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Nicole Christensen

London

Summary

Global marketing executive with 15+ years of marketing experience for global companies where I have focused on Marketing Strategy, Brand Marketing, Growth and Product Marketing while building high performing teams. Proven ability to fuse creative and analytical perspectives to drive results.


EMEA & APAC Integrated Marketing Director at Bumble, overseeing international marketing campaigns and strategies across 16 markets (Including US). Additionally, leads new market expansion and launched Bumble successfully in Germany, France and Southern Europe.


Previously managed the marketing team at Fintech start-up Curve, helping the company to scale to 400k users and a £500m valuation. Before this, worked at Barclays for five years holding roles across multiple marketing functions.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

EMEA & APAC Integrated Marketing Director

Bumble
London
03.2024 - Current
  • Interim VP of Global Integrated Marketing (April 24 - November 24)
  • Responsible for delivering strategies, playbooks and execution of Global Brand and Product Integrated Marketing Campaigns (including US). This includes coordinating - Partnerships, Product, Social, Growth, CRM, Comms, Policy etc.
  • Responsible for leading all initiatives which are EMEA/APAC-wide, Including international marketing strategies, media, operations and full-funnel campaign execution. Markets have delivered over 40% of new users and 25% revenue growth for the business in 2023.
  • Responsible for new market expansion and country management of new markets until they reach a mature level of growth. This has included Germany, France and Southern Europe. This resulted in double-digit growth and market share, resulting in Bumble gaining first and second positions in these markets.
  • Led EMEA and APAC-wide Integrated Marketing Campaigns before being asked to then develop campaigns to be used globally (including US + LATAM) due to strong brand lift and growth performance.
  • Built marketing centralisation models and team structure to create significant business efficiencies. This includes building our ways of working with a new in-house creative studio. This has driven a 50% working spend cost saving on global brand work.
  • Oversaw GTM and Playbook development for global brand partnership and talent campaigns including - Netflix (Ted Lasso, Stranger Things), Ebay, Gymshark, Uber Eats, and Barbie.

EMEA Integrated Marketing Director

Bumble
London
02.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for leading all initiatives which are EMEA-wide, Including international marketing strategies, media, operations and full-funnel campaign execution.

Associate Director, EMEA Integrated Marketing

Bumble
London
02.2021 - 02.2022
  • Oversaw the Brand Marketing function in EMEA and ANZ to deliver consumer insight-driven brand and cultural campaigns.
  • Delivered strategies and toolkits to be used across the region for local market execution. This involved gaining alignment and budget commitment with multiple Regional Market Leaders.
  • Led successful new market launches in France and Belgium. Bumble occupied 2nd market share position in France with 18 months.

Senior Marketing Manager

Bumble
London
02.2020 - 02.2021
  • Oversaw Digital Growth and Brand Marketing content development for all Bumble's International markets. This included both performance marketing and campaign ad creative.

International Digital Marketing Manager

Bumble
London
10.2018 - 01.2020
  • Oversaw Growth Marketing for all Bumble's International markets. This included both performance marketing and campaign ad creative.

Senior Marketing Manager

Curve
London
10.2017 - 10.2018
  • Responsible for the marketing function and a four person team. Oversaw Curve launch to consumer in January 2017 encompassing both marketing campaigns and PR.

Various Marketing Roles

Barclaycard
London
08.2012 - 08.2017

Held roles - Experiential Marketing and Partnerships Manager, Performance Manager - Chief Marketing Officer’s Office and Marketing Manager.

Press Officer

Unilever
Surrey
08.2011 - 08.2012

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Fashion and Management

University of the Arts London
London, UK

Mandarin Qualification -

Beijing Language Cultural University
Beijing, CHINA
04.2001 -

Skills

    DOMAIN STRENGTHS:

    Marketing strategy, brand marketing, growth marketing, product marketing, CRM, customer analytics and insights, marketing communications, community, content marketing, product development, and UX, UI, customer research Strong experience with internationalization/ localization of brands, new product launches, and new audience expansions


    SOFT SKILL STRENGTHS:

    Leadership skills, adaptive management abilities, operational strength, and critical thinking Strong business acumen, commercial capabilities and highly analytical


Certification

  • Marketing Strategy - Reforge
  • MBA Essentials - London School of Economics (3-month short course)


Timeline

EMEA & APAC Integrated Marketing Director

Bumble
03.2024 - Current

EMEA Integrated Marketing Director

Bumble
02.2022 - Current

Associate Director, EMEA Integrated Marketing

Bumble
02.2021 - 02.2022

Senior Marketing Manager

Bumble
02.2020 - 02.2021

International Digital Marketing Manager

Bumble
10.2018 - 01.2020

Senior Marketing Manager

Curve
10.2017 - 10.2018

Various Marketing Roles

Barclaycard
08.2012 - 08.2017

Press Officer

Unilever
08.2011 - 08.2012

Mandarin Qualification -

Beijing Language Cultural University
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Arts - Fashion and Management

University of the Arts London
Nicole Christensen