Marketing Manager

Bedford, IN (On-site)

£41K/yr – £48K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategic marketing and campaign delivery to support student recruitment, coordinating across channels and stakeholders.

  • Own multi-channel acquisition campaigns and CRM workflows to meet recruitment targets.
  • Must-have: At least three years designing and delivering impactful campaigns with budget management.
  • Standout: Leadership of marketing staff and cross-campus collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Marketing Strategy & Campaign Delivery – Develop and deliver high‑quality acquisition and conversion marketing plans to meet recruitment targets, using insight‑led strategy, CRM workflows and multi‑channel campaigns.
  • Brand, Content & Student Experience Promotion – Lead the creation and delivery of compelling online and offline marketing collateral, prospectuses and social media content that promotes the student experience and strengthens brand reputation.
  • Stakeholder Partnership & Agency‑Style Service– Act as the key marketing partner for curriculum and senior stakeholders, ensuring coherent, timely and high‑quality delivery of marketing activity aligned to business objectives.
  • Team Leadership, Performance & Resources – Lead, manage and develop marketing staff, overseeing performance, CPD, budgets and resources while contributing to business planning and self‑assessment.
  • Governance, Representation & Compliance – Represent senior marketing leadership internally and externally, support events and recruitment activity, and uphold safeguarding, EDI, health & safety and continuous professional development requirements.

Requirements

  • Qualifications & Professional Development – Degree‑educated in marketing, business or a related field, with clear evidence of ongoing CPD and commitment to keeping skills and knowledge up to date.
  • Marketing Strategy & Campaign Delivery – At least three years’ experience designing and delivering impactful marketing campaigns, with strong copywriting, project management and budget management capability.
  • Digital Marketing & CRM Expertise – Strong digital skillset including paid social advertising, email marketing and CRM platforms (ideally Microsoft Dynamics and ClickDimensions), supported by excellent IT proficiency.
  • Leadership, Organisation & Judgement – Experience managing or supervising staff, highly organised with strong attention to detail, able to prioritise workloads, apply policies effectively and drive continuous improvement.
  • Communication, Values & Flexibility – Confident communicator across all levels, aligned with College values of student focus and high performance, flexible to work outside normal hours and able to travel independently across campuses and events.

Benefits

  • People’s pension
  • Retail and Leisure Discounts
  • excellent professional and personal development opportunities
  • accessing college courses
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Central Bedfordshire College

Central Bedfordshire College is a general Further Education College based in Dunstable in Central Bedfordshire.The College operates from 5 main campuses around Central Bedfordshire and 1 campus in Luton. The College offers a wide range of vocational courses for over 3,000 students within the local Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire area. We are very much involved in preparing Central Bedfordshire to respond to massive housing growth planned by the Government up to 2031 and meeting the skills needs of the local economy. Our Mission:We will provide excellent learning and progression for our communities in Bedfordshire and beyond. We will be innovative, enterprising and inclusive in what we do and how we do it. We will value and support our learners, our colleagues, and our partnerships.

Founded in 1961
Dunstable, England, GBR
243 employees (6 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
81K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
56%
Direct
34.6%
Referral
7.9%
Social
0.9%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~243

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2 (1% of company)