Marketing Specialist

Job description

Job Introduction

Do you know what it takes to deliver a winning campaign? If the answer’s yes, we’d love to hear from you. Our Marketing team is looking for someone with great organisational skills, who can write insightful creative briefs, produce and project plan, manage stakeholders and who can manage a budget, stay on brand and combine creative with strategic to deliver campaigns that will resonate with our customers time and time again.

Main Responsibilities

From day one, you’ll be getting to know our customers and learning about the business, so you’ll be equipped with the knowledge you need to deliver engaging campaigns. On the one hand, you’ll be making sure our customers receive marketing materials that are engaging and clear. On the other, you’ll be working with the customer insight team to measure how effective they are against KPIs and take the learnings in to the next campaign.

You’ll also be working closely with stakeholders across the business to make sure campaigns are delivered on time, on budget and on brand. Our designers, copywriters and external agencies will be relying on you to provide clear and insightful creative briefs they can really bring to life. You’ll be delivering campaigns across all our channels both above and below the line.

The role will work closely with our strategy & planning, digital, customer insight and operations teams.

Ideal Candidate

We’re looking for someone who’s customer-focused and loves being part of a team. You’ll need brilliant communication skills and that rare ability to balance customer needs with commercial requirements.
You don’t necessarily need a background in financial services, but experience in a regulated environment would really help. And don’t forget to bring your brand knowledge and all that wonderful stakeholder management expertise.

The key competencies for this role are:

Highly organised
Customer focused
Relationship management
Excellent communication skills
Ability to prioritise planned work with unexpected requests

About Skipton Building Society

At Skipton Building Society we are not just another Financial Services Institution we are a mutual organisation, which means we are owned by our members and believe in placing them at the heart of everything we do. The same goes for our people. We can only be successful as a business if we have great people and we believe in treating people as individuals. Our values are Trust, Ownership and One Team which reflect the attitudes and way of working everyone here displays on a daily basis, and which are key to the delivery of the outstanding level of personal service we offer our customers.

We’re committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where every colleague has an opportunity to fulfil their career potential. We respect and appreciate the value that our colleagues’ unique differences can bring and offer consideration for anyone seeking a more flexible work-life balance. If you have a need for flexibility then please let us know.

Why Work For Us

We’re committed to paying our people fairly for the role they undertake and provide a wide range of benefits to support our colleagues’ finances and wellbeing, including our Employee Assistance programme, the opportunity to buy extra holidays and shopping discount vouchers
You’ll be able to shape your career within your team and can expect a structured learning and development programme where you’ll be valued recognised and rewarded.

More information on our benefits can be found here

Skipton are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age