Head of Marketing - Central, EMEA

At On, we Ignite the Human Spirit through Movement. As Head of Marketing for Central Europe (DE, CH, AT), you’ll lead a diverse, multi-discipline marketing organisation — shaping the regional vision and uniting Brand Marketing, Brand Activation, Community, and B2B Partner Marketing into one connected, high-performing team. You will set the strategic direction and bring our brand to life across markets, cultures, and channels — driving brand awareness and heat. We're looking for a visionary builder: someone who inspires teams, shapes culture, and turns ambition into meaningful brand impact. Your Mission

Define and lead the Central Europe marketing strategy, partnering closely with the Head of Sales to deliver regional brand and business growth. Lead the full Sub-Regional Marketing team — Brand Comms, Brand Activation, and Trade Marketing — creating clarity, cohesion, and a shared sense of purpose across markets. Shape the sub-regional narrative together with your Brand Comms team, ensuring our stories land with cultural resonance and local relevance across campaigns, channels, communities, and partners. Champion executional excellence, translating global and regional direction into premium, impactful work at every touchpoint. Drive an integrated operating model, enabling cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Regional Brand Studio and Experience, Strategic Partners, Ecommerce and Retail/DTCR. Build strong relationships with key accounts and community networks — partnering closely with your Trade Marketing and Brand Activation teams to ensure our brand shows up with intention and influence across Central Europe. Steward the regional marketing budget, ensuring disciplined planning, smart investment, and clear measurement of brand and commercial impact. Inspire, develop, and empower leaders, fostering an inclusive, creative, high-performance culture across all marketing functions and markets. Your story

Typically 10+ years’ experience across multiple marketing disciplines, ideally within sportswear, consumer, or lifestyle brands. Proven success leading diverse and creative teams — across functions, markets, and levels. A strategic thinker with strong brand intuition, cultural awareness, and an ability to translate vision into action. Comfortable operating in ambiguity — able to read between the lines, simplify complexity, and turn uncertainty into clear direction for your team. Strong analytical competence, with the ability to make grounded decisions at pace. A natural collaborator – energised by cross-functional work and driving alignment across teams. Based in or within proximity to Zurich or Berlin (2–3 days per week in office) with willingness to travel across the region. You embody On's Spirits. Check out our career page for more on these! About the Team

You’ll lead a passionate, fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team focused on delivering impactful brand moments across the Central Europe subregion. Together, you will bring On’s global narrative to life with local relevance, shaping how millions of runners and movers experience the brand. Just by the banks of the Limmat you’ll find our largest global hub in Zürich West – On Labs – where you can hike up 12 floors through our custom-built spiral trail. In a former 19th Century postal building by Berlin’s river Spree, you’ll find our future-focused, creative hub. I think something that unites people here is the pace and the drive. The ambition is quite high in everything we do and when you bring these people together, you see the outcome can be multiplied. It's super impressive to see what happens when you put these creative teams together who really help each other grow. What we offer

On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose. On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrimination. We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think. Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things. Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment. Step One:

It starts with you...

You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role. We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.

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