2025 has already seen 88,261 marketing hires and 65,807 promotions worldwide - and every one of them opens a new buying window for agencies, martech and sponsorship suppliers.
Here’s what shifted in November, and where the real opportunities now sit heading into 2026.
📊 November snapshot:
- United Kingdom: 3,803 hires, 1,251 promotions
- United States: 2,446 hires, 496 promotions
- Europe: 907 hires, 171 promotions
- Rest of World: 2,206 hires, 120 promotions
Here are the moves that matter most for suppliers heading into 2026.
United Kingdom
Notable senior marketing hires this month:
- Newmarket Holidays – Francesca Pulleyn, Chief Marketing Officer
- Saville Assessment – Rachel Frost, Marketing Director
- Sky Betting & Gaming – Harry Phillips, Marketing Director
- Pipedrive – Jyothi Siddaiah, VP of Customer Marketing
- Hunter & Gather Foods – Susanne Ritzdorf, Growth Marketing & Ecommerce Director
✨ Other UK companies hiring senior marketing leaders include:
The Royal College of Midwives, Better Nature, Kainos, Tortilla Mexican Grill, AMS Group, Hargreaves Lansdown, Sunseeker International, Unilever, Workdry International
United States
Key senior US marketing hires influencing 2026 activity:
- Horizon Family Brands – Andrew Springate, Chief Marketing Officer
- Arm – Ami Badani, Chief Marketing Officer
- Virtuoso Travel – Alyssa Bushey, Senior Vice President Global Marketing
- Sony Interactive Entertainment – Mary Yee, Senior Vice President Marketing
- Coinbase – Gareth Kay, Vice President Brand
✨ Other US companies hiring senior marketing leaders include:
Gear Inc, Central Garden & Pet, Docebo, TigerConnect, ModMed, Old National Bank, Victra, BambooHR, Informa, Multipli Credit Union, Seekr, Articulate, King Ranch, Samsung Electronics America, First Bank (FBNC)
Europe
High-impact European marketing leadership hires:
- Straumann Group – David Kohler, VP Global Head of Marketing and Education CCS
- Room Mate Hotels – Cristina Blanco, Chief Marketing Officer
- Groupe Keolis – Abdellah Chajai, Group EVP Marketing, Innovation & Engagement
- SoftProject – Susann Seyfried, Senior Vice President Marketing
- The Body Shop – Victor Sabbe, Chief Marketing Officer
- Greenly – Laurent Levrey, VP of Marketing
- Munters – Kershini Henriksson, VP Marketing, Communications and Brand
✨ Other European organisations hiring senior marketing leaders include:
Insightful, Roche, Grupo HA Hoteles, Keolis Commuter Services, Pink Tuna Rebel, L’OCCITANE Group, Moha
📈 Promotions to watch
Promotions can trigger immediate reviews of agencies, sponsorships and martech:
- Nestlé Purina North America – Brent Gleckler, Chief Marketing Officer
- Swissquote – Jan Schepper, Chief Marketing Officer
- Carnival Cruise Line – Jonathan Lask, SVP Onboard Revenue & Performance Marketing
- Dickies – Lyndi Bell, Vice President Marketing
- Norwegian Cruise Line – Lindsey Morgado, VP Marketing Strategy & Customer Engagement
- Ford Motor Company – Katie Jingozian, Global Director Marketing Strategy & Chief of Staff
- Aramark – Tom Ford, VP Marketing, Strategy and Culinary
- General Motors – Lin-Hua Wu, SVP and Chief Communications & Marketing Officer
🎯 Why this matters for marketing & sponsorship suppliers
Every senior marketing move creates:
- New campaigns
- New budgets and sponsorship strategies
- New tech stack decisions
- New agency reviews
- New growth and brand priorities
⏱️ Timing is critical.
Most marketing leaders set direction – and pick partners – within their first 100 days.
For November’s hires, that covers December → January → February.
🔍 Stay ahead of the movement
Honch tracks every senior marketing hire and promotion across the United Kingdom, United States and Europe so suppliers know:
- Who just stepped in
- Where buying windows are opening
- Which brands are reshaping their strategy
- And when to reach out
If you need to know who’s stepping in, when buying windows open, and where budgets are shifting, Honch is the only platform built specifically to track global marketing hires in real time.
Fast data. Zero guesswork. Total visibility.
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