Associate Marketing Manager (Fixed Term Contract)

We are looking for a motivated marketing professional to join our vibrant secondary marketing team within the Education Division on a fixed term basis as Associate Marketing Manager. The Associate Marketing Manager supports the planning and execution of integrated marketing campaigns for key brands or subjects that drive awareness, adoption and loyalty with OUP’s products and services. Working collaboratively with colleagues across Marketing, Sales, Editorial, Design and Shared Services teams, the role uses customer insight, market intelligence, and performance data to deliver messaging and plans that meet commercial objectives and strengthen OUP’s position in the market.

The role holder is responsible for managing end‑to‑end campaign delivery, ensuring high‑quality execution across channels, and continuously optimising activity to maximise impact, customer value, and return on investment.

Duties of the role will include:

• Support the development and execution of integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns
• Create campaign plans that define audiences, messaging, channels, timelines, and success measures
• Ensure campaigns are delivered on time, aligned to priorities, and to a high standard
• Deliver effective campaigns across email, social, paid media, and web channels
• Work with channel specialists to implement best practice and optimise performance
• Use testing, targeting, and data to continuously improve results
• Work closely with internal stakeholders across product, sales, digital, and design teams
• Support alignment of marketing activity with product launches and sales priorities
• Track and analyse campaign performance against agreed KPIs
• Provide insights and recommendations to improve future activity
• Manage campaign budgets accurately and maintain reporting trackers
• Use customer insights and market research to shape messaging and campaign plans
• Monitor competitor activity and emerging trends to identify opportunities

This is a 6 month fixed term contract, with the possibility of extension. We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You: You will be a collaborative and detail-oriented marketer with experience in delivering campaigns and a strong interest in digital marketing and performance. To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

• Experience of marketing processes and campaign delivery
• Ability to analyse campaign performance and apply learnings
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Excellent written communication and copywriting skills
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
• A proactive, flexible approach and willingness to learn and adapt
• Experience in education, publishing, or a related sector (desirable)

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.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

In the region of £31,000 depending on skills and experience.