Marketing Manager

Job title: Marketing Manager

Contract: Permanent – Full time, 35 hours

Salary: £26,596 - £30,925 plus £3,954 London Weighting Allowance per annum

Location: London, SW1P 2AF - We're open to a variety of ways of working, including compressed hours and hybrid working.

Closing date: Monday 13 February 2023

Blue Cross is one of the UK’s leading animal welfare organisations for animals. We are a charity that supports sick, injured, and homeless pets and care for more than 40,000 animals every year through our rehoming, veterinary and education programmes. The help we offer includes veterinary treatment, finding loving new homes for pets, behavioural advice, support with pet bereavement and education for future generations.

About the role

As our new Marketing Manager, your main focus will be to communicate externally the importance of why Blue Cross exists and the amazing work we do. Partnering with our Service (which includes rehoming, veterinary, behaviour and pet bereavement support) and Public Affairs teams to understand objectives and build external communications plans that deliver against these objectives

You'll develop and deliver externally facing paid marketing plans, aligned to overall objectives and working towards one integrated plan across the Blue Cross. You'll work closely with external agencies (media and creative) developing and executing plans, liaising with key stakeholders across the organisation to engage, consult and keeping them updated on plans. Post execution, you’ll evaluate campaign performance and create reports providing valuable insights for decision making.

About you:

You’ll be a confident, natural communicator with great project management skills and attention to detail. You will have a passion for marketing that you want to share, whilst also supporting and engaging those who have limited marketing experience and understanding.

You’ll have a ‘can-do’ attitude, be able to innovative and deal with complexity. You’ll be able to communicate effectively with people at all levels, both internally and externally. Able to prioritise, you will remain calm under pressure with the ability to meet deadlines. You will have a proven ability to work independently on your own initiative and as a member of a team.

You'll have:

• Proven experience in delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns, including digital channels

• Creative, with experience in identifying target audiences and devising and executing campaigns that engage, inform, and convert

• Demonstrable understanding of brand and its importance

• Experience of working in cross functional teams and with marketing agencies

• Proven ability to influence and explain marketing concepts, especially to those with a limited understanding of marketing

• Understanding of metrics and ways to measure the impact of activity undertaken

• Strong organisational and analytical skills

• Strong presentation skills

• Excellent project management skills

Although not essential, we'd like you to have:

• A marketing qualification

• Experience of working with not-for-profit organisations

• Experience of charity campaigning planning and communication

Why Blue Cross?

Our people are the most important part of delivering our purpose. If it weren’t for their amazing efforts and commitment, we would not be able to make a difference that we do today. We offer a generous benefits package that includes:

• 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays)

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Holiday exchange & enhanced parental leave

• Annual volunteer days

• Long service awards, starting from 5 years

• Vast range of discounts across high street stores, insurance services & more

To read more about the benefits Blue Cross has to offer, please visit the 'why work for us' page on our website.

How to apply

Click the apply button below and complete the online application process before the closing date on Thursday 9 February 2022.

First interviews will be held w/c Monday 20 February 2023 and be virtual via Teams.

Second interviews will be held w/c Monday 27 February 2023 and will be onsite.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.

At Blue Cross we are passionate about our commitment to diversity, inclusion and removing barriers, should you like to discuss any reasonable adjustments or changes to our recruitment process to support you to be your best then please get in touch. You can get in touch with us either via email at [email removed - click apply for more details], via telephone on 01993 825515 or if you would prefer a video call then we can arrange this using Microsoft Teams.

Blue Cross holds inclusion as a core organisational value. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified, experienced, and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity. We actively embrace our differences and know that it is our differences that make us unique. You are very welcome at Blue Cross, without the need to hide any part of who you are.