Chambers joins the Evening Standard from Premiership football club Charlton Athletic where he is commercial director. He leaves Charlton at the end of the week after just over a year in the job.
He is best known for his spell as a senior marketer at Marks & Spencer, where he oversaw the launch of the retail giant's high-profile TV brand advertising debut, which showed a naked woman running up a hill shouting "I'm normal". He left M&S after his role was consolidated as part of a departmental restructure.
Chambers will take on the role of brand controller at the Evening Standard, reporting to managing director Mike Anderson.
His appointment comes less than a year after the newspaper's previous top marketer, Jane Hayman, was made redundant from her post as marketing director. She has since joined the women's fashion retailer Principles.
Anderson, the managing director of free morning newspaper Metro, joined the Standard in September, replacing Sally de la Bedoyere, who left after 15 years following rumours of a falling-out with the paper's editor Veronica Wadley.
Since Wadley's appointment earlier this year, the Standard has failed to show a marked improvement in sales, despite her attempts to turn it into a more women-friendly product with an emphasis on lifestyle and entertainment news.
Chambers is one of a number of recent recruits at the paper. Last month, the Standard appointed Alan Brydon, the former managing director of Tempus-owned media planning and buying agency CIA, to replace Mike Orlov as advertising sales director.
The news comes as Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond is threatening to launch a free London newspaper, called the Evening Mail, to challenge the Standard.
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