We're dedicated to bringing our customers the finest leather in the world.

Scottish Leather Group is the leading manufacturer of leather in the United Kingdom and we innovate and manufacture the finest sustainable leather for the world’s most respected companies.

Through our specialist brands – Bridge of Weir, Lang and Muirhead – we lead the leather industry in the responsible and sustainable production of leather to manufacture wide-ranging and high performance leather for iconic brands. We are passionate about leading sustainable manufacturing practices, driving continuous innovation and providing outstanding service to our customers.

Our Customers

Scottish Leather Group is long established with combined experience of over 500 years in tanning and finishing leather. Our specialist leathers are produced for a wide range of industries including the global automotive, aviation, bus, coach, rail, furniture, and consumer goods sectors from our manufacturing facilities located in Scotland, China, and Mexico.

Our customers include Aston Martin, Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Volvo Cars, Boeing, Emirates Airlines, Philips and Mulberry.

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Our Values

Bridge of Weir Leather, Lang and Muirhead have distinct goals and personalities, and as Scottish Leather Group we are united by our company values: We Make it Personal, We are Committed to Quality and We are Naturally Progressive.

The Head of Marketing is responsible for devising and implementing the company’s marketing strategy and plan to support the successful delivery of Scottish Leather Group’s Strategy 2025.

This individual will play a key role in leading the marketing team with “best-in-class” expertise and an empowering leadership style, providing an environment that enables the delivery of effective marketing and communications activity that supports our commercial objectives.

Coupled with creating a strong customer-centric culture, success will require close collaboration with our Design, Innovation, Sales & Account Management, Sustainability and Technical teams to ensure that we grow and sustain a profitable business and deliver our purpose:

“We innovate and manufacture the world’s finest sustainable leather for the world’s most respected companies.”

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and deployment of the Bridge of Weir, Lang, Muirhead and Scottish Leather Group brands to successfully deliver the brand-building and sales activation objectives for each business
  • Support the business with industry leading insights – Macro, Industry, Sector and Customer – which provide a comprehensive view of our external business environment and support our commercial opportunities
  • Develop a customer-centric approach for the business, implementing a CRM plan which fully utilises Scottish Leather Group’s CRM system [Dynamics 365 & Click Dimensions] to support and enhance relationships with our current and prospective customers
  • Act as a brand champion for the Scottish Leather Group – living the Company values, promoting health, safety, and wellbeing, and providing clear vision and leadership to the Marketing Team to deliver excellence in execution across all channels
  • Collaborate closely with HR on Scottish Leather Group’s Employee and Corporate Communications, encouraging increased employee engagement and strengthening our Employer brand
  • Provide clear vision and leadership to the Marketing Team, as well as inspire, motivate and coach to help them develop new skills and support succession planning
  • Establish and be accountable for the annual marketing budget

Skills & Experience

  • Marketing generalist with extensive experience of defining and developing the strategy for a brand(s) on a global basis and a focus on excellence when executing the annual marketing plan across multiple marketing channels
  • Demonstrable experience of developing CRM and digital capabilities from a standing start.
  • Knowledge and expertise of building customer relationships through management of data and development of propositions based on insight. Proactively feeds customer information and insights to the business to drive broader commercial engagement
  • Previous experience of leading the development of a premium brand(s) where differentiation is achieved through quality positioning, product innovation and customer experience will be welcomed. Experience of the Automotive, Aviation, and Luxury Goods sectors is desirable
  • Strong attention to detail with a focus on planning and project management skills to deliver brand-building and sales activation campaigns efficiently and effectively
  • Comfortable working and collaborating with a multitude of internal and external stakeholders including Sales, Account Management, Design, Innovation, Sustainability and Technical functions. Experience working with and leading external partners including brand, communications, and digital agencies
  • Demonstrable leadership and line management skills with a coaching style that supports collaboration, continual improvement, personal and professional growth and empowerment
  • Experience of developing and implementing meaningful KPI’s, targeting key areas of improvement, enabling the ability to celebrate success

Our Benefits

The benefits we offer at Scottish Leather Group:

• 32 days’ holiday entitlement
• Health insurance
• Life assurance
• 5% employer pension contributions
• Discounted gym membership
• Cycle to work scheme

Contact us today to find out more...

