Senior Digital Marketing Strategist - Swimming National Governing Body

Senior Digital Marketing Strategist - Swimming National Governing Body
SportPark, Loughborough, LE11
£40,800 + Comprehensive Benefits Package (see below)

35 Hours per week (9am – 5pm)

We are the national governing body for swimming in England. We help people learn how to swim, enjoy the water, and compete in our sports of swimming, diving, water polo and synchronised swimming.

We are seeking a Senior Digital Marketing Strategist to join our team on a permanent basis. The role will internally be known as Head of Digital.

This is an exciting opportunity working within the Commercial and Marketing Department as part of a busy Digital team. You will be responsible for determining the digital strategy with the Chief Commercial and Marketing Officer to support marketing objectives. You will champion strategy across the organisation, maximising income and lowering organisational costs through use of digital channels.

You will be responsible for managing, determining and prioritising a central digital budget to meet objectives across the organisation. You will lead the digital team to provide industry leading digital solutions services to the organisation, ensuring cost effective digital solutions and constantly finding ways to streamline processes and reduce cost.

The successful candidate must:

+ Be educated to degree level or equivalent 
+ Have commercial acumen
+ Have proven experience of digital advertising processes
+ Have an understanding of Content Management Systems

Required Skills & Knowledge:

+ Digital development strategy and management 
+ Managing multiple digital agencies for project delivery 
+ General digital project management. 
+ Search engine optimisation strategy and deployment and PPC in programs such as Adwords and Google Doubleclick 
+ Ability to determine, set and manage budgets 
+ Excellent written and spoken communication skills 
+ Ability to lead and motivate a team, set objects and manage performance 
+ Digital infrastructure such as cloud based hosting, databases, web and mobile applications. 
+ Understanding of Content Management Systems and managing large scale digital publishing processes 
+ Monitoring, analysing, and website planning from use of web tools: Google Analytics, Google Webmaster, Bing Webmaster, Google Consumer Surveys 
+ Understand digital advertising processes and delivery 

Benefits we offer:

+ Increasing Annual Leave
+ Childcare Vouchers
+ Cycle to Work Scheme
+ Dive in Deal discount portal
+ Eye Testing & Eyewear
+ Fitness
+ Hours of Work Full time hours for the majority of roles are 35 hours a week Mon –Fri
+ Career Progression
+ Learning and Development
+ Life Assurance
+ Private Health Care
+ Pension

So if you feel you have the suitable skills and attributes for this position then we would like to hear from you.

This organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to inclusion and embrace the spirit of all equalities legislation. 

Please be advised that we cannot offer visa sponsorship and that you must have right to work status to apply or be considered for this role. If you are a non UK/EU National, you must have an appropriate working Visa to undertake employment. 

To apply for this role please:

+ Send your CV and cover letter outlining the skills and experience you can bring to this role referring to the advert, person specification and job description.

Include as much detail as possible to support your application, we receive hundreds of applications so make yours stand out! (We would recommend at least 300 words.) 

Closing date: Midnight 15th April 2018 (Applications after this time will not be considered)
Interview date: Thursday 19th April 2018 – date non-negotiable, if you have an interview you will be notified on Monday 16th April 2018 by 5pm. 
Second round interviews will be held on Monday 23rd April 2018.

You may have worked in the following capacities:
Digital Manager, Digital Marketing Manager, Head of Digital, Digital Lead, Digital Strategy Manager.

Interested? Just Apply Below...

...But first a little formality. By applying you explicitly consent to us processing & passing your application to our client for review for this vacancy only. If your skills match the role you will hear back from us within 2 business days. If you have any pre-application questions please contact us quoting the job title & ref. Good luck, Team RR.