Marketing Analyst in Northampton

Key Purpose of the Role: To arm the marketing team and wider Portman business with the data and recommendations needed to improve the effectiveness of campaigns through analysis, segmentation, research and profiling.

Systematic reporting of campaigns and business trends to spot opportunities for improvement and therefore increased revenue. Segmentation to identify opportunities for effective personalised messaging with the aim of increased conversion. Customer research and profiling with the aim of improving the relevancy of messaging and therefore conversion.

Responsible for:

• Proving the Head of Marketing, Marketing team and wider business with campaign analysis and market intelligence designed to improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
• Replacing ad-hoc analysis designed to answer specific one-time questions, with systematic monitoring, so that campaign performance can be more clearly tracked, trends and opportunities can be identified and exploited.

Campaign Analysis:

• Gather information on all aspects of marketing campaigns, ensuring measurability is built into the campaign itself, with the aim of determining an ROI per channel and per campaign. This will typically involve collating information from email, social, direct mail and advertising channels via our analytics platform and producing a summary report with recommendations.

Segmentation:

• Create customer segmentations, identifying groups of customers whose patterns or characteristics make viable sales opportunities.
• Work with the tech team to add tested and productive segmentation types to the CRM.
• Produce campaign contact lists for email and direct mail channels.
• Advise on targeting for digital advertising audiences.
• Investigate and make recommendations.

Research:

• Competitors – what are they doing
• Lenders – what are they offering
• Customers – what do they think and need? Create customer profiles representing the buyers of different products or from different market sectors to improve messaging and targeting.

Software in use: Zoho CRM and Zoho Analytics. Excel.

Requirements

• Must have: 5 years experience in a heavily data focused marketing or analytics role.
• Sound Excel skills and proven ability to work with analytical tools.
• Be able to understand and interpret data, spotting patterns, making recommendations, not just reporting.
• Familiarity with measuring a test and learn approach across channels.

The ideal candidate should be:

• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
• Happy to challenge and be challenged, to collaborate and produce work of the highest quality.
• Proactive in pushing the business forward.
• An open communicator with a curious mind.
• Able to build relationships across the business.
• A problem solver, able to investigate issues and find solutions without always having to escalate.

Benefits

• Competitive basic salary and annual bonus;
• Vibrant, high-spec office environment;
• Enhanced annual leave, increasing with length of service;
• Salary sacrifice pension;
• Quarterly all-staff events and dynamic culture.

Company Overview: Portman Finance Group was established in 2007 to provide UK SMEs with access to a range of finance options under one roof. We have now arranged over £1 billion in funding for over 15,000 companies. Portman secures finance for businesses of all sizes via our own lending and panel of over 40 partners. We offer flexible payment terms, reducing large initial outlays and protecting cash-flow, and are one of the largest privately owned Broker-Lenders in the UK. Portman works with any type of private sector business. We have a long and successful history financing a variety of assets, quickly and easily. If you’re looking to lease or purchase further equipment, release equity or simply borrow, Portman can provide your business with the finance it needs.

Please note that as part of the recruitment process a criminal records check/credit history check will be carried out by an authorised third party.