Sales & Marketing Manager

As Sales & Marketing Manager, you'll play a central role in shaping how Places for People presents itself to customers, partners, and the wider marketplace. You'll elevate the quality, consistency, and reach of our marketing and communications, helping us build vibrant new communities and strengthen our brand presence across both New Homes and Shared Ownership. You'll also work closely with a range of partners and stakeholders involved in major projects including housing partners and internal marketing colleagues, and external creative, digital, and print suppliers, ensuring our developments are promoted effectively and cohesively.

With a strong focus on creative marketing delivery, you'll ensure our schemes stand out – from the way we communicate online to the experience customers receive on-site and build and execute tailored strategies. You take ownership of the marketing journey and customer experience across multiple developments, ensuring everything from signage and show home presentation to campaign activity and collateral meets a consistently high standard.

Working closely with the Sales, Marketing & Investments Director, you will shape strategy for upcoming schemes, build tailored campaigns for diverse buying routes, and continually refine our processes to improve performance and customer satisfaction. The role requires strong commercial awareness, the ability to understand the local market landscape, and the confidence to recommend targeted actions based on insight and data.

Essential Criteria:

• Experience within a Marketing Manager role within the New Homes/Developments sector, with a proven ability to deliver effective multichannel marketing campaigns that enhance customer engagement and support scheme performance.
• Line management experience, including coaching, developing, and motivating teams to achieve high standards of customer experience and overall commercial outcomes.
• The ability to manage marketing budgets confidently, ensuring spend is targeted, monitored, and delivers strong value and measurable outcomes for each scheme.
• Ability to manage projects independently, taking ownership of deadlines, campaign delivery, onsite presentation, and cross-functional coordination to maintain consistent brand standards.
• You are commercially minded, with a clear understanding of the wider housing market, competitor activity, and current trends.
• You're confident analysing performance, responding to market shifts, and making informed recommendations that strengthen our brand, enhance engagement, and support overall scheme success.
• As a people leader, you're skilled in setting clear expectations, inspiring your team, and driving high performance through coaching, development, and consistent communication.

At Places for People, we hire People, not numbers! So, if you like the sound of one of our jobs, please apply – you could be just who we're looking for! Of course, experience and track record are important, but we're more interested in hiring someone that embodies our People Promises. That’s someone who does the right thing, is enthusiastic and motivated to grow, believes in community spirit, is respectful and enjoys their work. As the UK’s leading social enterprise, we don’t discriminate based on any protected attribute. We’re dedicated to creating inclusive and thriving communities for both our customers and employees.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, with a salary review yearly
• Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
• Excellent holiday package – 35 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell leave
• Cashback plan for healthcare costs – up to £500 saving per year
• Competitive Bonus
• Company Car/Car Allowance
• Training and development
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and accessible recruitment process for all.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We’re happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.

If you are a Places for People customer and you’re looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team.

We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect. We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability.