Combine marketing and passion for cinema?

Are you a strategic and hands-on marketing leader with a passion for creating exceptional cinema experiences and driving commercial results? We’re looking for an experienced and collaborative Marketing Manager to join the Northern Europe team at Odeon Cinemas Group. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, have strong leadership skills, and want to make an impact in the world of cinema – this could be the perfect role for you!

About the Role

As our Marketing Manager for Northern Europe, you’ll lead a team of talented in-cinema marketing specialists across Sweden, Finland, and Norway. You also work as a hands-on Marketing Manager for Odeon Kino in Norway. Your mission is to plan, develop, and implement marketing activations that enhance the cinema experience for our guests. You’ll work closely with cinema managers, internal teams, and external partners to deliver creative, insight-driven campaigns that bring our brand to life.

This role combines leadership with hands-on execution. You’ll manage budgets, oversee campaign workflows, and ensure that every initiative aligns with our commercial goals and brand vision. You’ll also represent Northern Europe in Odeon Cinema Group networks, sharing best practices and localizing group initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a Nordic marketing team of specialists. You will have two direct reports.

• Drive the planning and execution of multi-channel marketing campaigns in Norway

• Develop and support local marketing activations in collaboration with regional and cinema managers.

• Coordinate in-cinema experience activations to create memorable guest experiences.

• Monitor marketing budgets and allocate resources effectively across campaigns.

• Build and optimize marketing processes and schedules between teams.

• Represent Northern Europe in OCG networks and meetings, ensuring local delivery of group strategies.

• Share knowledge and content across the Northern territory and the wider OCG organization.

• Travel within the Nordic region to support local marketing initiatives and team collaboration.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Experience from leading marketing teams, ideally across multiple countries.

• Strong background in consumer marketing and campaign delivery. Experience from cinema industry is a plus.

• Hands-on experience with multi-channel campaigns (digital, social, in-store, print).

• Strong planning and organizational skills with proactive, can-do attitude.

• Skilled in stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.

• Excellent presentation and communication skills in English and Norwegian. Swedish or Finnish is a plus.

• Strategic mindset combined with the ability to execute and deliver results.

Personal Qualities and Characteristics

You are a passionate and self-driven leader who thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. With a natural balance between creativity and structure, you’re equally comfortable developing long term plans as you are managing and implementing day-to-day campaign execution. You combine a strategic and analytical mindset with strong planning and organizational skills, enabling you to navigate complex challenges while keeping teams focused and aligned.

You believe in building inclusive, high-performing teams and fostering a culture rooted in collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement. Your strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills make you an effective relationship-builder across markets, departments, and functions—an essential quality in a role where cross-functional communication is key.

We highly value personal suitability and are looking for someone who lives our core values: Fun & Passion, Quality & Service, Trust & Respect, Cooperation & Accountability. Finally, you’ll bring a genuine enthusiasm for marketing—and a true passion for cinema. If this sounds like you, we’d welcome you on our journey to make movies better for audiences across the Nordics.

What We Offer

• An exciting opportunity to be part of a fast-paced and creative environment where your ideas and leadership will help shape the future of cinema marketing in the Nordics.

• A collaborative and international team culture that values openness, trust, and having fun together—across borders and departments.

• Hybrid working flexibility (2–3 remote days per week depending on project needs) and a modern workplace in the heart of Oslo with 22 colleagues.

• A chance to make a real impact in a well-loved industry that brings stories to life on the big screen.

• Perks including free movie tickets, wellness benefits, and great colleagues who are as passionate about entertainment as you are.

This is a permanent position, based at our Support Office in Oslo, with hybrid working options. You’ll report to the Head of Marketing, located in Helsinki. Start date to be agreed, ideally as soon as possible.

Does this sound like a role for you?

If so, we encourage you to submit your application to us by no later than the 4. of January. We review applications and conduct interviews continuously, so please send in your application as soon as possible. We want your application to be in English.

If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the position, feel free to contact People Business Partner, Ingunn Husabø, ingunn.husabo@odeonkino.no or hiring manager Johanna Ekholm, Head of Marketing johanna.ekholm@finnkino.fi Please note that we do not accept applications via email due to GDPR.

Welcome with your application!

At ODEON Cinemas Group, everyone is welcome. We make movies better by bringing all our incredible differences and our different ways of thinking together with our passion for cinema, to deliver inspiring entertainment experiences for our guests. We are all individuals, and we recognize that everyone brings something special to our team. Starting from the moment you apply, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are embedded into all parts of the colleague journey, and we welcome individuals from all backgrounds. We select colleagues based on merit and the passion they show for their role.

We Make Movies Better!