Job Description

We are the world\xe2\x80\x99s largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have global impact.

About the Role

We are looking for a Marketing Manager to join the UK Schools Marketing team. You will be responsible for devising and managing integrated marketing campaigns for key resources or areas of thought leadership. This involves planning cross-channel campaigns, arranging implementation of campaigns drawing on both internal and external resource, as well as implementing elements yourself, and evaluating and reporting back on campaign results. The campaigns aim to engage our audiences, generate leads, drive sales revenue, and increase market share. You will also be responsible for representing the resources you manage at internal meetings with colleagues in other teams.

Principal accountabilities/key result areas * Work closely with the Senior Marketing Managers to understand the priorities each term, and ensure your plans reflect this and feed into the wider departmental strategy.

• Devise, deliver, monitor and report back on integrated marketing campaigns for resources and thought leadership. Plan and forecast the budget required for your campaigns, making sure you spend within that budget as you deliver the campaign.
• Brief internal colleagues such as Marketing Campaign Coordinators, web, social and email specialists, and Design, as well as external resource such as designers, marketing agencies and marketing freelancers to help you deliver your plans. Ensure your briefs are clear, effective at producing what you need and that you monitor the work to completion.
• Work collaboratively with other teams including Publishing and Sales to produce the best results for your campaigns and resources.
• Manage the relationship with any third parties linked to your resources.
• Manage your own workload, prioritising as needed based on urgency and importance.
• Work proactively to solve problems and overcome any barriers yourself, escalating or seeking guidance when needed.
• Keep up to date on customer and market information considering how it impacts the resources and campaigns that you are working on and where any developments may lead to new opportunities
• Take on extra projects within the Marketing team, as required

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

Essential:

• Experience of planning and implementing integrated campaigns at Campaign Manager or Marketing Manager level, with familiarity of key marketing fundamentals e.g. use of data, KPIs, customer journey
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and team working skills that enable you to maintain good working relationships at all times
• Experience of stakeholder management, including managing expectations and influencing
• Ability to manage and prioritise a heavy workload, delegating effectively to help you deliver
• Experience of budget management
• Proactive and able to hit the ground running
• A willingness to continually learn and apply best practice

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the UK education market

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days\xe2\x80\x99 holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

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We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

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