Senior Marketing Strategist/Director

The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, globally recognised for its authority, integrity and accuracy, with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide. Here, you’re given the chance to reach millions, create work that matters and deliver impartial journalism in a polarised world. In our warm, collaborative culture, you’ll connect with a diverse community of experts who support your growth, career aspirations and wellbeing. Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion This role is to be a Senior marketing manager in the Executive Programmes team, that sits within a new FT department (FT Leaders) – preparing FT readers for leadership – from the classroom to the boardroom. Executive Programmes focuses on professional development and open learning courses for executives looking to advance their careers. This ranges from annual programmes (such as Future Leaders and Women In Business) involving regular in person events and webinars to executive education courses (such as the Financial Times Cambridge Strategy course) involving in-person workshops and online webinars. FT Executive Programmes is seeking a Senior Marketing Manager to help launch the newly built business area – ensuring we have developed the right brand, values and messaging and setting out a marketing and communications plan to relevant external and internal (FT) audiences. A large focus of the role will be identifying new target audiences and developing a fuller understanding of the market and audience needs, crafting inbound and outbound marketing strategies that demonstrate this insight. Defining and implementing the overall marketing strategy for a portfolio of professional development products with an objective to grow revenue, engage existing and attract new audiences. Devising a data strategy to ensure that we are able to meet our strategic objectives, expand our databases and fulfill our obligations on client led initiatives. Strategic Planning: Develop marketing budgets in line with operating plans and ensure budget trackers across the portfolio are kept up to date. Work with other teams to design cross-channel marketing strategies to meet strategic objectives of individual products as well as the portfolio as a whole. Design operational implementation plans including key achievements across the portfolio and ensure adherence to deadlines. Create a data build and cleanse strategy. Map customer segmentation using demographics, psychographics, and other marketing techniques to predict behaviour. Deliver against revenue and attendance targets and support the commercial team in meeting targets. Develop a content marketing strategy that enables the distribution of strong, engaging digital content to customers and associated communities, that supports engagement, acquisition, conversion, upsell, and advocacy activities. Identify data gaps and design steps to close these across the portfolio. Responsible for each product’s digital presence and take primary responsibility for the front-end sites and all marketing assets, working with the design team closely to create these. Ownership of the marketing execution across the portfolio. Supervise performance of all marketing campaigns across the portfolio and recommend performance improvement tactics if vital. Ensure all marketing activity and results are supervised and measured to allow dynamic investment based on analysis of current and past performance. 5+ years of marketing experience, ideally with an education and/or events background Passion for innovation and AI These include generous annual leave, medical cover, inclusive parental leave packages, subsidised gym memberships, and opportunities to give back to the community. We’ve embraced a 50% hybrid working model (averaging two to three days onsite) that fosters trust and remote adaptability while encouraging in-person camaraderie and peer learning. Additionally, we are open to accommodating specific flexible working pattern requests for all roles where feasible. We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, email talent@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help. 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