Please contact Steph Halliday on stephh@denholmassociates.com or 07539 694 053 for more information about the Scottish Leather Group.

SCOTT CAITHNESS

SENIOR CONSULTANT - MARKETING

Scott started his career working for one of the leading Advertising & Comms agencies in Edinburgh where he spent 7 years before moving in to recruitment in 2011. As such, he is well-networked in the Marketing & Comms space across Scotland. With a friendly and consultative approach, Scott is genuinely passionate about providing a positive journey to both candidates and clients alike and believes communication plays a big part in this.  A “thinking-outside-the-box recruiter”, he is known for helping candidates portray the best version of themselves and helping clients find talent for those hard to fill roles.

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Communication Lead

We’re a passionate and professional team who thrive in issue-rich environment and we’re looking to add a Communication Lead to our fast-growing team. You’ll be a trusted advisor to clients across several sectors in all aspects of communication, external affairs, marketing and issues management. Coming from an agency or consultancy environment, at Account Director level or above, you’ll report directly to the Managing Director and be responsible for a small and busy multi-disciplinary team. You’ll have first-class project management skills, be solutions-driven and excellent commercial acumen too. Alongside the senior team, you’ll work to drive the strategic growth of Aspect.

Your core duties will include:

  • Working with the MD to develop and deliver growth strategies 
  • Attracting and retaining profitable clients across a range of sectors 
  • Leading the creation and execution of strategic communication programmes
  • Inspiring, leading and developing multi-disciplinary teams
  • Developing strong relationships with clients, colleagues and associates
  • Producing high quality pitches and proposals to secure new business 
  • Curating, nurturing and managing a team of talented associates.

You’ll be a skilled communicator, interested and knowledgeable about the key issues shaping the external environment. In addition, to be considered for this role, you must be able to demonstrate:

  • 7+ years of senior leadership experience within an agency or consultancy
  • Experience in Energy, Renewables, Financial Services or Life Sciences would be very desirable
  • Outstanding writing skills and the ability to engage and excite an audience
  • An impressive track record of client attraction, retention and growth 
  • The ability to thrive fast-paced environment managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • Strong influencing and leadership skills to motivate and inspire those around you
  • Excellent planning, evaluation and project management skills
  • To develop new processes, systems and ways of working to drive performance
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Communication Advisors

We’re a passionate and professional team who thrive in issue-rich environment and we’re looking for Senior Communication Advisors, Communications Advisors and Communications Executives to join their fast-growing team. 

You’ll have previous agency experience at Senior Account Manager or Account Manager level and be passionate about delivering excellent results for clients. You might be a specialist in PR and media relations who produces compelling editorial content across a range of topics and sectors or you might be a public affairs expert who understands the policy landscape and helps clients build influential relationships. Whatever your specialism, you’ll be an excellent writer, full of creative ideas, with proven client management experience and the ability to provide expert advice our clients.

Your key duties will include:

  • Supporting the key account lead with day-to-day client liaison, providing strategic counsel on day-to-day account matters when required
  • Active involvement in planning and delivering global PR, marketing and digital campaigns
  • Managing content programmes, including mapping out content themes, spotting industry trends and story angles, writing copy when required which may include opinion articles, web and social
  • Building strong media relationships, creating pitches based on your story ideas and delivering content in-to suit the client’s target media and securing opportunities
  • Planning and running client’s social media programmes, and management of their channels
  • Continuously identifying opportunities to grow brand awareness and profile our client’s businesses within their target sector through events, webinars, thought leadership
  • Producing comprehensive and timely reports on client activity 
  • Supporting in the development of client proposals to help grow or win parts of the business


In addition, to be considered for this role, you must be able to demonstrate:

  • Proven background in account handling and direct client liaison – 4 years’ minimum
  • Experience in an agency setting focusing on B2B communication or PR
  • Strong communications skills, verbal and written
  • A background in delivering creative, digitally led B2B communications such as LinkedIn campaigns
  • An innate understanding of earned media, with the ability to create stories and generate coverage across traditional media, digital and social
  • Experience working on content management programmes, with an awareness of the changing way business audiences consume information and an appreciation of search, paid and wider customer marketing activity, and how it all fits together
  • A history of working with clients in a variety of sectors is welcomed but experience in the tech and energy industries is advantageous.

