Marketing Manager - Research Agency

Manchester

£45k - JB114

The Business

A global market research agency that work with some of the world's largest and best-known brands, are looking to hire a Marketing Manager to help develop their global marketing strategy. This agency carry out bespoke research projects across any sector with the aim of helping B2B brands grow.

They were initially set up as a father & son combo in 1998 and have now grown to 90 people split over 3 continents. HQ is still in Manchester with another UK satellite office in London. They have recently been acquired by a larger network but have been able to keep their family feel.

The Role

As Marketing Manager, your main remit will be to develop the current marketing strategy for the agency and manage all current marketing activity. The internal marketing team currently stands at 4 with 2 creatives, a digital marketer and you...! Some of the key responsibilities are below;

• Planning, coordinating and implementing marketing campaigns (online and offline)
• Strategy & Operations
• Thought leadership / content marketing
• Work with PR content to publish on respected industry sites (for exposure and SEO benefits)
• Review and make recommendations on which events to attend / sponsor / speak at / exhibit at (globally)

This is a particularly exciting role as you'll join a growing team and this role has the potential to become a Head of role for the right candidate.

What we need from you

To be considered for this role, you will have at least 4 years marketing experience, ideally coming from a B2B background. It's key to note that this isn't essential but will be very well received. You'll also have a strong understanding of online & offline marketing practices.

But what do I get…?

On top of a generous salary package on offer, there is a list of benefits as long as your arm. I've picked some of my personal favourites below;

• 25 days' holiday (plus 8 UK bank holidays and your birthday off)
• Life assurance (based on 4 x salary)
• Gym subsidy
• Charitable fundraising days (cake sales, etc.) and volunteering opportunities (2 working days can be taken each year for volunteering)
• Regular appraisals/check-ins with line managers
• Comprehensive, internal training programme and external training budget

If you think this could be for you, then please do apply directly or send CVs

Head of Content - B2B Technology Scale-Up - £50,000

From humble beginnings in 2012, this company now employee over 60 people at their cutting edge, purpose-built offices. Their enterprise B2B software is loved by some of the world's leading companies and they are growing exponentially. They are an engineering-led company and an agile, innovative team, meaning the entire focus is on product excellence and delighting customers.

About the Role

They are looking for an experienced Head of Content to take full ownership of the content strategy output. This person will manage one full time content writer and will work alongside the lead generation, tech evangelist and web teams to ensure high quality content is produced at scale and is effectively presented across website and e-mail campaigns. While this role requires management skills (proof-reading and project management), you will also be required to write original copy individually.

Key responsibilities

• Take ownership of the end-to-end content production pipeline and messaging, including managing one full time content writer, project-manage internal subject matter experts and external sources.
• Review and maintain content calendar, ensuring timely delivery.
• Review and uphold tone of voice and messaging consistency across all properties.
• Write content pieces from scratch, including desk research, interviews all the way to 1^st draft.
• Deliverables include web pages, sales enablement materials, case studies, blogposts, interviews, videos scripts, webinars and SEO keywords input to lead generation team.
• Review, edit and deliver high quality content quickly, including case studies, interviews & blogposts.
• Decide the most effective way of presenting content inventory, with inputs from the lead generation and web UX teams.

About you

• At least 5 years in roles where writing or proof-reading technical copy was a big part of your job.
• High-output, high-quality technical content writer.
• Your work should require little or no review & edits before publishing.
• Excellent proof-reading skills in the tech industry, ideally in software.

What will you get in return?

• Great culture: We put culture first and believe in creating a great environment where people are happy to come to work every day.
• Stunning office: Picture yourself in a brand-new, state-of-the-art office
• Edge technology: Use the latest tools & practices in every area of the business to work fast and smart
• Gadgets galore: Fancy a sit-stand desk? Want to try out an Oculus Rift or Microsoft HoloLens? Look no further
• Smart colleagues: Be part of a great team, working with talented, like-minded peers
• Take a break: Eat some free snacks or a great coffee and relax with a game of table-football or ping-pong
• Social: From tech meetups to rollercoasters, from poker to board games, from Star Wars to cocktails, there's always tons going on.
• BENEFITS: 10% pension, Private Health, 25 days holiday, competitive Salaries.

