Head of Marketing

Bristol, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale a high-impact marketing engine at Zing365 to build awareness, educate buyers across L&D, HR, and the C‑suite, and fuel ABM-driven pipeline through value-led, multi-channel content and events.

  • Grow brand equity and thought leadership through case studies and leadership content tailored to decision-makers.
  • Distribute via email, social, and website with testing and SEO/Geo optimization.
  • Enable sales with ABM content, intelligent lead scoring, and events/partnerships.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Main duty: Support ambitious growth plans of Zing365 by building awareness and brand equity through consistent production of high-quality, value-led thought leadership content and multi-channel, audience-refined, tech-enabled distribution thereof, while also supporting the sales team with intelligent ABM
  • Continuously create great content (case studies, thought leadership pieces, etc.) that is in and of itself valuable to our customers and prospects (“value-led), from the perspective of the different types of decision-makers in our target companies (L&D, HR, compliance, C-suite, etc.)
  • Collaborate with our in-house subject-matter experts, commercial teams and clients, as relevant to the content being produced
  • Distribute content in a sophisticated manner via email, social media and our website (including open-rate testing, A/B conversion testing, paid social, SEO/GEO, etc.)
  • Own our attendance at conferences and events and run proprietary webinars and in-person events, as well as manage sponsorships and press relationships, as needed
  • Own and maintain our large, already-clean HubSpot market database: contacts, companies, job roles, audience lists
  • Nurture and score leads until they reach MQL using all available technology (HubSpot, content tracking, AI)
  • Create bespoke intelligent content for ABM to support sales team
  • Own brand and brand assets
  • Work with MD on market positioning and marketing strategy
  • Think of and create intelligent Marketing Partnerships, creating supporting literature and liaising with MD

Requirements

  • A demonstrated track record of having built a high-quality, highly intentional marketing engine for at least one B2B SaaS company
  • Commercial: Able to understand the problems we solve for our clients and the general 'tone' and 'psychology' of our regulated end-market (Insurance)
  • Content & creativity: Solid editorial and copywriting skills and capable use of Canva, PowerPoint, Word to create engaging and differentiating marketing assets, such as pitch decks, thought leadership pieces, brochures, banners
  • Technical distribution: Proficiency in using AI tools (likely Claude) and all distribution channels (HubSpot, email, paid social, website, print mailers) and in optimising them through technology (A/B testing landing pages, lead-capture forms, HotJar or equivalent, GA4, Google Search Console, automations)
  • Events & PR: Experience in running events, including webinars and in-person events, as well as overall ownership of conference attendance. Experience building relationships with industry press outlets and coordinating PR.
  • Data: Demonstrable affinity for managing a marketing database, both in a CRM and in Excel, and to intelligently segment companies, contacts, and audience lists
  • Project management: Proven ability to efficiently handle external suppliers such as printers, podcast producers, conference organisers, event organisers, website developer, HubSpot consultant, as well as to create buy-in, alignment and collaboration within the team
  • Must-have characteristics: Ambitious, hard worker; Highly organised; Proactive, sense of urgency, results-oriented; Intelligent, highly curious, entrepreneurial problem-solver with attention to detail (we operate in a high-friction B2B market); Team-player, low-ego; Very clear communicator; Can understand strategy & theory but a practitioner / doer at heart

Preferred

  • Marketing to or working for insurance firms
  • Experience using Webflow
Zing365 - Insurance CPD logo

Zing365 - Insurance CPD

Zing365 are the CPD experts of the UK insurance sector. Solutions span e-learning, live training webinars, bespoke training workshops and knowledge assessment tests. Knowledge areas include compliance, technical insurance, leadership, sales and business skills.

Bristol, England, GBR
17 employees (3 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
26%
Direct
62.8%
Referral
6.3%
Social
3.9%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~17

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (18% of company)