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ANDY MACEWAN

HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY, CHANGE & TRANSFORMATION

Andy has been recruiting in Technology, Change & Transformation since 2001. Delivering tailored resource solutions as trusted advisor to clients ranging from start-ups through to global blue-chip organisations across contract, permanent, fixed term, and managed service/statement of work solutions. He has experience providing candidates for Helpdesk through to CIO and takes great pride in providing excellent customer service and ensuring each candidate journey is a positive one. An expert in his market he can provide guidance across current market trends.

Our Purpose

Our aim is to combat illicit online trade by identifying and removing counterfeits for sale. Counterfeits not only damage brands, their reputations, and revenues, but can cause significant harm to the end customer – whether as a fake toy or a fake medicine – and the consequences can be life threatening.

Counterfeiting is a significant economic and social issue.

The OECD reports that counterfeit and fake goods make up more than 3.3% of the world’s global trade. Those involved in the trade of counterfeits have been linked to people trafficking, prostitution, and drug dealing.

As such, reducing illicit trade is about much more than brand protection but also about human rights, safety, and social equity.

And this is what we do, every day.

Our People

Our people are our most important asset, and their mental well-being and happiness are core to our success. We love our diverse workforce, actively embrace flexible working (even pre-pandemic!) and encourage a healthy work-life balance. We have been recognised as one of the most diverse SME workplaces in the UK and are holders of the Scottish Business Pledge which exists to promote a fairer Scotland. We have also just been included in the 2021 Culture Leaders Top 25 – an accolade of which we are very proud!

We are a fully inclusive and nurturing employer and, despite being in tech, the majority of our team are women, leading to accolades in the Computing Magazine Women in IT Awards and the Amazon Growing Business Awards. We currently represent 15 nationalities and speak 20 languages. Age is no barrier, and we recruit for attitude, providing and encouraging appropriate learning and training for each and every role.

We are also proud members of IP Inclusive, a network of professionals working to make the intellectual property industry more diverse.

Our Environment

We deliver purpose-driven work from an extremely welcoming environment near the City Centre. We actively encourage the responsible use of resources, from using public transport to reuse, recycling, and, of course, a minimal impact office environment. We have benefited from the advice of the Energy Saving Trust and Resource Efficient Scotland. Our waste contractor also provides us with a monthly report on volumes and types of material and the carbon emissions avoided through recycling.

Over 80% of our employees can walk or cycle to The Lair and, pre-pandemic, 10% were using public transport as their normal daily commuting mode. Without doubt, online meetings will replace considerable miles, going forward, saving resources, time and energy. Where possible, when possible, the train remains our preferred option. 

Our Community

As well as working in close collaboration with our clients, and the online marketplaces, we are active members of groups that have been established to combat illicit trade. These include the Scottish Anti-Illicit Trade Group, the European Intellectual Property Office, The Scottish Business Resilience Centre, the Anti-Counterfeiting Group, and the China Britain Business Council. Members of our senior management sit on the boards of ACID (Anti-Copying in Design), the Scottish Ministerial Trade Board, and the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s Observatory Panel for SMEs, amongst others.

Each team member nominates good causes or charities that are supported on both an individual and corporate basis. Wherever possible, we support the employee’s involvement whether through time or fundraising events.

ANGELA MCCANN

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Having worked in the recruitment industry since 2000, Angela brings a wealth of experience as a Recruitment Professional and a proven track record of delivering a high-quality search and selection service to both public and private companies in the UK and internationally. Angela believes in a partnership approach to recruitment, ensuring a detailed understanding of employer/jobseeker requirements and delivering a bespoke service underpinned by professionalism, pragmatism and strong market knowledge.

JAMES BLYTH

HEAD OF MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING

James has a decade of experience within the FMCG sector where he has partnered with a wide range of businesses placing key appointments at all levels including Director/ Board level. Driving growth across our Manufacturing & Engineering function, James specialises in Production, Operations, Engineering, Quality, HSE, Technical, NPD and Supply Chain. With his passion and expertise in these areas, James supports candidates and clients by working closely to understand their needs and wants providing exceptional service.

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