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Marketing manager with 7 years driving growth for B2B SaaS. Grew organic traffic from 20K to 120K monthly visits in 18 months. Led rebrand that increased trial signups by 35%. Strong in content strategy, SEO, and go-to-market execution.
EXPERIENCE
Marketing Manager — CloudBase SaaS2021–present
Grew organic blog traffic from 20K to 120K monthly visits through content strategy and SEO
Led product rebrand across 4 markets, driving 35% increase in trial signups
Managed €250K annual paid media budget with 3.2× average ROAS
Built and managed a team of 5: content, design, paid, analytics
Senior Marketing Specialist — GrowthCo2017–2021
Owned email marketing (40K subscribers): improved open rate from 18% to 31%
Led 12 product launch campaigns coordinating across sales and product teams
Implemented attribution model identifying €180K in previously unmeasured revenue
SKILLS
SEO, Google Analytics, HubSpot, Salesforce, Paid Search & Social, Content Strategy, A/B Testing, Email Marketing, Market Research
EDUCATION
BA Marketing · 2017
Resume summary examples
The summary is the first thing a recruiter reads. Pick the version that matches your experience and swap in your own numbers.
Entry level
Marketing specialist moving into management, with 2 years running paid social and email for a €400K annual budget. Cut cost per lead by 28% by restructuring campaign targeting, and took the email programme from one monthly send to a segmented calendar.
Mid level
Marketing manager with 6 years across acquisition and lifecycle, owning a €1.2M budget and a team of 3. Reduced blended CAC by 34% while growing qualified leads 2.1x, and rebuilt attribution so the channel mix stopped being argued about in meetings.
Senior level
Senior marketing manager with 10 years, running a €4M budget across 6 channels and a team of 9. Took pipeline contribution from 22% to 41% of total revenue in two years and built the brand campaign that lifted unaided awareness by 12 points.
How to write a marketing manager resume
Make every bullet a business result
The single difference between a marketing resume that gets interviews and one that doesn't is specificity. Replace "managed social media" with "grew LinkedIn following from 4K to 28K, driving 15% of all demo requests." Hiring managers evaluate whether you think in business outcomes — show them you do, explicitly.
Show the full funnel, not just one channel
Senior marketing roles need breadth. If your experience is heavy in one area, explicitly mention adjacent work — campaigns you ran with sales, reporting you owned, channels you briefed others on. This signals cross-functional ability, which most marketing manager roles require.
Tech stack belongs on your resume
Most marketing teams list specific tools in job postings: HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce, Semrush. Include these by name in your Skills section. Many ATS systems filter on exact tool names before a human reviews the resume.
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Ready-made resume bullet points
Copy a line, replace the numbers with yours and keep the verb at the front — that is what makes an achievement readable.
Cut blended customer acquisition cost by 34% in 12 months while growing qualified leads 2.1x
Grew organic traffic from 40K to 180K monthly sessions in 18 months through a content and technical SEO programme
Ran a €1.2M annual budget across 6 channels, reallocating 30% of spend after attribution showed two channels were double-counting
Rebuilt the lifecycle email programme into 9 segmented flows, raising email revenue by 46%
Led a product launch that reached 3,200 sign-ups in the first month, 40% above target
Lifted marketing-sourced pipeline from 22% to 41% of total revenue over two years
Reduced paid social cost per lead by 28% by rebuilding audience structure and killing 11 underperforming ad sets
Built the reporting dashboard that gave the leadership team weekly channel ROI instead of a monthly slide
Managed and developed a team of 3, two of whom were promoted to specialist roles within 18 months
Ran 40 A/B tests on landing pages in a year, lifting average conversion rate from 2.4% to 3.8%
SEO and content: keyword strategy, technical audits, editorial planning
Lifecycle and email: segmentation, automation flows, deliverability
Analytics and attribution: GA4, UTM discipline, multi-touch models
Budget ownership: forecasting, channel allocation, CAC and payback modelling
Marketing automation and CRM: HubSpot, Salesforce, Klaviyo
Soft skills
Explaining channel performance to a CFO without marketing vocabulary
Killing a campaign you championed when the numbers say so
Briefing creative so the work comes back close on the first round
Holding the line on brand when every team wants a different message
Keywords for ATS
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against the wording of the posting. Use the terms you genuinely know.
marketing strategy
digital marketing
paid advertising
Google Ads
Meta Ads
SEO
content marketing
email marketing
marketing automation
HubSpot
Salesforce
GA4
attribution
CAC
ROAS
conversion rate optimisation
demand generation
brand management
campaign management
budget management
The numbers a marketing manager resume is judged on
Marketing is measured constantly, which is why vague bullets stand out so badly. These four are what a hiring manager scans for, in roughly this order.
Budget you owned
Annual spend and how many channels it covered. It is the single fastest read on your level, and the number most often left off entirely.
Efficiency, not just volume
CAC, cost per lead, ROAS, payback period. Traffic and impressions grow with spend; efficiency only moves when someone makes good decisions, which is the case you are making.
Revenue or pipeline contribution
The percentage of pipeline or revenue marketing sourced, and where it started. This is the number that gets a marketing manager into a conversation with leadership.
Team and scope
People managed, agencies and freelancers directed, markets or product lines covered. Say it plainly, and if you led without formal reports, write it that way rather than implying a title.
The stack to name, and how to name it
Filters and recruiters match platform names literally, so spell them the way the posting does — and put depth beside the two or three you actually own.
