Marketing Manager – Financials recruitment
The Company
Wood Mackenzie has a global reputation as a world-class provider of consulting and analysis to the energy and metals and mining industries.
With its headquarters in Edinburgh, Wood Mackenzie has offices in Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and the United States and currently employs over 600 people.
Main Responsibilities
Co-ownership of the marketing plan and budget, and shared commercial targets for the Financials segment and related services.
This will encompass:
- Implementing annual marketing plans, getting buy-in from (and presenting to) key Account Managers, product managers, coordinating activity across product groups as necessary, to build the commercial value of the Financials Segment.
- Develop key workflows and value propositions for Financials with requisite segmentation.
- Support product development.
- Involvement in Financials business planning, contributing a marketing and communications perspective on plans and resource requirements.
- Planning and execution, in cooperation with segment and regional marketing colleagues, appropriate levels of promotional activity to achieve revenue targets.
- Reporting of commercial progress.
- Executing programmes to agreed deadlines and budget.
Understanding of your Segment
- Develop an understanding of our energy and metals and mining research portfolio, in order to successfully prioritise, develop and implement projects.
- Consistently uphold a commercial view of the Financials segment and overall business objectives.
Campaign and lead management:
- Work with sales, research, segment and regional marketing, PR, web and telemarketing teams in the development and implementation of campaign plans, objectives, targets, and results metrics.
- Develop and maintain target lists with guidance from sales teams, and track commercial progress in cooperation with them.
- Manage campaigns effectively and report on results in terms of both successes and lessons learnt.
Event planning and management:
- Implement an appropriate event plan for the Financials segment.
- Coordinate internally Wood Mackenzie’s involvement at major external conferences and Wood Mackenzie forums, working with regional and segment marketing teams as necessary.
- Plan and project manage segment-led events, webcalls, podcasts as appropriate, and the achievement of commercial objectives for these.
- Ensure appropriate awareness is raised – internally and externally – about participation in such activities, working with PR and web team as appropriate.
Communications materials development:
- Develop appropriate sales tools (internal external) for the financials sales team and financials specific products.
- Produce and manage materials/collateral working with in-house Design Print team.
- Ensure adherence to brand guidelines in all communications
Teamwork:
- Build strong working relationships within marketing, research, sales and other project team members across the business.
- Keep segment and regional marketing colleagues informed of product developments.
- Contribute to marketing team by sharing ideas and feedback from business area.
- Provide first class customer service, ensuring that requirements are met to agreed timescales and standards, keeping internal and external customers informed, and managing expectations.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
The candidate will be a graduate in either a Marketing or Business related discipline and will have experience managing marketing programmes, ideally in a marketing management position. Industry experience in Finance is required and industry experience in energy and metals would be desirable.
Strong understanding of client centric marketing activities including communications planning and experience in direct marketing, online, events and lead development are essential. Strong project management abilities, budget management and organisation skills are key, as is the ability to manage several simultaneous projects to tight deadlines. An ability to take the initiative and deliver projects unsupervised is crucial.
The candidate will need to demonstrate a customer-focussed attitude and be confident in dealing with multiple departments and senior management within the business.
Competencies
Communication Team working
Planning Organisation
Creative Thinking
Organisation Skills
Attention to Detail
Project Management
Budget management