About the Role
As our new Marketing Executive, you will be responsible for delivering effective marketing campaigns that support the growth and revenue goals of a portfolio of academic journals. Working closely with the Marketing Manager, you will help bring campaigns to life that build journal visibility and encourage manuscript submissions, with a particular focus on Calls for Papers. You will also contribute to institutional marketing initiatives, developing an understanding of appropriate branding and messaging across different journal titles and audience segments.
You will be involved in a wide range of marketing activities, including content marketing, social media, digital advertising, copywriting, web page creation and maintenance, and event support. Collaboration will be central to the role, working closely with marketing colleagues and the Marketing Shared Services and Operations team to ensure campaigns are delivered accurately, on time, and to a high standard. Through regular interaction with stakeholders, you will build knowledge of academic publishing, open access models, researcher needs, and the wider scholarly environment.
Success in this role means delivering campaigns aligned to clear strategies and plans, using insight and performance data to continuously refine approach and impact. You will help track and report on campaign results, measuring effectiveness through performance metrics and contribution to manuscript submissions. Alongside this, you will proactively identify opportunities to improve marketing processes, enhance efficiency, and contribute to the ongoing development of the marketing team’s ways of working.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
1. Ability to execute marketing plans, demonstrate proficiency in digital marketing, and understand how to improve based on analytics.
2. Ability to demonstrate effective communication skills.
3. Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders in diverse locations and functions.
4. Marketing experience in a scholarly publishing environment is desirable.
5. Manage time effectively, using structured decision-making to prioritize activity in accordance with team goals and plans.
6. Ability to think strategically about marketing channels and messages is desirable.
Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.