Marketing Executive in Leeds

Build the marketing engine that wins trust, strengthens client retention, and helps Raw Selection reach £10m.

Build the hiring engine that takes Raw Selection to £10m.

This is not a “keep the inbox tidy/social posting” Marketing or Talent Acquisition role. It’s a pipeline-building, standards-setting, volume-driving seat with two purposes:

1. Own the marketing activity that strengthens trust, improves client retention, and drives commercial growth.

2. Run marketing campaigns to attract the top 10% graduates (and a small number of experienced hires) that will materially move the business.

Raw Selection is an executive search firm partnering with Private Equity firms and their portfolio companies to secure C-Suite and senior leadership talent across Europe and North America.

We’re in our next growth phase. The first milestone is £10m revenue. To get there, we need a proactive, commercially-minded marketing professional who can deliver and upgrade our Trust client marketing process and build a predictable hiring machine, marketing to, qualifying, and closing high-calibre people who thrive in a high-performance culture.

What this role includes

• Owning the trust process of Know, Like, Trust
• Building and sending proposals to clients
• Writing best-in-class job adverts, search briefs and Talent Engagement Packs (Job adverts on steroids)
• Owning client retention and surprise/delight
• Build the hiring engine to £10m: predictable monthly hiring numbers, not “ad hoc” recruiting
• Own the full funnel: attraction → sourcing → screening → interviewing → offers → start dates → onboarding handover
• Graduate hiring machine: campus strategy, societies, events, partnerships, referral engine, assessment days
• Direct sourcing: LinkedIn/headhunting for top performers (and a small number of experienced hires)
• High standards screening: scorecards, structured interviews, calibration, no “maybe” hires
• Employer brand + ads: write adverts, run campaigns, improve conversion rates across each stage
• Process and documentation: interview training for managers, templates, candidate comms, consistent candidate experience
• Stakeholder management: works directly with leadership to forecast headcount and prioritise roles
• Onboarding quality control: ensure new hires hit early ramp metrics, feed lessons back into hiring

Why the best people want Raw Selection

#1 Raw Selection is fast-paced and fast-growing

We are building to £10M as the first milestone. That requires pace, ownership, and intensity.

#2 Raw Selection is obsessed with best-in-class

We are building the standard for how executive search should be run. If it’s average, it’s not us.

#3 Raw Selection is people-development obsessed

We invest in training, coaching, and leadership development because people are the business. The standard is the product.

#4 Raw Selection holds people accountable to their goals

We don’t talk about ambition, we operationalise it. Clear targets, clear feedback, clear outcomes.

Requirements

• Marketing degree
• Evidence of building or scaling funnel-based campaigns
• Big ambitions + long term mindset
• Comfortable in conducting phone interviews and managing interview processes
• High resilience
• Highest standards for work ethic
• Demonstration of investing in yourself

Location

Leeds city centre, office-based

Compensation

Basic Salary: £26,000 to £35,000

Bonus: 10 to 15% of salary

Expectations

Do not apply if any of these are true:

1. You want a “job”
2. You avoid phones and awkward conversations.
3. Feedback makes you defensive instead of better
4. You don’t like data