Marketing Communications Manager
- Recruiter
- The SmartList
- Location
- Cambridge
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 23 Aug 2017
- Closes
- 30 Aug 2017
- Sectors
- Marketing, PR & Advertising
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Title: Marketing Communications Manager
Permanent - Full time
Salary: GBP32,100 - GBP43,300
Location: Cambridge
What it's about
The Marketing Communications Manager plays a vital role within Cambridge English, ensuring marketing activities, initiatives and messaging are closely aligned to high-level business objectives. As Marketing Communications Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of large-scale, multi-channel marketing campaigns for the Schools sector, as well as ensuring consistent messaging is applied globally across a range of channels and marketing materials. This will require close collaboration with colleagues across the business and around the world so good communication skills, along with an ability to prioritise, are extremely important. This is a diverse and multi-faceted role within a fast-paced team so the chosen candidate will need to be pro-active and enthusiastic.
What you'll be doing
• Working collaboratively with the Schools sector team to ensure marketing initiatives, activities and channels are closely aligned to high level business objectives.
• Creating and implementing marketing communications plans across all channels including social, digital, print, advertising and events.
• Developing, implementing and project managing global multi-channel marketing campaigns; monitoring and evaluating campaigns to ensure agreed objectives are met; keeping stakeholders up to date with overall project progress and managing risk proactively; ensuring campaign performance is measured against success criteria.
• Working closely with internal colleagues and external agencies to ensure consistent and effective messaging is implemented across all channels and marketing materials globally.
What we're looking for
• Substantial experience in a marketing role (Essential)
• Line management experience (Essential)
• Outstanding project management experience, especially management of complex marketing projects, including planning, prioritisation of tasks, monitoring of progress and reporting. (Essential)
• Experience in working on large scale, multi-channel marketing campaigns with a strong understanding of digital marketing. (Essential)
• Excellent copywriting skills (Essential)
• Excellent standard of spoken and written English (Essential)
• First-class communication and interpersonal skills (Essential)
• Strategic thinker who can understand complex issues and come up with solutions (Desirable)
• Excellent time management and organisational skills with an ability to prioritise a heavy workload (Essential)
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills (Desirable)
• Strong analytical skills (Desirable)
Who we are
Cambridge English Language Assessment is a part of Cambridge Assessment, a department of the University of Cambridge. We are the global leader in English language assessment. We help people learn English and prove their skills to the world. We provide exams in English for speakers of other languages taken by over 5 million candidates worldwide each year, as well as the leading range of qualifications for language teachers.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leader and be rewarded with valuable learning opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits.
Benefits
• Generous contributory pension
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Annual performance related bonus and increases (discretionary)
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay and childcare voucher scheme
• Employee discount and cash back scheme at 1,200 retailers
• Cycle scheme
• Subsidised canteens
• Support for professional qualifications
Permanent - Full time
Salary: GBP32,100 - GBP43,300
Location: Cambridge
What it's about
The Marketing Communications Manager plays a vital role within Cambridge English, ensuring marketing activities, initiatives and messaging are closely aligned to high-level business objectives. As Marketing Communications Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of large-scale, multi-channel marketing campaigns for the Schools sector, as well as ensuring consistent messaging is applied globally across a range of channels and marketing materials. This will require close collaboration with colleagues across the business and around the world so good communication skills, along with an ability to prioritise, are extremely important. This is a diverse and multi-faceted role within a fast-paced team so the chosen candidate will need to be pro-active and enthusiastic.
What you'll be doing
• Working collaboratively with the Schools sector team to ensure marketing initiatives, activities and channels are closely aligned to high level business objectives.
• Creating and implementing marketing communications plans across all channels including social, digital, print, advertising and events.
• Developing, implementing and project managing global multi-channel marketing campaigns; monitoring and evaluating campaigns to ensure agreed objectives are met; keeping stakeholders up to date with overall project progress and managing risk proactively; ensuring campaign performance is measured against success criteria.
• Working closely with internal colleagues and external agencies to ensure consistent and effective messaging is implemented across all channels and marketing materials globally.
What we're looking for
• Substantial experience in a marketing role (Essential)
• Line management experience (Essential)
• Outstanding project management experience, especially management of complex marketing projects, including planning, prioritisation of tasks, monitoring of progress and reporting. (Essential)
• Experience in working on large scale, multi-channel marketing campaigns with a strong understanding of digital marketing. (Essential)
• Excellent copywriting skills (Essential)
• Excellent standard of spoken and written English (Essential)
• First-class communication and interpersonal skills (Essential)
• Strategic thinker who can understand complex issues and come up with solutions (Desirable)
• Excellent time management and organisational skills with an ability to prioritise a heavy workload (Essential)
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills (Desirable)
• Strong analytical skills (Desirable)
Who we are
Cambridge English Language Assessment is a part of Cambridge Assessment, a department of the University of Cambridge. We are the global leader in English language assessment. We help people learn English and prove their skills to the world. We provide exams in English for speakers of other languages taken by over 5 million candidates worldwide each year, as well as the leading range of qualifications for language teachers.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leader and be rewarded with valuable learning opportunities, a competitive salary and benefits.
Benefits
• Generous contributory pension
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Annual performance related bonus and increases (discretionary)
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay and childcare voucher scheme
• Employee discount and cash back scheme at 1,200 retailers
• Cycle scheme
• Subsidised canteens
• Support for professional qualifications