Email Marketing Manager

London, UK (Hybrid)

£34K/yr – £44K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end email lifecycle across multiple products, shaping audience segments, personalisation, and automated journeys to lift activation, retention, and conversion.

  • Lifecycle ownership: manage sophisticated customer journeys, triggered emails, and nurture programmes across B2C and B2B audiences.
  • Segmentation and personalisation: use behavioural, demographic, and transactional data to improve relevance and conversion.
  • Audience quality and compliance: maintain lists and ensure data quality with CRM and Data Lead.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Plan, build, test, and deploy email campaigns across D&AD’s portfolio
  • Own and manage the email campaign calendar and coordinate communications across multiple products and teams
  • Work closely with content, design, and marketing colleagues to develop compelling email campaigns
  • Ensure all campaigns are delivered accurately, on time, and in line with brand guidelines
  • Manage A/B testing and continuous optimisation programmes
  • Write compelling content for all email campaigns, with a sharp eye for what makes people open, click and take action.
  • Oversee the curation of high-quality imagery to ensure emails are visually appealing and feel right for each audience.
  • Use audience data - transactional, demographic, engagement and behavioural insights to identify audience intent, predict customer needs, and develop lifecycle marketing strategies that increase conversion, retention, and long-term audience value.
  • Work with customer and audience data to develop sophisticated segmentation strategies to deliver personalised communications and continuously improve customer experience and conversion throughout the lifecycle.
  • Maintain audience lists and ensure data quality and compliance collaborating with our CRM and Data Lead

Requirements

  • Significant experience in email marketing, CRM, lifecycle marketing, or marketing automation roles within a complex B2B organisation, ideally across education, events, or multi-product environment.
  • Proven experience managing high-volume email programmes across multiple products and audience segments, balancing competing priorities while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
  • Strong expertise in designing, building, and optimising sophisticated customer journeys, automated workflows, nurture programmes, and triggered communications.
  • Experience developing complex audience segmentation and personalisation strategies using behavioural, demographic, engagement, and transactional data.
  • A strong understanding of lead generation and lead nurturing, with experience moving prospects through consideration, enquiry, application, and purchase journeys.
  • Confidence working across both B2B and B2C audiences, adapting messaging and customer journeys to different audience needs and behaviours.
  • Experience using CRM and marketing automation platforms to deliver scalable, data-driven marketing programmes.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret campaign performance, identify opportunities, and translate insights into action.
  • Excellent project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple campaigns, stakeholders, deadlines, and approval processes simultaneously.

Preferred

  • Ideally, you'll also have experience working across learning programmes, events, professional development products, or creative industries, and a passion for delivering exceptional audience experiences through smart, effective communications.
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D&AD is a membership organisation, awards programme and educational charity serving the global design and advertising community. It promotes, stimulates and awards creative excellence in business communication. Not for profit, it aims to generate funding to provide material support to creative people around the world. The ultimate standard of creative excellence ✏️ Coming soon: D&AD Awards 2026

Founded in 1962
London Colney, England, GBR
546 employees (112 in marketing)
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Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
399.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$26.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.9%
Direct
44.6%
Referral
6.7%
Social
2.8%
Paid
0.9%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~546

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
45 (8% of company)