Digital Marketing Lead

Southampton, City of Southampton, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelPermanent

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-channel marketing execution from paid media to CRM, with a heavy emphasis on data-driven optimization, attribution, and tech stack health that ties campaigns to bookings.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Own agency partnerships, KPI setting, performance reviews, and accountability across external collaborators.
  • Paid Media & SEO: Plan and optimise campaigns across Google, Meta, TikTok and drive organic growth through technical/on-page SEO.
  • CRM, Analytics & Ops: Build automated journeys, dashboards, and end-to-end reporting to leadership, using data to drive ROI.

Job Description

Own the full digital marketing stack with agency partners, paid media, SEO, CRM, analytics, and cross-team collaboration to drive bookings and property growth.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Own the agency relationship, setting objectives, reviewing performance, and holding partners accountable for results.
  • Paid Media: Manage and optimise all paid media campaigns across platforms including Google Ads, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), TikTok, and other relevant channels, whether in-house or via partners.
  • SEO & Content Alignment: Develop and execute the SEO strategy, driving organic visibility and traffic growth across the Unilife website.
  • CRM & Email Marketing: Lead CRM and email marketing, building automated journeys, nurture sequences, and targeted campaigns to convert leads into bookings.
  • Marketing Analytics: Own marketing analytics and reporting end to end – extracting data from multiple sources, building dashboards, and presenting insight-led reports to leadership.
  • Data-Driven Optimisation: Use data to identify opportunities, diagnose underperformance, and make evidence-based recommendations that drive commercial outcomes.
  • MarTech & Data Integrity: Manage and optimise the marketing technology stack, including CRM, analytics, and campaign tools, ensuring data integrity and system integration.
  • Campaign Ops: Plan, execute, and optimise digital campaigns end to end, from audience targeting and creative briefing through to A/B testing and performance analysis.
  • Content Collaboration: Work closely with the Content Marketing Lead to ensure creative assets are optimised for digital performance across paid and organic channels.
  • Platform Integration: Collaborate with the Technology Lead to ensure marketing platforms, tracking, and data systems are properly integrated and functioning at scale.
  • Budget & Forecasting: Manage the digital marketing budget, forecasting spend, tracking performance against targets, and reallocating budget to maximise return.
  • Trend & Best Practices: Stay up to date with digital marketing trends, platform updates, and best practices to keep Unilife ahead of the competition.
  • Growth Team Support: Support the wider Growth Team on cross-functional projects, contributing digital expertise to business development and B2B growth initiatives.
  • Stelling Properties Marketing Support: Provide marketing support to Stelling Properties, shaping the digital presence and marketing strategy across a growing property group.
  • Requirements: Proven experience in digital marketing, performance marketing, or a similar data-led marketing role, ideally within a B2C or student-facing environment.
  • Requirements: Strong hands-on experience with paid media platforms (Google Ads, Meta Business Suite, TikTok Ads) with a track record of delivering measurable results – whether managed directly or through agency partners.
  • Requirements: Experience managing external agencies and partners, including setting KPIs, reviewing performance, and driving accountability.
  • Requirements: Confident extracting, analysing, and presenting marketing data using tools such as Excel, Looker (Data Studio), Power BI, or other BI and analytics platforms – with the ability to turn numbers into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
  • Requirements: Solid understanding of SEO principles and experience driving organic growth through technical and on-page optimisation.
  • Requirements: Experience with CRM and email marketing platforms (e.g. HubSpot, Mailchimp, Salesforce, or similar), including building automated journeys and segmentation.
  • Requirements: Experience managing digital marketing budgets and optimising spend for maximum ROI.
  • Requirements: Strong understanding of conversion rate optimisation (CRO) and A/B testing.
  • Requirements: Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to present performance data and strategic recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders.
  • Requirements: Proactive, analytical, and commercially minded – comfortable in a fast-paced, results-driven environment.
  • Requirements: A full UK driving licence, to enable travel between properties.
  • Benefits: 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
  • Benefits: Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Benefits: Pension scheme.
  • Benefits: Annual performance-based bonus.
  • Benefits: Regular team socials and events to celebrate our wins together.
  • Benefits: Mileage allowance for travel away from place of work.
  • Benefits: Health plan with Simplyhealth, including GP access and support for everyday healthcare costs.
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LUV Infinity Group is an exciting UK based umbrella company for a multitude of brands, ranging from nightclubs, bars to restaurants all over the United KingdomLUV Infinity Group has a firm Impression on the UK Nightlife and hospitality industry with our venues bringing thousands of smiles to customers faces every day since 2009; and we only continue to expand and grow today.We pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box, being innovative within our ideas & providing the best quality product across each and every diverse brand that we have created.Focusing at the heart of our business, our people; we believe a successful business begins with the people who operate it & we continually reinvent the wheel when it comes to what makes us good employers – this is what drives us.

Founded in 2009
Bristol, England, GBR
31 employees (4 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
425M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$18.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.5%
Direct
31.4%
Referral
5.8%
Social
4%
Paid
5.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~31

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (10% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
670