The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has a great opportunity for a Marketing Manager role to join our vibrant Sales and Marketing team on a one-year contract (maternity cover).

In this role you will be responsible for developing customer and data led strategic marketing plans based around the customer and underlying customer segments, all localised to markets as appropriate for this portfolio.

Your focus will be across the Education market, Membership, and their customer segments, as well as paid channels.  You should be familiar with marketing within these segments and channels.

You will build relationships with customers and staff based in territory, and use customer data to inform and develop your strategic marketing plans, creating inspirational campaigns that resonate  with customers, delivering the right impact and ROI.

Your natural vibrancy & curiosity will inspire the team of Marketing Executives you will lead to develop and deliver impactful campaigns for the RSC which consistently inspire our main audience groups to take action.

We are looking for: 

• Degree in marketing or equivalent relevant experience.
• Digital marketing experience specifically in paid channels.
• Demonstrable strategic marketing campaigns that were data-led and achieved targets.
• Knowledge and deep understanding of the academic space.
• Relevant professional qualification together with evidence of commitment to continuous professional development (CPD).
• Demonstrable experience of successfully managing and developing teams and promoting a culture of high performance.
• Extensive experience in resource and budget planning, including managing and optimising large budgets.
• Ability to translate customer data and insights to create customer focused strategic marketing plans driving business focused results.
• Experience of working within an international marketing team to deliver coordinated global activity, localized to the needs of the market.

• Experience in engaging with customers internationally to develop relationships and inform marketing strategies to meet the needs of the customer.
• Demonstrable experience of successful delivery of marketing campaigns for a publishing and/or membership organisation.

You can download the full job description here. If you are interested in this role, please apply before the closing date.  

When applying, please provide an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement (no more than 500 words) indicating how your skills, knowledge and competencies match the requirements outlined in the job description.

About the RSC

The Royal Society of Chemistry is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to advance chemical sciences. As a not-for-profit publisher, we reinvest surplus funds back into the global scientific community, supporting our purpose to help the chemical science community make the world a better place.

The RSC strives to continuously innovate its product and services to adapt to market and customer needs, maintain relevancy and diversify revenues from print journals. This requires a market-led and ‘outside-in’ thinking approach to product and service innovation.

At the RSC we embrace flexibility and offer hybrid working, which means our teams come together when they need to collaborate.

Although this role is contractually based at our Cambridge office, however we are currently embracing hybrid working, and therefore you will have the opportunity to also work mostly from a UK location other than this, as agreed with your line manager. Applicants should be aware that there is an expectation that employees will attend our Cambridge offices around once a week. Please be aware that national & international travel may be required.

Benefits

At the Royal Society of Chemistry, we promote a healthy work/life balance and flexible working options across the organisation. We offer a comprehensive benefits package to all employees including:

• 26 days paid holiday per annum
• Up to 5 days holiday to buy scheme
• Life assurance (up to 3 annual salaries)
• 35-hour working week with flexible options
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Paid volunteering days
• Pension plan with up to 12% employer contributions (depending upon your contribution)
• Life assurance at four times basic annual salary

Visit our Work For Us website to learn more about us, our benefits, equal opportunities statement and inclusive culture pledge.

At the RSC, we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply. We particularly encourage applications from disabled and ethnic minority candidates.

As a part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we endeavour, where possible, to offer an interview to candidates meeting the essential criteria of the role, who has a substantial physical/mental impairment which impacts their ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.

We are committed to making our recruitment processes accessible to all and as part of this, we are flexible in the ways we give and receive information. If you would like to apply using a different format, please contact the Recruitment Team at jobs@rsc.org or on +44 (0) 1223 432229 and we will do our best to put any reasonable adjustments in place.

If you have any questions, please contact us at jobs@rsc.org

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