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Featured Jobs this month…
Marketing Director – South – £100,000 – £125,000 + Bens
Head of PR – £65,000-£75,000
Marketing Communications Manager - £42,000 – £48,000
PR & Communications Manager – to £45,000
Partner / Channel Marketing Manager – £40,000 – £45,000
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Marketing Director – South - £100,000 – £125,000 + Bens
Fixed Term Contract for 6 months initially to start ASAP (long term sickness cover)
(REF: NL1421 – apply now)
Our client is a major player in the B2B financial services market. They are looking for a proactive and experienced Interim Marketing Director initially for 6 months with a strong B2B financial marketing background.
This role will be focussed on the cards business and will be targeted with driving forward the marketing efforts within this business. You will be responsible for managing 6 direct reports and will develop and lead the marketing strategy, including budget management. You will be tasked with developing the card product portfolio – including product development, as well as managing Marketing Communications, managing research and PR.
This role requires someone who is available straight away for an immediate start.
Experience:
- Significant marketing management experience at a senior level in blue chip B2B business including, product management, promotional marketing and campaigns, Marketing strategies and delivery of plans
- Indepth Marketing experience, at a senior level, in credit/payment cards
- Working knowledge of card mechanisms and regulations
- Effective commercial management including budgets, contract negotiation as well as supplier management
- Experience of delivering new products
- Proven track record in inspirational team leadership and development
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills at all business levels
- Marketing Degree
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Head of PR – London – £65,000-£75,000
(REF: NL1415 – apply now)
Our client is a major UK organisation looking for an experienced PR professional with a background in the personal financial sector to develop and implement a PR strategy that builds the brand, promotes its product portfolio and delivers positive media coverage which is also supportive of the wider brand.
Main Responsibilities:
- Identify proactive media stories, maximising opportunities for coverage by adapting and adopting appropriate media and PR techniques
- Deliver a high volume and quality of on message media coverage through a wide range of print, broadcast and new media outlets
- Develop an internal comms strategy
- Develop and maintain high level contact with journalists.
- Contribute articles and high quality copy for a range of audiences
- Act as a media spokesperson and represent the organisation externally.
- Support the relationships with key product partners
- Make recommendations about resource
- Ensure People Management processes and procedures are adhered to.
- Ensure the right culture, skills, knowledge, and experience are in place Effectively manage any external
- Work closely with Group Head of PR/ Media in strategic and operational development and planning to
- Develop key performance indicators and ensure effective evaluation of media work.
Experience of:
- Delivering high quality product PR and brand-building media coverage
- Working at a senior, strategic level within the personal finance sector.
- Managing the reputation of an organisation which operates under the scrutiny of its stakeholders and the media
- Managing complex issues and competing demands
- Working in a fast-moving media environment and of working with senior journalists
- Managing internal media team and external agencies.
- Acting as a media spokesperson
- Working collaboratively with senior internal stakeholders
- Managing a budget
- Ability to work within a highly regulated business
- Expert knowledge of the media
- Excellent understanding of personal finance sector and related regulations and compliance
- Strong people management skills
- Good financial management and budgeting skills
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Marketing Communications Manager – London - £42,000 – £48,000
Contract until 30th June 2012 initially
(REF: NL1422 – apply now)
Our client is a major global brand with headquarters in the London Area. They are seeking an Interim Marketing Communications Manager. The purpose of this role is to plan, execute and track Marketing campaigns. Specific areas of responsibility include: social media and website management, CRM, promotions, and partner liaison.
The team is responsible for delivering consumer marketing communications programmes in the UK in order to drive key metrics.
Key Accountabilities:
As a small team, this role offers a terrific opportunity for the right individual to help drive strategy and help shape overall marketing plans.
Responsibilities include:
- Manage social media strategy and management, including briefing and working with agencies, day to day liaison with community manager and tracking/reporting
- Manage promotions, including liaising with developers and internal stakeholders, creating social marketing ideas and working with the developers and agencies to implement them,
- Manage monthly newsletter creation (including writing), distribution and tracking
- Local liaison for the website and various video and other assets – reviewing copy and liaising with the developers to make local updates
- Partner liaison with OEM partners for creative approvals as needed
- Support the team in achieving overall objectives
- Interpret briefs, and translate them into marketing communication plans .
