectives, cultural narratives, into creative solutions that consistently meet or exceed expectations. * Manage multiple projects concurrently throughout all stages of the design process, from inception to final delivery. * Take ownership and accountability for assigned projects, ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality standards are met. * Proactively address any project-related challenges, proposing creative solutions and managing expectations as necessary. Who you are:  * You have 8+ years of professional experience working as an Art Director or Brand Designer (in-house, freelance, or agency). * You excel in the tools that make you an expert in art direction/brand design, with proficiency in Adobe CC, Keynote, Google slides, and Figma. * Your portfolio showcases your expertise in art direction and brand engagement, with examples of strategic and creative solutions. Bonus if it includes a diverse range of work across different media types. * You are a team player who understands the value of collaboration and an all-hands-on-deck approach in a fast-paced environment. * You have the ability to self-start, stick to deadlines, and drive projects forward, while being open and comfortable with iteration and feedback. * You have full professional proficiency (written and verbal) in English. * Some domestic and international travel is required. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments  Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.  Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application! What’s next? Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.   This role is based out of our Amsterdam office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.

Catawiki

At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 Car, a Woolly Mammoth’s Skeleton, Lady Gaga's Jumpsuit or Usain Bolt’s running shoe, we encounter exceptional objects every day. We’re a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects. Each week, more than 100,000 unique items are auctioned, all carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts. Having sold over 25 million unique objects, our mission is to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by three core values. If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us. * Taking ownership and driving impact  * Being open to change and feedback * Being passionate about our mission and our customers.  YOUR MISSION Own and grow Catawiki’s organic social presence across key platforms, turning exceptional objects, expert knowledge and category opportunities into engaging content that builds audience, brand affinity and commercial impact. You will lead the social strategy end-to-end, combining hands-on content creation, creator partnerships and AI-powered workflows to deliver high-quality content at scale while driving measurable business outcomes. WHAT YOU’LL DO * Define and execute the organic social media strategy across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Facebook, aligning content with business priorities and category opportunities. * Create, edit and publish social content independently, delivering a consistent stream of platform-native content. * Collaborate with Experts and Category teams to identify standout lots and transform them into compelling stories tailored to each channel. * Drive audience growth, engagement, lead generation and conversion performance, using data and insights to optimise results and report impact to senior stakeholders. * Identify, negotiate and manage influencer and creator partnerships that strengthen reach and relevance across key audiences. * Build and continuously improve AI-powered content creation workflows, from ideation and scripting through to publishing, enabling efficient content production at scale. WHAT YOU’LL BRING * 3+ years of experience in social media, ideally across both in-house and agency environments within consumer, media or marketplace businesses. * Proven ability to take content from concept to publication independently, including writing, shooting, editing and publishing. * Strong working knowledge of tools such as Figma, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite (including Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects) or CapCut, with a sharp eye for platform-native content. * Hands-on experience using generative AI tools throughout the content creation process and a strong interest in advancing AI-powered workflows. * Strong commercial and analytical skills, with experience setting KPIs, identifying growth opportunities and driving measurable business outcomes. * Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to align cross-functional teams and deliver results in a fast-paced environment. * An international mindset, with experience across multiple markets and languages and an interest in art, collectibles, luxury or design considered a plus. HOW WE WORK * Partner closely with Brand, Communicatons, CRM, Paid Social and Category teams to maximise the impact of campaigns across channels. * Work cross-functionally with in-house experts and category specialists to uncover stories and content opportunities. * Take ownership of strategy, execution and performance in a lean, high-impact setup. * Continuously test, learn and adapt, using emerging platforms, tools and technologies to improve results. WHERE YOU’LL BE This is a hybrid role based in Amsterdam. You will work from our Amsterdam HQ a minimum of 2 days per week. WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING WITH US * Create a visible impact by working at scale in a global organisation serving millions of customers across 80+ categories. In our flat structure, every role has a broad scope and directly impacts both our customers and the business. * Learn and grow through our Learning & Development initiatives, including clear development plans and mentorship programmes to support your career progression. * A culture of connection defines us. We’re a passionate, diverse team of 800+ Catawikians representing 60+ nationalities. We foster an inclusive and queer-friendly environment where everyone is encouraged to bring their full self to work. * Celebrate life’s moments with us. You’ll receive a €100 Catavoucher when you join, a €50 Catavoucher on your birthday, and an extra day off each year to “Pursue Your Passion”. We also offer additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events. Benefits may vary by location. OUR OFFICES AND WAY OF WORKING Our vibrant offices in Amsterdam and Lisbon are designed to inspire collaboration. Most Catawikians operate in a hybrid setup, combining office-based and remote work, with a minimum of two days per week in the office, unless a role is explicitly stated as fully remote or fully office-based. INTERESTED? Apply with an English CV and Cover Letter. By applying, you agree to Catawiki’s Applicant Privacy Policy. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.