Beaphar UK – Running the Digital Function & Aligning Trade
Role: Digital Marketing Executive (Sep 2024 – Present) · Sole UK digital hire responsible for the end‑to‑end digital marketing function.
1) Context
- Business: Beaphar – pet healthcare products with strong seasonality and regulated claims.
- Challenge: Establish a coherent UK digital engine that integrates with the sales/trade calendar and the central EU brand team, while improving measurement and channel performance.
- Scope: Strategy → execution across SEO/SEM, email, content ops, website optimisation (SEMrush/Ahrefs/GA4), and reporting.
2) Approach
- Own the function: Act as the single point for planning, execution and measurement across digital channels — with tight alignment to Sales and the Netherlands-based central team.
- Trade alignment: Map seasonal priorities (e.g. summer anti‑parasite, winter calming) to content, email and partner assets. Ensure timing and messaging match trade activity.
- Email programme rebuild: Clean the legacy list (suppress non‑engaged), then build a broader B2B trade list — ultimately moving from ~550 to ~1,500 relevant contacts, with Deal Sheet open rates consistently above 60%.
- Campaign systems: Introduce templates for briefs, UTMs, QA checklists, and monthly reporting cadence to drive iteration.
- Sampling automation: Design a lightweight automation to collect testimonials and structured feedback for upcoming sampling (forms, tags, follow‑ups).
- Website optimisation: Use GA4, SEMrush and Ahrefs to prioritise technical/semantic fixes and new content opportunities.
3) Outputs
- UK 2025 Digital Strategy with objectives, channel roadmaps, and KPIs.
- Sales‑ready resources (guides, PDFs, product explainers) used by the Sales team and retail partners in their own campaigns.
- Email programme split by audience (NPD, Deal Sheet, and broader trade) with seasonal sequences and asset packs.
- Search improvements (metadata, internal linking, on‑page refinements) prioritised by opportunity size.
4) Results & Learning
- CTR outperformance: The UK anti‑parasite campaign delivered ~60× higher CTR than EU peers due to product‑solution‑led creative and tighter audience alignment.
- Email engagement: Trade “Deal Sheet” emails consistently achieve >60% open rates post‑cleaning and segmentation.
- Operational clarity: A single reporting cadence improved decision‑making and cross‑team alignment (Sales, UK marketing, EU brand).
- Next: Launch sampling automation and scale testimonial capture to enrich seasonal campaigns.
5) Stack
Performance Highlights (Sept 2025)
- Conversion rate: 53.4% (+10.6 pp MoM, +24.8%)
- CPA (Google Ads): £1.92 (–4% MoM; –8.8% YoY)
- CTR: 5.4% (+0.14 pp MoM)
- Paid Social: Facebook impressions +151% (≈806k); Instagram views +389% (≈200k)
- Monthly conversions: 1,249 (24.5% of all key events)
Note: Organic traffic softened post anti‑parasite season (–29.4%), but efficiency rose sharply.
Analytics & SEO: GA4, Search Console, SEMrush, Ahrefs
Channels: Email (ESP), SEO content, PPC (as required), partner assets
Ops: Brief templates, UTM governance, reporting dashboards, automation
6) Screenshots & Assets (placeholders)
Add your own images below. Suggested proof points:
- One trade email (header + offer structure)
- IA sketch or system diagram snippet
- GA4/Ahrefs charts (anonymised)
- Before/after for a key landing page
Beaphar UK – Digital Function & Trade Alignment
Status: draft placeholder — replace sections with your details.
1) Context
Owning the UK digital function — campaign management, email, SEO/SEM and reporting, aligned to seasonal trade and central brand guidance.
- Audience: [Who you targeted]
- Objectives: [e.g., increase trade engagement, improve seasonal CTR, grow organic traffic]
- Constraints: [e.g., timelines, budget, assets, regulated claims]
2) Approach
- Strategy: [Channel mix, sequencing, seasonal alignment]
- Execution: [Email, SEO/SEM, content, assets, sampling ops]
- Tooling: GA4, Search Console, SEMrush, Ahrefs, ESP, dashboards
- AI use: [Content ops, QA, data extraction, automation]
3) Outputs
- Key assets (emails, landing pages, social, partner kits)
- Data capture and reporting cadence
- Examples/screenshots (insert images here)
4) Results & Learning
- Performance highlights (CTR, traffic, engagement, partner usage)
- What worked / what didn’t
- Next steps to iterate
5) Stack
Core: GA4, Search Console, SEMrush, Ahrefs, ESP
Aux: Python/Node scripts, automation, dashboards