Google Ads
Meta Ads Manager
LinkedIn Campaign Manager
GA4
Google Tag Manager
Looker Studio
HubSpot
Salesforce
Klaviyo
Mailchimp
Ahrefs
Semrush
Hotjar
Webflow
WordPress
Canva
Figma
Asana
Notion
UTM tracking
What to write in each section
Profile
Three lines: years and focus (acquisition, brand, lifecycle, B2B or B2C), the budget and team you ran, and one number that proves it worked — CAC, pipeline contribution, revenue growth. B2B and B2C are different jobs; say which one in the first line.
Experience
Per role, state the company stage and market — a €4M budget at an established brand is not a €200K budget at a startup where you also built the website. Each bullet: what you launched or changed, the mechanism, the number. Put the revenue-adjacent results first; traffic and impressions belong lower.
Skills
Split channels, analytics and platforms. Write platform names exactly as job ads write them, because filters match literally, and keep only the ones you could open and navigate in a screen share.
Education
Degree with year, then certifications that still carry weight: Google Ads, GA4, HubSpot, Meta Blueprint. Include the year — a 2016 analytics certification on a platform that has since been replaced reads worse than no certification at all.
Strong verbs for this resume
Start every achievement with a verb in the past tense. These are the ones that fit this role and read as work, not as a job description.
Launched
Scaled
Optimised
Reallocated
Tested
Positioned
Segmented
Forecast
Cut
Grew
Briefed
Reported
Key tips
Every bullet must include a metric: %, £/$, volume, or timeline
Show progression clearly — title → title formatting if promoted
List MarTech tools by name — ATS searches for specific platforms
Include one cross-functional project to signal beyond-channel leadership
Focus the profile on one specialty: growth, brand, or demand generation
Mistakes that cost interviews
Adjectives where numbers belong
"Significantly improved campaign performance" is the sentence every marketing resume contains, and it is the reason none of them stand out. Improved from what to what, over what period, on what budget — if you cannot say, the line is decoration.
One channel presented as a whole funnel
Traffic numbers with no conversion, or leads with no revenue, tell a hiring manager you were measured on the easy metric. Carry each claim one step further down the funnel than feels comfortable; that is where the credibility is.
No budget size anywhere
Running €50K a year and €4M a year are different jobs with different decisions. Budget is the fastest signal of your level, and leaving it out means being read as the smaller of the two.
Tool logos instead of tool depth
Listing twelve platforms says you have logins. Name what you did in the ones that matter — rebuilt the HubSpot lifecycle flows, restructured the Google Ads account, fixed the GA4 event layer — and drop the rest.
No experience yet?
Without a marketing job, the evidence is anything you have actually run: a small business's social account, an event you promoted, a newsletter with real subscribers, a side project you took to its first hundred users. Write it with the numbers you do have — reach, sign-ups, conversion, spend — even when they are small, because the discipline of measuring is what is being assessed. Add one platform certification and one written case study of a campaign you would run for a real company, with the budget split and the reasoning.
Three or four sentences are enough: why this role, what you have already done, what you want next.
Dear Hiring Team, I am applying for the marketing manager role at Acme. I have six years across acquisition and lifecycle, most recently owning a €1.2M budget and a team of three. In the last year I cut blended CAC by 34% while growing qualified leads 2.1x, largely by rebuilding attribution and moving 30% of spend out of two channels that were double-counting conversions. Your posting mentions building the lifecycle programme — I rebuilt ours into nine segmented flows, which raised email revenue by 46%. My resume has the full channel breakdown, and I am happy to walk through the attribution work in detail.
Frequently asked questions
Yes if current (within 2 years). List them in a Certifications section — they validate platform knowledge and signal initiative.
Focus on transferable metrics. "Grew MQL volume 3×" means the same in SaaS and retail. Lead with the outcome, mention the context briefly.
One page for under 7 years of experience; two pages if you have substantial multi-channel or leadership experience to show. Never pad to fill space.
Use honest approximations — "roughly doubled organic traffic" or "cut CPL by about a third" — rather than dropping the number entirely. Reconstruct figures from old performance reviews, dashboard screenshots, or launch announcements where you can. Relative results are credible; a resume with no numbers at all is not.
Yes — add one link in your contact line to a page or deck with 3–4 campaigns, each structured as objective, your role, and the measured result. This keeps the resume itself lean while giving interested hiring managers depth. Never attach extra files to the application unless the posting asks for them.
Say what you can evidence and how it was measured: "brand campaign; unaided awareness up 12 points in tracked survey" is honest and specific. Inventing a revenue number for a brand campaign fails the first interview question about methodology.
Yes, because they are different jobs. On agency work, name the client sector and the number of accounts you ran in parallel; on in-house, name the budget ownership and the team. Managers hire for one pattern or the other and want to see which one you have.
Include it only with what you did about it: cut spend in week two, moved the budget, and documented why. A campaign that failed and was stopped early shows judgement about money, which is most of what a marketing manager is trusted with.
How else this resume is searched for
Job titles differ between companies. If the posting uses one of these names, mirror its exact wording in your resume headline.
Digital marketing manager
Growth manager
Brand manager
Demand generation manager
Campaign manager
Performance marketing manager
Marketing lead
Head of marketing
Templates that suit this role
Any of these layouts keeps the sections above in the order a recruiter expects and exports to a clean PDF.
Every sample is written from real job postings for the role, not from a template: the sections, the wording and the order follow what employers actually ask for.
Achievements are phrased the way applicant tracking systems parse them — a verb, a result, a number — and the layout is checked to export cleanly to PDF.
The page is reviewed and updated when hiring practice for the role changes; the date above the example is the last review, not the publication date.
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