Senior Platform Marketing Manager - Quilter in Southampton

About the Business

We're proud to announce we've won Platform of the year at the Schroders UK Platform Awards 2024 and 2025. Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £141.2 billion in customer investments (as of December 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial advice network and national, Quilter's investment platform and multi-asset solutions and Quilter Invest, the digital savings and investment app. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning - offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it's the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

• Level: 4
• Department: Marketing
• Location: London, United Kingdom or Southampton, United Kingdom (Hybrid-working)
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Regulated/Non-Regulated: Non-Regulated

As a Senior Platform Marketing Manager, you will have end-to-end responsibility for shaping and promoting Quilter's platform proposition. You will define how the platform is positioned to financial advisers and customers, lead high impact campaigns, and ensure activity is commercially focused, insight led and aligned to Quilter's growth ambitions. You will operate as the senior marketing lead for the platform, reporting to the Head of Platform and Investment Marketing, and will work closely with senior stakeholders across Product, Distribution and Communications.

Platform marketing ownership

• Own Quilter's platform marketing proposition, ensuring it is clearly differentiated, commercially compelling and aligned to business priorities.
• Lead the ongoing evolution and positioning of the proposition, informed by market insight, adviser feedback and competitor analysis.
• Set the marketing response to major tax and regulatory developments impacting platforms, including IHT and estate planning changes, translating complex technical issues into clear, persuasive adviser and paraplanner messaging.
• Act as a senior marketing lead for the platform, providing clear direction on how the proposition is articulated across audiences and channels.
• Ensure messaging is accurate, credible and consistent working closely with product, technical, sales and compliance colleagues.

Campaign development and execution

• Lead the design and delivery of major, multi-channel marketing campaigns.
• Set clear campaign objectives and success measures, ensuring activity drives tangible commercial outcomes.
• Work with subject matter experts and Financial Promotions team to ensure campaigns are accurate, robust and meet regulatory requirements.
• Use data and insight to evaluate effectiveness, challenging performance and refining approach to inform future activity.
• Champion best practice across platform campaigns and provide direction and guidance to Marketing Executives supporting delivery.

Digital presence and social media

• Lead the creation of engaging website and social media content.
• Partner with Digital and Communications teams to influence channel strategy, content prioritisation and optimisation.
• Ensure digital activity is insight-led, proposition-focused and aligned with campaign and commercial objectives.

Stakeholder collaboration

• Operate as a senior marketing partner to Distribution, Product, Proposition and Communications teams, influencing decisions and aligning activity to shared goals.
• Lead cross-functional conversations on platform marketing priorities, managing competing demands and driving clarity.
• Provide mentorship and day-to-day leadership to Platform Marketing Managers and Marketing Executives, supporting capability development and consistent delivery standards.

Marketing estate management

• Hold senior accountability for the platform marketing estate, ensuring quality, consistency, accuracy and regulatory compliance across all assets.
• Oversee the development and ongoing optimisation of core platform materials.
• Proactively identify gaps, duplication or inefficiencies within the estate and drive continuous improvement.

Commercial focus and prioritisation

• Work in close partnership with the Head of Platform and Investment Marketing to ensure platform marketing activity supports the agreed business plan.
• Apply a strong commercial lens to prioritisation, focusing resources and budget on activity that delivers the greatest impact.
• Own budget management within remit, ensuring spend is controlled, justified and delivers value.
• Balance strategic ambition with dependable execution, managing risk, timelines and delivery.

About You

Skills and experience

• Proven experience in financial services marketing, ideally within platforms or investments.
• Experience operating in FCA-regulated marketing environments and delivering compliant financial promotions.
• Proven expertise in planning and executing effective campaigns.
• A solid understanding of how advisers and paraplanners engage with platform propositions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities.

Personal Attributes

• Proactive: Take initiative, anticipate market trends, and propose new ideas.
• Ambitious: Set high standards for yourself and your team, aiming for continuous improvement.
• Tech-Savvy: Stay updated on digital marketing tools and emerging technologies.
• Inquisitive: Ask questions, seek insights, and explore new approaches.
• Thorough: Pay attention to detail, ensuring accuracy in all marketing materials.
• Collaborative: Foster teamwork, actively listen, and build strong relationships.
• Confident: Present ideas convincingly and navigate complex discussions.
• Marketing Mindset: Stay on top of new marketing practices and how these can be employed to help drive successful marketing activity and Quilter's growth.
• Behavioural Science Mindset: Use behavioural science to influence behaviour and improve customer understanding.

Inclusion & Diversity

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

Values

• Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.
• Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we're one step ahead of our clients' needs.
• Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes.
• Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone.

Core Benefits

• Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
• Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
• Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
• Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
• Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
• Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
• Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only.