CRM Officer

Birmingham, UK (Hybrid)

£32K/yr – £35K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and drive the university's CRM program by delivering engaging campaigns, refining content, and turning data insights into improvements that support applications and offers.

  • Lead the end-to-end CRM cycle with cross-team collaboration
  • Ensure data integrity, consent, and GDPR compliance in the CRM
  • Analyse campaign performance to optimise impact

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the delivery and ongoing success of the University’s CRM strategy through high-quality, engaging campaigns.
  • Create and refine compelling CRM content that tells a clear story and resonates with target audiences.
  • Monitor and analyse campaign performance, using insight to identify opportunities for improvement and optimisation.
  • Work collaboratively across departmental teams to plan and deliver a cohesive cycle of communications.
  • Interpret data to understand how CRM activity contributes to wider goals such as driving applications and offer acceptances.
  • Maintain accurate and compliant data within the CRM system, ensuring data is collected, segmented, and stored correctly.
  • Identify, investigate, and resolve data and performance issues within the CRM database.
  • Track, analyse, and report on campaign effectiveness through email performance metrics.
  • Ensure GDPR compliance when handling high volumes of personal data.
  • Note: The above items are taken directly from the Description under Key Responsibilities.

Requirements

  • Degree or equivalent experience in PR, web, marketing or communications.
  • Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
  • Knowledge of CRM applications.
  • The ability to produce focused, targeted, effective and compelling content.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate both non-technical and technical.

Preferred

  • Experience of HTML coding would be an advantage
  • Producing strong written content for a range of audiences and channels.
  • Experience of CRM and digital trends within the Higher Education sector and commercial sector would be an advantage.

Benefits

  • Work–life balance – Generous leave and hybrid working (role dependent).
  • Career development – Opportunities to grow, develop and progress your career.
  • Reward and wellbeing – Competitive pay, pension, a health cash plan, wellbeing support and a wide range of staff benefits.
  • Inclusive culture – A supportive, diverse environment where everyone belongs.
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Birmingham City University is dedicated to transforming the prospects of our learners, inspiring them to become makers and doers. We are an integral part of the city in which we are based, with courses shaped by the needs of industry and partnerships with some of the country's leading employers. The University focuses on practice-led, knowledge-based learning, providing access to cutting-edge facilities and real-world experience. We benefit from around 50 professional accreditations and have a well-established reputation for delivering in-company training and development programmes. Our teaching staff come from and maintain their links with industry, ensuring you are given an insight into the latest thinking. We are constantly looking for new ways to enhance the learning experience, with inspiring visiting lecturers and learning environments that are designed to replicate the workplaces you aim to enter. We even give you the chance to gain work experience in real roles around the University, through our student employment scheme. The work undertaken by our research staff and research students is not only enriching our courses, it is literally shaping the world. In the Research Excellence Framework 2014, which measures universities’ research performance, 90% of Birmingham City University’s total submission was judged to have delivered ‘outstanding’ or ‘very considerable’ impact externally.We have been pioneering vocational education in the city since 1843, through a series of predecessor institutions. Having achieved University status in 1992, we changed our name to Birmingham City University in 2007, reflecting our commitment to, and pride in, our home city.

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£32K/yr – £35K/yr

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CRM Officer

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