Director of Brand, Marketing, Purpose and Corporate Affairs

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the brand-and-marketing engine to translate a clear societal purpose into campaigns, customer experience, and partnerships that grow engagement and deliver commercial impact.

  • Shape a consistent brand experience across channels to support commercial outcomes for savings, mortgages, and financial advice.
  • Lead end-to-end marketing and CRM to acquire, engage, and retain members while maximizing community impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and delivery of a distinctive, purpose-led strategy that drives sustainable growth and deepens member engagement.
  • Be accountable for shaping a compelling, consistent brand experience across all channels—supporting strong commercial outcomes across savings, mortgages, and financial advice.
  • Partner with senior stakeholders to identify opportunities, solve complex business challenges, and maximise the impact of brand, marketing, and corporate affairs.
  • Define and embed a clear purpose—bringing it to life through campaigns, customer experience, and community activity—ensuring it is visible in every interaction.
  • Lead end-to-end marketing and CRM strategy, overseeing customer acquisition, engagement, and retention.
  • Build strong cross-functional collaboration across the organisation.
  • Drive innovation and digital capability through to managing external reputation and strategic partnerships.
  • Deliver measurable commercial success alongside meaningful community impact.

Benefits

  • Financial
  • Corporate bonus scheme (on target 20%, up to a maximum 30%)
  • Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
  • Annual performance related pay reviews
  • Colleague mortgage scheme
  • Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
  • Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
  • Access to our financial advisers
  • Access to a range of high street and online discounts
  • Work/Life Balance
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Newcastle Building Society

Newcastle Building Society has provided trusted financial products and services for more than 150 years. As one of the biggest building societies in the North East, we’re still small enough to care deeply about our members, employees and the communities we serve. Our Head Office sits at Cobalt Business Park in North Tyneside, with high-street branches across our region. Because we’re committed to the principles of mutuality, it means we put our customers and the communities we serve first. We pride ourselves on our friendly, knowledgeable service that starts and finishes with a smile.

Founded in 1980
GBR
926 employees (26 in marketing)