The company are a small but rapidly growing tech start-up in incubation phase. They were spun out from, and are backed by, their parent company who are a hugely successful and profitable tech scale up. The parent company were founded in 2011 are fast becoming the best dashboarding tool for Enterprise IT and DevOps. While delivering SCOM based dashboards, they parent company came across a number of opportunities in SCOM itself that it felt would be best delivered by a dedicated team - so this exciting startUp were born.

They were established early in 2019 to give Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (aka SCOM) some much needed love, filling core platform holes, extending its core capabilities and integrating it into other tools such as ServiceNow - the best of breed ITOM and ITSM platform on the market.

The Role

You will be the first Marketeer in a small but rapidly growing company. You will be responsible for establishing digital presence, overseeing events and all aspects of product marketing. Your work will be instrumental in the success of the business

Key responsibilities:

• Producing eye-catching, engaging content such as infographics, videos, blogs and more
• Delivering beautifully designed and intelligently crafted emails
• Creating lead nurture automation in existing automation platform (ActiveCampaign)
• Helping capitalise on the many leads free downloads generate
• Setting up and owning Google AdWords to promote products
• SEO optimization
• Creating great posts to grow social media following and engagement
• Helping plan and manage events in the UK and around the world, with opportunities to attend too
• Using best-of-breed digital technologies like ActiveCampaign, Wordpress, Google Analytics, and more

The successful candidate will have:

• 3 years experience in digital marketing
• Experience in marketing software products
• A bachelors degree
• Take a hands on approach
• Pride in the work you do
• Passion for your role and field
• The drive to start something from scratch and the grit to stick with it when the journey is hard

What will you get in return?

• 25 days holiday Bank Holidays
• Top tier pension scheme
• Private Healthcare
• 10% company bonus
• Core hours of 10am-4pm
• Some flexible / remote working offered

Originally starting off as a B2B agency back in 2002, this fantastic agency has really broadened their horizons to cover branding, strategy, digital, events, advertising and more.

Based in an excellent Surrey location, with satellite offices in Birmingham and London, they cover a wide area. Their team of made of up of around 40 creatives, designers, strategists, writers and developers at your disposal, as well as some excellent client services folk you'd be working closely with.

This role has come about through growth of a relatively new client from 2019. This client underwent a rebrand of one of its areas, and there's now a requirement for a Senior Account Manager to be split between Guildford (2 days), and the client's HQ in London (3 days).

You'd have a direct report into the agency's Client Services Director, and you'd be tasked with providing an excellent level of services for the client, who's in the financial services sector. Being the client contact, you'd be taking briefs and relaying things back accurately to the agency's creative team, managing the process along the way.

Knowledge of digital marketing, video and print is essential, immense attention to detail, a naturally inquisitive nature and strong organisational skills are all a must.

Alongside the salary of £40k, there's an excellent list of benefits that are all under their Flex Plux scheme, these can range from childcare vouchers, holiday trading, Cycle to work scheme, preferential rates for car purchases/services, private medical assurance, health club and wellbeing scheme, life assurance and more.

If you could be interested in an exciting and diverse client services role with an agency that covers a wide range of platforms, then look no further.

Content is king, and these guys are the kinds of content, well, in the B2B space anyway. They work with some of the most exciting, ground-breaking, household, and most renowned tech brands in the world. They're tasked by these tech clients to produce engaging content that turns heads, alters perceptions, changes behaviours and influences decisions.

They've been around since 2003, and since then have grown to roughly 60 people in their South West London studio. Incredibly relaxed, chilled vibe in the office and a genuine family feel to the place.

Given that content is what they do, and do well, video and moving picture is one of the most engaging forms out there. This means Motion Graphics Designers are crucial to their success, which is where you could come in…

At present there's one other motion designer who leads the team, you'd be reporting into them. The scope of work could range from eBooks, to social media videos, landing page animations, but all centring around telling a great story and grabbing the audience's attention.

