Margaret Jobling, CMO, NatWest Group

Marg joined NatWest Group in September 2020 as Group Chief Marketing Officer where she has transformed the function to focus on agile ways of working, launched the ‘Tomorrow begins Today’ brand platform and architected the NatWest partnership with Team GB for the Paris Olympics in 2024.  

Marg has spent the majority of her marketing career in FMCG working on some iconic brands such as Lynx, Dove, Radox, Cadbury Dairy Milk and Birds Eye. At the end of 2014, she left FMCG to join the Utilities sector as Director of Marketing at British Gas. At the beginning of 2016, Marg became Group Chief Marketing Officer for Centrica, transforming the firm’s marketing capabilities globally. Some of her key achievements include launching Dove deodorant across Europe; delivering the first ever global Lynx campaign and winning a Cannes Gold Lion for Lynx “Getting Dressed” campaign.  

Marg has been consistently recognised as one of Marketing Week’s Top 100 Most Effective Marketers, as Marketer of the Year by Marketing Week and is a former President of the ISBA.  She is also a specialist adviser to the British Heart Foundation’s Marketing Board. 

Margaret Jobling

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