East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire) is a well-respected and award winning membership, representation and business support organisation that aims to enhance businesses and communities in the three cities and three counties. With more than 4,100 members and working with 12,000 businesses each year, we have established a reputation as the voice of the region’s business community.
Job title: Head of Marketing
Salary: £45,000 to £50,000 per annum (dependant on skills and experience)
Based at: Chesterfield, Leicester or Nottingham with agile working. Additional travel required
Contract: Fixed term until 31 March 2026 to cover for a period of maternity leave, full-time (35 hours per week)
1. WHY THE POST EXISTS
Are you a marketing senior leader with proven management skills? Do you have experience in planning, developing and leading targeted lifecycle campaigns across a variety of channels? If so, then we want to hear from you.
The Chamber is seeking an experienced Head of Marketing who will be responsible for supporting the design, development and implementation of the Chambers marketing strategy to deliver several core objectives that support the Chamber business plan.
The post-holder will also lead and develop ongoing marketing campaigns to help support Chamber key performance indicators and department objectives.
2. THE KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
- Support the design, development and implementation of the Chamber Marketing Strategy in line with the business’ KPIs.
- Collaborate on the development and implementation of the CRM Strategy for the Chamber that maximises the functionality of the Dynamics 365 for Marketing automation application to deliver improved and targeted campaigns resulting in more prospects converting into good quality business relationships.
- Continually review marketing and CRM analytics and insights to shape the marketing strategy with a focus on what content drives the best engagement and response amongst different target audiences.
- Work closely with the Data Integrity & CRM Manager and participate in meetings that contribute to discussions relating to the Chamber’s customer data including how we collect it, how we manage it, cleaning it, protection, compliance and privacy.
- Ensure brand message and identity is consistent across all channels and marketing communications.
For more information please visit our website.
3. IDEALLY APPLICANTS WILL POSSESS
- Relevant and demonstrable experience of managing digital services provision with a business context.
- Proven experience of managing a marketing team.
- Proven experience of leading end-to-end email campaigns, including planning, coordinating, segmenting, targeting, set-up, testing, broadcasting, reporting and optimisation.
- Proven track record of analysing data sets and applying data to build insight to shape personalised marketing activities.
- Experience of working with a diverse range of businesses.
- Self-starter, able to think creatively and identify new avenues for business generation.
4. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN RETURN
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays each year (pro rata for part time).
- 8% non-contributory pension scheme.
- Wellbeing support including access to Westfield Health plan, Mental Health First Aiders, self help toolkits, discounts and more.
- Your Birthday off plus an extra day of leave after 5 and 10 years' service.
- Life assurance (death in service support scheme) for your beneficiaries.
- Dress for the day policy and agile working practices (role dependent).
- 2 CSR days to take per year (volunteering activity).
- Access to tax-free childcare and Bike2Work schemes.
- Special leave for bereavement, compassionate leave & dependent related time off.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Flexibility to take unpaid leave, paid study leave & special leave for territorial army.
- Recognition and engagement schemes including our Our Stars.
- Tax free 45p per business mile for cars (up to 10,000 miles per year).
5. HOW TO APPLY
If you have an enthusiastic approach to your work and feel you could make a significant contribution to our organisation, we would like to hear from you.
Please visit East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire) job vacancies website. Unfortunately we cannot accept applications from this platform for compliance purposes.
The closing date for applications is 9am on 20 January 2025.
6. COMPANY STATEMENT
East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire) is an equal opportunities employer and Disability Confident Leader. All suitably qualified people are encouraged to apply for vacancies regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. Applicants require current eligibility to live and work in the UK, they must also disclose any unspent convictions or cautions and company director disqualifications in their covering letter. Please inform recruitment@emc-dnl.co.uk of any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process. The business is dedicated to retaining talent and therefore it may decide to prioritise and support internal applicants.
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