Location: London, Potters Bar, Bristol or Isle of Man (Hybrid working options available)
This is a key role in leading the transformation of the marketing function, influencing the marketing plans to align with strategic priorities , regulatory change and delivering key projects. Reporting to the Head of Marketing Operations, the role holder will lead a small team, working closely with key stakeholders in a matrix structure, and will be responsible for the planning, delivery, measurement and management of workloads and capacity.
They will work closely with key member of the Marketing team, including Operations, Communications, Data and Digital, and forge strong working relationships with the change function as well as business unit and functional teams such as Propositions, Distribution, Compliance, Risk and Legal.

Duties/Responsibilities
* To lead the team responsible for delivering strategic and tactical programmes and projects to improved CLUK marketing and communications to reduce risk, deliver faster solutions and/or improve effectiveness/ROI
* To own the marketing project delivery plan, setting out clear objectives and strategies to deliver through agile or waterfall approaches, defining milestones, highlighting dependencies, deliverables and all project tasks, to ensure all KPI are delivered to time, quality and cost measures
* To supervise the team through the use of strong people management skills, so the staff have the motivation and training to deliver to the required levels of performance, and tomanage team plans and resources using an agile resource pool when required to achieve objectives
* To be the first point of contact to represent Marketing during the discovery and inception stage of project planning, ensuring requirements are fully understood and evaluated through clear assessment framework, with clear recommendations to the SLT or business, and adapting the marketing plans accordingly
* To work closely with the strategic change and regulatory teams to understand future change and strategic programmes, ensuring alignment and prioritisation with the marketing planning cycle
* To manage the project budgets using the agreed budget management process and tools, including supporting the annual budget planning cycle, and the monthly budgeting process for invoices, accruals and transactions
* Work closely with stakeholders in other departments as required, such as distribution, proposition, risk, legal and compliance, and external stakeholders and 3rd parties when required

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
* A background in financial services and knowledge of intermediated distribution
* Practical experience in a marketing project management role, demonstrating personal delivery and delivery through teams across all strands of marketing
* Exceptional project management skills, including planning, resourcing, budgeting managing risks and issues, reporting and evaluating effectiveness, and knowledge of agile and/or waterfall methodology
* Ability to manage and prioritise large, fast-paced, varied workloads in a large complex environment
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Excellent stakeholder skills, and adept at winning support from a wide range of people and collaborating closely when needed to achieve common goals
* Highly organised with excellent time management skills
* A positive mindset with strong self-motivation and resilience, a flexible and proactive approach to tackling problems, and comfort at managing several tasks to often challenging deadlines
* Experience of managing projects or working in a regulated environment
* Experience of producing reports, from briefing to drafting or commissioning content, and through to final publishing.
* Experience of estimating, forecasting, allocating and monitoring resources and budgets.
* Ability to demonstrate exceptional judgement, with a strong commercial understanding