Asset & Wealth Management - Head of Institutional Marketing - Vice President - London | London, UK

This vice president will play a key role, devising and executing marketing strategies to support the growth of our institutional business in the UK, which spans pension funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and insurers. The vice president will partner with client-facing business leaders, product strategy, investment teams and broader AM Marketing teams to identify and harness the top commercial priorities and translate them into full-funnel plans, fueling our business growth objectives with this critical segment.

Position Responsibilities

• Channel marketing vision and implementation: Research, plan, develop and implement an integrated marketing strategy for AM's institutional and insurance client segment to fuel overall business growth objectives.
• Brand narrative: Ensure the Asset Management value proposition, and associated institutional derivation and messaging pillars are infused through all institutional and insurance marketing activities globally.
• Client research: Partner with AM brand marketing, institutional and insurance business leaders to track, manage and analyze client research to determine how AM is perceived by our institutional and insurance clients and identify which perceptions need to be addressed to enable the business to move forward.
• Campaigns and execution: Develop and execute well thought-out, impactful and quantifiable lead generation and client retention campaigns leveraging a range of digital, media and in-person channels.
• Content: Partner with content and product marketing teams, to deliver a content calendar which fully supports the institutional and insurance marketing strategy, including the generation of editorial ideas, and content creation as well as continual improvement across marketing and sales collaterals, social media and am.gs.com.
• Measurement and reporting: End-to-end reporting and measurement of day-to-day and campaign-related marketing impact, delivering clear MROI and taking active steps to adjust marketing approach as necessary to optimize impact.
• Risk management: Maintaining strict adherence to regulatory and procedural guidelines for all marketing communications including proactive management of operational risk.
• Team effectiveness: Drive operational efficiency of the institutional and insurance marketing team, ensuring they are highly motivated, fully engaged and able to operate at scale.
• Partnership and collaboration: Develop and maintain strong relationships with other AM marketing leaders, EO marketing partners, Corporate Communications, sales and investment heads, and key senior stakeholders across the global organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a similar role within a similar leading financial institution with an outstanding track record with measurable impacts and achievements.
• In-depth knowledge of the asset management industry: clients, products, regulations, competitors.
• Well-developed strategic thinking with commercial awareness and business acumen.
• Demonstrable track record of working effectively across matrixed, complex organizations with excellent communication, influencing and presentation skills as well as the ability to engage with partners at all levels.
• Ability to present investment views in a thoughtful and well-reasoned manner, synthesize information from multiple sources and develop a clear, compelling story.
• Demonstrated integrated marketing skills across strategy and execution; ability to leverage subject matter experts throughout broader divisional marketing team in pursuit of effective outcomes.
• Solid experience in digital marketing, with working knowledge of martech within B2B environments, lead generation, and analytics in order to partner with subject matter experts.
• Ability to work at varying speeds and under timeframe pressure, while maintaining extremely high standards.
• Bachelor's Degree (BA/BS); MBA and/or CFA preferred.