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Marketing Manager, Watford, Hertfordshire
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Client:
Cumbria Chamber of Commerce
Location:
Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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EU work permit required:
Yes
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Job Views:
3
Posted:
04.06.2025
Expiry Date:
19.07.2025
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Job Description:
We're looking for a Marketing Manager with the right mix of creativity, drive, and strategic thinking to join our team in Carlisle!
This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a rewarding role within a small, friendly team—playing a key part in shaping how we connect with our audience and support the growth of Cumbrian businesses.
The role focuses on developing and delivering effective marketing and communications strategies and activities for the Chamber, Cumbria Business Growth Hub, Made in Cumbria, and other Chamber initiatives and brands across the whole business (both B2B and B2C). You’ll need to engage actively with, provide services to, and ensure the buy-in and active engagement of the SMT members and wider teams responsible for those activities.
We're looking for someone keen to play a key role in driving the Chamber and all its activities forward, building on success to date and taking advantage of developing technologies and opportunities.
Principal Accountabilities:
1. Overall responsibility for marketing & communications strategy and planning, the look and feel of campaigns, and brand management
2. Developing and implementing effective marketing strategies, plans, and campaigns, including associated budgets, for various projects and activity streams, and the Chamber overall, further raising and enhancing their profile and encouraging engagement in activities, networking, and business improvement, working with relevant colleagues
3. Developing and producing relevant on- and offline promotional and delivery resources such as leaflets, flyers, case studies, stands, magazine, e-shots, etc., working with relevant colleagues
4. Developing, producing, circulating, and driving the take-up of a range of regular on- and offline communications plus relevant web content and multimedia assets, including podcasts, working with relevant colleagues
5. Management of our websites, ensuring they continue to develop and provide an effective and rewarding user experience, as well as effective search engine optimization
6. Acting as brand champion for all brands used, ensuring consistency in tone of voice & application of branding guidelines across all communications
7. Branding control and approval of promotion materials internally and across partners, working to funder/sponsor/partner requirements and with funders/sponsors/partners as required
8. Providing support to colleagues and subcontractors with contact development responsibilities and making recommendations for ongoing improvements to relevant systems and processes
9. Maintenance of effective records & reporting in relation to marketing and engagement, including tracking, analyzing, and reporting on activity and performance, and using this as part of driving improvement and ongoing development
10. Organizing or supporting a range of events, from small to large scale, regular and ad hoc, across a range of Chamber brands and initiatives
11. Designing, undertaking, analyzing, and reporting on relevant research
12. Working with the SMT and relevant subcontractors/Directors to review developing technologies and opportunities and keep activities at the forefront of developments in digital marketing and delivery
13. Responsibility for the membership recording and communications processes
14. Working with the membership team to identify, develop/contract, and promote member services, both existing and new
15. Reporting to the Board on activities covered by the role
16. Any other activities as required to support the company’s activities
To find out more about the job and request a job description and application form, please email [emailprotected]
Where Business Belongs, Cumbria Chamber of Commerce, sits at the heart of the Cumbrian business community with influence on a national stage. We’re committed to serving the interests of businesses of all sizes throughout the county through various services, networks, and events:
* Through the Chamber, we work with both members and non-members, offering events & networking, member services, and more, plus representing the interests of the business community.
* Cumbria Business Growth Hub provides mentoring, start-up support, growth programmes, 1-2-1 advice, access to finance, grant schemes, tours & events, and more.
* Our Made in Cumbria brand promotes Cumbrian products, especially artisan crafts, food & drink to consumers.
* We lead Cumbria’s Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP), working with partners to ensure businesses access skills needed now and in the future, supporting training opportunities and highlighting career pathways.
* As the accountable body for the Land & Nature Skills Service for Cumbria, we support skills development and career opportunities across the sector.
So, there are lots of great things going on, and you’d be playing a key role in supporting them!
This is a full-time role, based in Carlisle, with options for hybrid and flexible working. You’ll work as part of a vibrant team committed to making a difference to Cumbria, its businesses, and its people. We offer a competitive salary, pension, Westfield Health Benefits and Rewards, and 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
The closing date for this role is Monday 16th June at 9am.
If you have questions or want to chat about the opportunity before applying, contact Suzanne Caldwell, Managing Director, [emailprotected].
To apply, email Suzanne for an application form, then send it back to her.
Please note:
* We are committed to supporting people with disabilities and long-term health conditions as a Disability Confident Leader
* We support service leavers, veterans, reservists, and armed forces families as an Armed Forces Covenant supporter
* We support homeless people and those at risk of homelessness as a signatory to the Homelessness Covenant
This includes offering a guaranteed interview to anyone in these groups who meets the minimum criteria for the job.
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