Salt are partnered with a leading cultural organisation and are looking for a Marketing & Communications Manager (Events) to join on a contract basis.
Location: London
Contract: 2 Months
Working pattern: Full-time, Hybrid (35 hours per week)
About the Role
This is a standalone events marketing role reporting into the Head of Marketing Campaigns & Content. The postholder will lead end-to-end marketing activity for a busy cultural events programme, picking up an in-flight schedule and working with minimal onboarding.
You’ll operate with a high degree of autonomy while collaborating closely with in-house specialists across design, web, PR and social media. The role involves extensive internal and external stakeholder management and requires confidence influencing and negotiating at senior level.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead marketing delivery for a programme of live cultural and performance events
- Own campaigns end-to-end, from planning through to execution and evaluation
- Manage ticketing set-up and sales activity using a dedicated ticketing platform
- Work closely with internal teams across design, web, PR and social media to deliver campaigns
- Manage relationships with external partners, venues and agencies
- Use audience and sales data to optimise campaigns and report on performance
- Ensure all event content across websites, email and ticketing platforms is accurate and up to date
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering marketing for cultural or live events
- Direct experience working with classical music programmes and the performing arts sector
- Confident self-starter, comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced events environment
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing and negotiation skills, including senior stakeholders
- Hands‑on experience with email marketing and CMS platforms (e.g. DotDigital and Drupal or similar)
- Experience working with ticketing systems such as Spektrix or equivalent
- Strong working knowledge across digital, print, PR and social media marketing
