Director of Brand - SaaS

Alpega
Barcelona, Spain
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior B2B SaaS marketers who can build brand authority and lead cross-functional teams, with a focus on European logistics and hybrid work arrangements.

Best fit for

  • Senior B2B SaaS marketers with experience in brand-building and team leadership in the logistics industry
    — “B2B SaaS experience (hard requirement) — ideally platform or subscription businesses”
  • Candidates with a proven ability to execute multi-channel campaigns and manage brand messaging frameworks
    — “Own and maintain the brand-house: positioning, value propositions, ICP-based messaging framework — the gating input for every campaign”
  • Professionals fluent in English and familiar with cross-cultural marketing in EU markets
    — “Experience running brand and organic social across multiple European markets”

Things to consider

  • Requires 3 days per week in the office despite hybrid work flexibility
    — “hybrid with 3 days in the office”
  • Strong emphasis on brand authority and long-term strategic execution
    — “turning it into a continuous, consistent awareness engine”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience building and executing ICP-based messaging frameworks in your resume and interview
    — “Own and maintain the brand-house: positioning, value propositions, ICP-based messaging framework”
  • Demonstrate measurable impact on organic demand and traffic quality in past roles
    — “Own organic & branded demand: branded search, organic MQL, and traffic quality”
  • Showcase leadership of marketing teams across multiple European markets in your background
    — “Proven people leadership: built, led and developed marketing teams across multiple markets”
  • Emphasize your ability to translate brand strategy into sustained campaign execution
    — “executing it into sustained, multi-channel campaigns”
  • Demonstrate fluency in English with C1 level or higher in your application materials
    — “Fluent English C1 or above”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • increasing brand authority
  • improving branded search volume
  • enhancing organic MQL volume
Typical background
B2B marketingbrand managementproduct marketing

Skills & requirements

Required

Brand ManagementProduct MarketingMarket PositioningCampaign PlanningThought Leadership

Preferred

Content MarketingDigital Marketing

About the role

Original posting from Alpega via Greenhouse

WHO ARE WE 

Alpega is the trusted execution platform shippers and carriers across Europe rely on to plan, procure, and execute road freight - every day, at the speed the industry demands. 

We are 450+ people across European offices, working in product, engineering, commercial, and the teams that keep partners connected. 

In 2026, Alpega was named a Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems. Our work also features in BCG's State of AI in European Logistics — alongside the companies setting the pace for the industry. 

Find out more about us: About us | Alpega 

ABOUT THE ROLE

Alpega is sharpening its marketing model and elevating brand into a standalone leadership function, central to driving top-of-funnel growth. The mandate is to build the brand-house — a clear market positioning and a modular, ICP-based messaging framework — and turn it into a continuous, consistent awareness engine. The Director also owns organic and branded demand, translating brand strength into relevant traffic that converts. This is a build-and-lead role: establishing the foundations, raising Alpega's brand authority in its core markets, and developing a talented team. It rewards equal parts strategic craft and the discipline to execute consistently over time.

What you need to do

Own and maintain the brand-house: positioning, value propositions, ICP-based messaging framework — the gating input for every campaign

Own product marketing: define value-proposition messaging, own market & competitive intelligence, and create and drive go-to-market campaigns for new products / features, together with Growth

Plan, build and run brand campaigns end-to-end on a continuous cadence — in close collaboration with Content & Creative to deliver fresh, innovative ideas that make the brand stand out (executed via C&C and Digital Channels)

Own organic social channels (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) — presence, content and community engagement

Build share of voice and brand authority through a continuous, consistent awareness cadence

Drive third-party communications — PR, media, external publications and endorsements — to expand share of voice

Run customer marketing — primarily sourcing customer testimonials and references to fuel brand proof and campaigns

Own organic & branded demand: branded search, organic MQL, and traffic quality (attract the right ICP)

Establish thought leadership via proprietary insight and analyst relations

Lead and develop the Brand team (brand & demand marketing, product marketing, comms, analyst relations)

Partner with Growth, Content & Creative and Digital Channels to turn the brand-house into campaigns and conversion

What success looks like

The brand-house is built, adopted across marketing, and gates every campaign

A continuous, consistent awareness cadence is live across core markets and channels, including organic social

Share of voice and brand authority are rising in core markets

Branded search and organic demand are on a clear upward trend

A credible thought-leadership presence is established (proprietary insight, analyst coverage, PR)

The Brand team is stable, capable and high-performing

Key Success Metrics

Share of Voice vs. key competitors in core markets

Branded search volume

Organic MQL volume

Organic traffic-to-lead conversion rate (traffic quality)

Social reach & engagement growth

WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN YOU

Need-to-haves

10+ years in B2B marketing, including 4+ years leading a brand or marketing function with direct team management

B2B SaaS experience (hard requirement) — ideally platform or subscription businesses

Demonstrable track record building a brand/messaging framework (positioning + ICP messaging) and executing it into sustained, multi-channel campaigns

Has owned organic & branded demand and can evidence the brand-to-pipeline/MQL link

Strong craft in positioning, value proposition and ICP-based messaging

Strong analytical mindset — spots the gaps between brand ambition and reality and translates them into concrete plans and projects

Highly structured and organized — brings rigor, prioritization and follow-through to execution

Proven people leadership: built, led and developed marketing teams across multiple markets

Experience running brand and organic social across multiple European markets

Fluent English C1 or above

Nice-to-haves

Logistics / transport / supply-chain or marketplace / network-business background

Analyst-relations and PR experience

Experience operating AI-assisted content and production models

Additional European languages / cross-cultural campaign experience across EU markets

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

Permanent contract

Work model: hybrid with 3 days in the office

23 days of holidays a year + your birthday day off

Health insurance

Allowance

Grow and learning opportunities in an international environment.

The possibility to work in a team, but also to work independently.

An excellent career opportunity at a leading player in transportation management software.

Learn more about Life at Alpega

OUR COMMITMENT 

Alpega hires people from diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and identities. What matters is the work, and that the people doing it have what they need to do it well. 

If you need adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process, contact the Talent Acquisition specialist for this role, and we'll arrange it. 

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Source: Alpega careers (Greenhouse)

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