Marketing Lead; RC

Final date to receive applications: 2 November 2026

Department: Strategy, Marketing, Communications & Portfolio

Employment Type: Contract / Temp

Location: London and Milton Keynes

Reporting To: Senior Marketing Manager – Digital, Audiences & Data

Compensation: £32,805 - £47,442 / year

Location London or Milton Keynes

Working hours Full time

Contract type/duration:
Fixed Term Contract 12 months

Band: 2.1

Salary: £32,805- £47,442 (Dependent on office location and proven ability)

Reporting to: Senior Marketing Manager – Digital, Audiences & Data

Closing date: 2nd of November 2026

We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on Digital Marketing Lead to join our fast-paced Marketing & Communications team for a maternity cover contract. This is a highly practical digital marketing role with responsibility for the day-to-day delivery and optimisation of CPC's email marketing, Hub Spot automation, website, organic and paid social media campaigns and digital performance reporting. This is not a ‘ticking over’ maternity cover as we are looking for someone who can drive improvements, modernise our content, optimise our processes and deliver an excellent experience for our prospects and customers.

Working closely with the Senior Marketing Manager – Digital, Audiences and Data, you will turn organisational and campaign priorities into effective digital activity, ensuring campaigns are delivered accurately, on time and to the right audiences.

You will grow and engage audience across the target segments and markets by promoting our funding opportunities, events, videos, reports, projects and other content. You will build and schedule emails, create Hub Spot workflows and campaign reports, create webpages, be responsible for social content, set up and optimise paid Linked In campaigns, and analyse performance using Hub Spot and GA4.

As part of the marketing team, you will be responsible for delivering strategies and plans that build brand awareness, increase engagement, and ultimately lead to commercial opportunities.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver and optimise Connected Places Catapult’s digital marketing activity across email, website, organic social media and paid campaigns.
• Support the delivery of email campaigns in Hub Spot, including audience setup and segmentation, email building, testing, scheduling, personalisation and quality assurance.
• Manage the organisation-wide email marketing schedule, coordinating campaigns and audience communications.
• Create, edit and publish website content, landing pages, forms, events, opportunities and campaign pages, applying SEO and accessibility best practice.
• Manage organic social media channels, including content planning, scheduling, publishing and performance optimisation.
• Set up, manage and optimise paid Linked In campaigns, including audiences, budgets, creative testing and conversion tracking.
• Monitor and report on audience growth, engagement, conversions, campaign performance and other key marketing KPIs.

Essential experience and skills

• Strong hands-on experience delivering multi-channel digital marketing campaigns.
• Confident and experienced Hub Spot Marketing Hub user
• Strong understanding of audience segmentation, lists and CRM-based targeting
• Experience setting up and managing Hub Spot campaigns and building campaign performance reports and dashboards
• Confidence managing and growing social channels, particularly Linked In
• Excellent attention to detail, particularly when managing email campaigns and digital publishing
• Creative thinker – with the ability to craft engaging, catchy and intelligent copy that appeals to the right audience at the right time
• Excellent planning,…