Marketing Manager

Overview

Our client is a standard bearer in financial and legal services, trusted by many of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, private equity firms and international corporations. They are looking for a London-based Marketing Manager to add to their team.

Who We Seek Our merit-based culture suits professionals in pursuit of boundless careers and lives. Beyond their acumen, team members are collaborative and conscientious, bringing a healthy sense of drive and purpose to each interaction and to all aspects of their work.

We have an exciting opportunity for a London Marketing Manager with regional responsibilities. The role reports to the Regional Head of Marketing and manages the London-based Marketing team. The successful candidate will work with the partners and other senior stakeholders across these offices to identify key priorities and then lead the London-based marketing team in delivering a programme of marketing initiatives utilising a broad range of tactics.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Day-to-day management of a team of marketing and events professionals
• Understanding the objectives of each office and its practice groups, and proactively developing and delivering initiatives and activities designed to meet them
• Ensuring marketing activities and initiatives are joined up and coordinated with corresponding business development plans
• Evaluating the return on investment for key marketing campaigns, and adapting future activities accordingly
• Identify and pursue new channels (both internal and external) of communications to engage key audiences in an effort to support the firm s overall goals
• Research and draft internal and external announcements
• Build and maintain relationships with editorial and commercial contacts in key legal and trade publications
• Identifying, evaluating and overseeing each office s corporate associations and sponsor ships activity, ensuring they are in line with strategic objectives
• Working closely with our Digital & Creative Services team to deliver engaging content
• The production and maintenance of necessary marketing collateral and other printed and digital materials
• Feeding in opportunities arising from marketing activities and campaigns into our BD/CRM plans
• Ensuring our events are not only "best-in-class" but also in support of our strategic objectives
• Working closely with peers in other jurisdictions to ensure appropriate coordination and collaboration as well as best practice and continuous development in our marketing activities
• Management of each office s marketing budget
• Working with others within the team on key projects

What You Bring In addition to indisputably high ethical standards and autonomy, the ideal candidate possesses the following:

• A professional qualification in a Business or Marketing related field is preferred
• 8+ years of experience (preferably in professional, B2B or financial services)
• Engage credibly with all members of the organisation with high level of enthusiasm and ability to use own initiative
• Ability to provide both strategic and operational support when needed
• High level of attention to detail and the ability to handle a consistent and varied workload is essential
• Ability to work well under pressure and juggle a number of on-going projects with deadlines and budgets while also maintaining high quality delivery
• Ability to make decisions in a timely manner
• Ability to apply logic and creativity to problem solving, ideally from experience gained in a professional services environment
• Strong relationship skills and the capability to understand and quickly respond to the needs of senior stakeholders
• Strong teamwork skills to work alongside and build relationships with the Marketing team both locally and globally
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills
• Strong project management experience with extensive and complex review processes

If interested, please do drop me a message or an email and I will get back to you asap.