Senior Performance Marketing Manager

Responsibilities

• As the marketing expert for multiple product areas, you’ll lead our digital performance strategies and design campaigns that deliver full-funnel results, from awareness to retention.
• You’ll own planning, forecasting, and budget allocation, using a hands-on approach to test and optimise our targeting, messaging, and channel mix to maximize ROI.
• This role sits right at the intersection of several business functions. You’ll act as the key link between Product, Content, and Brand teams, while working cross-functionally with CRM, SEO, data, engineering, and external agency partners to keep everyone aligned around a shared, commercially driven growth strategy.
• You’ll also turn complex data into actionable strategies.
• By championing advanced measurement and attribution frameworks, you’ll ensure every campaign optimisation and budget decision is backed by clear insights that reflect real business outcomes.
• This is a highly collaborative, commercial role with a real opportunity to influence strategy at a senior level and shape the future of growth at Autotrader.

Requirements

• Strong performance marketing experience, where you've managed performance strategies across multiple channels, looking at how they work together rather than just running isolated paid campaigns.
• You have experience of working with stakeholders between Product, Tech, Content, Brand teams and external agencies and you're comfortable managing expectations up to a senior level.
• You’ve owned performance forecasts and budgets before, using data to predict trends, set goals, and back up your marketing spend.
• You've partnered with Tech and Data teams to set up solid measurement frameworks and figure out what is actually driving results.
• You have hands-on experience running controlled experiments and A/B tests to constantly improve your targeting, messaging, and ROI.
• You’re used to taking high-level product priorities and turning them into simple, actionable marketing plans that deliver commercial results.

Benefits

• We’re offering a salary of £50,000 - £67,500, plus an additional 10% of your salary awarded to you in shares each year.
• These awarded shares will become yours in yearly instalments over the next three years, and you can choose to either sell them or keep them as shares.
• You'll have 28 days holiday per year, and that's in addition to bank holidays and half day closures on Christmas and New Year's Eve.
• That’s not all. You'll be enrolled in our pension scheme, where our standard contributions are 7% and employee contributions are 5%.
• We also have comprehensive private medical cover, enhanced family leave provisions, a car salary sacrifice scheme, share-save options, and much more.
• We always want to give you the support you need and help prioritise your wellbeing, that’s why we provide access to a Digital GP service, as well as specialist support for assisted fertility, gender dysphoria, menopause, period care plans and lots more.
• On top of all that, our hybrid model, Connected Working , combines the best of both worlds – office and home working. You'll spend a minimum of 3 days a week in the office with your team, focused on collaboration and connection.
• Additionally, we have our remote-first periods at set times during summer and winter. During these periods, you can work remotely anywhere in the UK and from certain locations abroad.
• Alongside a wide range of benefits, we'll help you settle in with confidence from day one. If you're successful, one of the first things you'll experience is our tailored new-starter induction programme, Great Start, designed to help you feel welcome, connected, and set up for success.