We’re looking for a Brand Experience Manager to join our Brand Marketing and Experience team. If you’re looking for a new challenge with an organisation committed to putting customers first, aiming high and working together, you’ll thrive here.
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract - 15months
Location: This is an Edinburgh based, hybrid role with a minimum of two days per week in the office. Some travel in the UK is required.
Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here.
Closing Date: 25/03/2026
Salary and benefits: up to £48,000 dependent on experience plus an indicative bonus range of 16-32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.
Who are we?
We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.
Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.
The role
We’re looking for a dynamic Brand Experience Manager to help shape and deliver impactful, memorable experiences across our physical and web based touchpoints including owned customer or client events, brand sponsored events and customer pitches. You’ll play a key role in bringing our brand to life - whether through conferences, webinars, Innovation Lab experiences or high‑profile corporate events.
Supporting the Senior Brand Experience Lead, you’ll champion best‑in‑class event delivery of all event types including webinars and 1-2 relationship building events, streamline processes, and use insight to continually elevate what we do. You’ll collaborate with teams across the business and our agency partners to ensure every event reflects our brand at its best.
You’ll bring strong brand experience in end‑to‑end event management, stakeholder influence, experiential marketing and drive innovation. If you love creating engaging experiences and want to help shape how customers and partners connect with our brand, we’d love to hear from you
What are we looking for?
1. Proven experience delivering end to end event programmes across virtual, in-person and hybrid formats, including management of complex venues and high-profile corporate events.
2. Strong background in experiential marketing, with a track record of using brand platforms to create innovative, insight driven experiences that showcase products and propositions.
3. Demonstrated ability to influence, communicate and build relationships at senior levels, including C-suite stakeholders, within large matrix organisations.
4. Expert knowledge of event management best practice, including event policies, KPI setting, evaluation models and continuous improvement reporting frameworks.
5. Experience managing or working with event technologies and platforms, and using data to assess performance, identify efficiencies and inform decision making.
6. Proven ability to establish, embed and optimise processes, ensuring consistency, stakeholder alignment and effective collaboration with agencies and internal teams
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
We’re reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out.