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Warwick Business School (WBS) is looking for an experienced digital marketer with significant knowledge of trends, platforms, tools and content strategy to lead our Digital Marketing team.
You will bring your passion and experience to help us extend and deepen reach and engagement with target audiences globally – supporting student recruitment, and brand and reputation building; ensuring this is audience-focused and sector-leading.
While your specific area of responsibility will be on all things digital – including social media, in-house film production, and web content – you’ll be part of the wider management team with Communications & Marketing. You and your team will also work collaboratively with colleagues across our Programme Marketing, Brand, Design and Communications, and Press and PR teams.
This role is essential in ensuring we achieve our ambitious targets, both short term and towards the 2030 strategy, and must be underpinned by extensive audience insight, technical knowledge, engaging content creation, and monitoring and evaluation.
You’ll be responsible for a significant budget and for the setting and management of specific campaign budgets.
About You
To be considered for this role, you’ll need to be able to demonstrate significant experience of:
- Devising and delivering digital communications strategies which help build reputation and positive sentiment.
- Managing and motivating a high performing team within a large, complex organisation and driving a digital-first approach.
- Planning and delivering effective multi-audience campaigns, including the creation of objectives, audience insight mapping and segmentation, channel and media selection, and the creation of clear metrics and means to evaluate activity.
- Content creation, which delivers increased engagement and/or audience growth on owned channels and external platforms.
- Experience in crisis communications and proactively managing responses via social media.
You’ll also be able to think creatively and to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Although assigned to a particular area, it is essential to work in an integrated way in order to spot and maximise opportunities to grow the WBS brand and achieve engagement and conversions.
How to Apply
To apply, please click ‘Apply’ below and submit an application form by the closing date. Please plan for any potential delays as you will not be able to submit an application past this deadline (even if you opened the form at, say, 11.30 pm).
Please attach a CV and cover letter.
- Your CV should include your most recent employment experience, any other relevant experience, and education history.
- Your cover letter must detail how you meet each of the essential criteria found in the Job Description document below (desirable criteria too, where possible).
Please see here for guidance on writing a cover letter. We highly recommend using individual criteria as headers and giving examples below, though you are free to format the letter as you wish.
To streamline our hiring processes, we can only accept applications via our official website, warwick-careers.tal.net.
Interview Date: TBC
Start Date: TBC
What we Offer
We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.
We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working.
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Our Commitment to Inclusion
Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation.
The University of Warwick complies with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against anyone who makes a Disclosure relating to a conviction or other information revealed. More information is available on the University’s Vacancy pages and applicants may request a copy of the DBS Code of Practice.
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