About this role.
We’re looking for a digital marketing manager to take a hands-on role in the delivery of key client campaigns.
Title: Digital Marketing Manager Hours: Full-time, Flexitime Location: Hybrid home/office working policy (we are based in the Northern Quarter, Manchester) Salary: £35,000 per annum, upto 7% annual salary increase each December after your first full year. Ad-hoc bonuses. Holidays: 31 per year, plus one extra per year
You’ll be supporting our senior marketing managers, helping them with everything from reporting and content production to creative ideas and strategy.
Working with multichannel experts across disciplines as diverse as content marketing, SEM, eCRM and digital advertising, you’ll naturally be experienced enough to understand the uses and strengths of each channel.
As someone who has had at least two years experience in a digital agency or in an in-house team you will have enjoyed being involved in both the production and management of marketing projects and campaigns, as well as organising budgets, schedules and planners, creating reports and monitoring performance, alongside developing your marketing knowledge.
By its nature, the role will be varied - your mission will be to use your skills to drive commercial success for our clients, through campaigns and experiences people will love.
Main Roles and Responsibilities
Communicating with clients and partners on work in progress and results
Coming up with campaign ideas people will love
Generating reports and creating insight from the data
Creating content for social channels, blogs, emails and landing pages
Nurturing social accounts and channels - and driving growth
Making visual social assets using platforms such as Canva
Monitoring - and helping to grow - client performance across channels
Key Skills
At least two years working in an environment where you’ve been exposed to multichannel digital campaigns across disciplines such as SEO/PPC, organic and paid social media, influencer marketing, video and inbound/content marketing
Experience of managing people and partnerships
Versatility and understanding of different marketing channels and their uses and benefits. You don’t need to be an expert in all of them, but a working understanding is important
Hands-on experience of planning, production and promotion of campaign work for clients
Demonstrable previous success, having worked on multiple projects and campaigns in a digital or creative marketing agency environment
Excellent ability to take briefs and turn them into ideas and moments that clients - and their customers - will love, drawing on your own strengths and those of your colleagues
Highly organised, with amazing written and verbal communication skills and a love of working with and being around people
Desirable Skills
Background in content marketing, PR or social media roles would be nice because that’s what we do, but it’s not a prerequisite
Additional design skills or experience using tools such as InDesign, Photoshop
Video editing, animation or graphics skills (for social video, not Oscars entries)
Ability to write copy and work across different media and channels
Certifications across relevant platforms such as Google Ads, Google Analytics
What makes us different?
We want to get the best out of our team; we have a sensible hybrid-working and flexitime policy that allows you to be in an office when you want but work remotely when it's more sensible. We’re big on training and self-improvement, we have an annual salary increase scheme (up to 7% each year). We have social events, but we don’t enforce socialising. We respect our teams’ work-life balance.
For our clients, the big difference is our approach to strategy. We run discovery and strategy creation workshops, we create strategy playbooks that align with our client's goals then we adjust and optimise based on real-world data. Our campaigns perform better because we dig deep into our client's businesses and their customers, so we understand the buying cycle and our client's customers pain points.
Apply now: If you love the sound of this opportunity, send your CV and a short note to jobs@theeword.co.uk