- Project plan individual campaigns to ensure successful & timely delivery
- Write creative briefs, and manage the local creative development process
- Manage agencies (typically social media and design) and gain internal stakeholder approval
- Work alongside PR projects to ensure campaigns are integrated
- Meetings with external partners to align co-marketing plans
- Tagging activity and trafficking final creative on and off-network
- Monitor ongoing campaign performance, in order to optimize individual campaigns to maximize the return on investment.
- Relationship marketing campaign or program plan
- Develop and execute planning process
- Conduct campaign de-briefings & continuous program reporting
- Financial management
Background:
- Experience in marketing communications for consumer products is required (preferably in telecoms/technology, but not a must).
- Experience with social media and or PR is required.
- Experience in managing internal and external creative resources, vendors and partner agencies is required
- An affinity for mobile consumer products and digital entertainment is mandatory
- Global consumer marketing experience is strongly preferred
- Experience with digital media & online campaign building is strongly preferred
- Experience with a telecoms operator or within the telecoms sector is preferred
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PR & Communications Manager – London - to £45,000
Interim starting ASAP for 3 months initially with a view to going permanent
(REF: NL1414 – apply now)
Our client is a major UK organisation looking for an experienced PR professional with a background in the consumer financial services sector to develop and implement a PR strategy that builds the brand, promotes its product portfolio and delivers positive media coverage which is also supportive of the wider brand.
Main Responsibilities:
- To deliver a fully integrated external Public Relations strategy – different proactive programmes for brand/corporate and consumer PR on national, regional and local levels
- To manage all reactive and negative PR/reputational risk and crisis comms.
- Work with internal stakeholders across the group to ensure the agreed communications strategy and plan supports the delivery of the annual budget and agreed coverage targets
- Ensure the company’s corporate objectives are shared with the team and agency
- Manage and implement internal consumer and corporate communications strategy.
- Support the management of relationships with product partner media teams in planning and creative development process.
- Manage all PR activity to react to industry challenges/activities such as increased target audiences, differing media landscape and ensure the opportunity to raise enterprise profile is maximised at all times through media stories and agenda relevant to market space.
Required Skills:
- Significant experience in PR, plus marketing ,advertising, and internal communications gained within the consumer financial services sector
- Innovative, creative and inspiring
- Experience in crisis management and reputational risk
- Excellent writing skills
- Experience in dealing with external agencies and process suppliers
- Experienced PC user including writing and layout work using Word and PowerPoint (Excel and Project also desirable).
- Highly literate with excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Highly motivated “self-starter” – able to set priorities and work to objectives and monitor budgets without regular supervision.
- Enjoys using their well-developed persuasion and interpersonal skills.
- Able to direct and motivate internal and external customers and suppliers
- Good organisational and administrative ability.
- Excellent eye for detail.
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Partner / Channel Marketing Manager – Reading - £40,000 – £45,000
To start ASAP – Contract will run until – 30th June 2012
(REF: NL1400 – apply now)
Description of Role and Duties:
Our client is looking for a Partner/Channel Marketing Manager who will be responsible for the development and implementation of co-partner marketing with UK OEM partner accounts as well as providing a support role to the other Co-partner Marketing Managers.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential Experience
- Experienced in a partner marketing or technology related roles
- Providing detailed reporting on ROI of Marketing activities and understanding the difference between incremental sales and run rate and how to achieve the former.
- Ability to work in a high pressure environment whilst delivering against tactics effectively and accurately.
- Ability to take Market Intelligence and use this to identify market opportunities
- Ability to Prioritise activities in line with goals.
- Ability to work cross group
- Good Knowledge of the overall IT industry and market.
Technical/Functional Skills
- Experience of working in the channel would be an advantage to be successful in this role.
- Core marketing skills (effective use of the marketing mix)
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Core presentation skills / confidence
- Ability to develop value propositions for Partners against key products
- Ability to manage budgets / proven numeric ability
- Very organised
Personal Attributes/Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to develop strong relationships at multiple levels
- Ability to manage a very large and fluctuating workload with multiple priorities, deadlines and contacts in a fast paced environment
- Great verbal, telephone and written communication skills
- Very strong team player but with ability to work on own initiative
- Customer focused and Customer satisfaction oriented
Qualifications
- Relevant degree or Institute of Marketing qualification
- Marketing experience (in software industry preferred)
- Relevant marketing experience (in OEM or in the Partner channel)
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