You'd ideally be able to use After Effects and Cinema 4D, whilst having experience with Redshift, Octane and/or Cinema 4D renders, south editing/grading in Premiere Pro and generally being able to use the wider Adobe suite.

You'd be expected to work on projects from start to finish, storyboarding and prototyping ideas, then delivering them with precision, taking the user on a journey that really highlights a brand's powerful identity.

Salary is paying up to £45k, there's 25 days' holiday (plus Xmas shut down) a company trip abroad every Xmas (Budapest last year, Lisbon the year before), massive scope for learning and development, cycle to work scheme and a 5% pension scheme.

If this is a bit of you, then don't hesitate to send over a CV and showreel bursting with brand stories, excitement and tantalising transitions.

This well-regarded, 35 strong agency, has been around since 2002 operating in the B2B tech space. In order to challenge the agencies at the top table they've decided they require a Head of Development to drive their digital department forward.

As the Head of Development, you'll be the digital face of the agency, leading and inspiring clients, devising strategies for ground-breaking projects, conceiving cutting edge ideas, and getting the most out of your team.

Due to the nature of the team, you'd still be required to be hands-on at times, often leading from the front as a role model. You'll be a problem solver, have a calm head on your shoulders, have a strong commercial focus and be able to manage the workflow through your team.

Desirable Skills:

• Advanced PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, JavaScript knowledge
• Strong LAMP stack knowledge and experience
• Experience of Content Management Systems such as Drupal/WordPress
• Solid experience overseeing medium to large scale digital projects
• Experience of solutions design and/or system architecture
• Solid understanding of 'Object Oriented' programming and MVC frameworks such as Zend/Symfony2
• Proficient knowledge of front-end performance testing and optimization techniques
• Strong understanding of email and MA platforms including Eloqua, Marketo, Hubspot and Pardot
• Thorough understanding of performance and scalability
• Experience of team management and motivation

Aside from the salary on offer of up to £80k, there's also plenty of parking, 22 days' holiday (rising to a maximum of 25 with service), monthly company lunches, free eye tests, fizzy drinks fridge, Nespresso coffee machine, discretionary WFH days, flexible working (within reason) monthly socials, and a 3% pension, and of course, the chance to be part of something amazing.

Please ensure you send over a detailed CV and a folio brimming links to cutting edge projects you've been involved with.

The company are a small but rapidly growing tech start-up in incubation phase. They were spun out from, and are backed by, their parent company who are a hugely successful and profitable tech scale up. The parent company were founded in 2011 are fast becoming the best dashboarding tool for Enterprise IT and DevOps. While delivering SCOM based dashboards, they parent company came across a number of opportunities in SCOM itself that it felt would be best delivered by a dedicated team - so this exciting startUp were born.

They were established early in 2019 to give Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (aka SCOM) some much needed love, filling core platform holes, extending its core capabilities and integrating it into other tools such as ServiceNow - the best of breed ITOM and ITSM platform on the market.

The Role

You will be the first Marketeer in a small but rapidly growing company. You will be responsible for establishing digital presence, overseeing events and all aspects of product marketing. Your work will be instrumental in the success of the business

Key responsibilities:

• Producing eye-catching, engaging content such as infographics, videos, blogs and more
• Delivering beautifully designed and intelligently crafted emails
• Creating lead nurture automation in existing automation platform (ActiveCampaign)
• Helping capitalise on the many leads free downloads generate
• Setting up and owning Google AdWords to promote products
• SEO optimization
• Creating great posts to grow social media following and engagement
• Helping plan and manage events in the UK and around the world, with opportunities to attend too
• Using best-of-breed digital technologies like ActiveCampaign, Wordpress, Google Analytics, and more

The successful candidate will have:

• 3 years experience in digital marketing
• Experience in marketing software products
• A bachelors degree
• Take a hands on approach
• Pride in the work you do
• Passion for your role and field
• The drive to start something from scratch and the grit to stick with it when the journey is hard

What will you get in return?

• 25 days holiday Bank Holidays
• Top tier pension scheme
• Private Healthcare
• 10% company bonus
• Core hours of 10am-4pm
• Some flexible / remote working offered