Marketing Automation Manager – Aberdeen
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.
About The Department
The Marketing function is responsible for marketing and advertising activities, including creative services, market research, business intelligence, product management, and branding and design. The Digital Marketing area is responsible for developing and supporting marketing efforts for the firm’s online media and platforms.
About the Role
The Marketing Automation Manager will work with the business to translate digital strategies into high-impact and timely email communications supporting client and prospects through acquisition and remarketing efforts. You will be a key technical and strategic lead for the global automation platform, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, advising on best practice adoption, driving strategy and building capabilities.
Reporting to the Marketing Audience Enablement Senior Manager, you will work as part of the Growth and Digital team, responsible for defining and implementing the Marketing Automation strategy across the region. Through richer personalised engagement, enhanced targeting, awareness and journey progression, you will help drive conversion and lead generation.
Key Responsibilities
* Design and deliver the regional Marketing Automation strategy by driving regional capability levels, and assume responsibility for the day-to-day management and execution across the Marketing Automation platform, supporting marketing teams and implementing local communication strategies.
* Drive forward marketing engagement levels with existing contacts and the capturing of net new qualified leads through the creation of automated workflows and email nurture campaigns, working in collaboration with regional marketing and distribution teams.
* Design and build HTML templates using coding practices to ensure responsive and best practice email execution.
* Explore new technology and platform developments to support customer experience and brand growth.
* Manage good data quality relating to overall data hygiene practices, bounce rate, integrity and accuracy across technology platforms.
* Management of data capture and acquisition strategies including form build, data flow and user journey.
* Extract data-driven insights about marketing programs & initiatives and provide ideas to optimise marketing propositions and boost return on investment.
About the Candidate
* Strong proficiency in email marketing and executing automated CRM campaigns in a regulated environment.
* Proven experience using Salesforce Marketing Cloud or other enterprise platforms, hands on experience with tracking/analysing campaign performance data in Salesforce.
* Experience demonstrating people skills, process, and technology to drive intelligent automation of prospects and customer interactions.
* Experience running education sessions with end users to simplify complex issues and optimise the platform for use.
* Extensive working knowledge of current email marketing best practices such as subject lines and layout, rules, strategies and tools.
* Highly competent use of HTML and CSS languages in email design.
* Strong knowledge in working with databases, data analysis, segmentation and targeting.
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Our Benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported. When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.
Our Business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs.
Inclusive Way of Working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach combining the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance.
If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.
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