Assistant Brand Manager

RDX is seeking an Assistant Brand Manager to enhance the brand’s presence across all customer touchpoints, including online platforms, retail environments, partnerships, and fitness venues. This role involves translating market and competitor insights into actionable strategies, improving the website and digital experience, and supporting the development of new brand partnerships within combat sports and fitness sectors. The position requires a hands-on individual who can balance strategic thinking with execution, collaborating closely with the Brand Manager, e-commerce, creative, product, and sales teams.

Key Responsibilities

Competitor and Market Analysis
Monitor key competitors in combat sports, fitness, and sportswear by analyzing their products, pricing, positioning, campaigns, social media activity, and website experience. Produce regular competitor reports, including monthly snapshots and quarterly deep-dives, with clear recommendations. Track category trends, consumer reviews, and sentiment to identify gaps and opportunities for RDX.

Website and Digital Experience
Conduct regular audits of RDX websites to ensure brand consistency, user experience, product storytelling, content quality, and conversion optimization. Benchmark the site against competitors and leading brands, creating a prioritized list of improvements. Collaborate with e-commerce and web teams to brief, test, and monitor changes such as A/B tests, landing pages, and product detail page content.

Brand Partnerships
Identify and research potential partners including athletes, gyms, fight promotions, events, influencers, and co-branding opportunities. Initiate outreach efforts, prepare partnership proposals, and assist in negotiations alongside the Marketing Director. Coordinate the activation of partnerships and report on performance against agreed objectives.

Marketing Touchpoint Improvement
Review all customer touchpoints—website, social media, email, marketplaces, packaging, retail/POS, events, and customer service—to ensure alignment with brand guidelines. Recommend practical improvements to tone, visuals, and overall customer experience, supporting their implementation. Help maintain and enforce brand standards across internal teams and external agencies.

General Brand Support
Assist in campaign planning, briefing, and launching with creative and marketing teams. Track brand KPIs and prepare regular performance updates for leadership. Manage small budgets and relationships with agencies or vendors as assigned.

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field
- 3 to 6 years of experience in brand management, marketing, social media, or e-commerce, preferably with consumer, sports, or lifestyle brands
- Prior experience with a combat sports brand is a significant advantage
- Proven ability to produce competitor and market analyses that influence business decisions
- Experience in pitching or managing partnerships, sponsorships, or collaborations
- Strong analytical skills, comfortable using Google Analytics, Excel/Sheets, and social listening tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to present ideas clearly to senior stakeholders
- Highly organized, capable of managing multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
- Keen eye for brand consistency and attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with international or direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands across UK, EU, or US markets
- Basic design skills using tools like Figma or Canva to create website or creative mock-ups
- Experience working with agencies, influencers, or athlete ambassadors

Benefits
- Fuel allowance
- Medical insurance
- Free in-house lunch facility
- Access to gym memberships at partner gyms
- Participatory fund
- Market competitive salary with sales commissions
- Learning opportunities and a challenging work environment
- Supportive and engaging work culture
- Paid time off
- Group life insurance
- Maternity leave and additional benefits

This role offers a dynamic opportunity to contribute to a growing brand within the combat sports and fitness industry, combining strategic insight with practical execution in a collaborative environment.