Marketing Executive

Sunderland, UK (On-site)

£30K/yr – £40K/yrMid LevelPermanent

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the social media and content engine for a multi-brand esports portfolio, with ownership of planning, scheduling, and paid campaigns across Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube and Google Ads to drive audience growth and commercial outcomes.

  • Social presence: own organisation-wide social channels and detailed content calendars across all platforms.
  • Campaign orchestration: plan and manage campaigns, launches and events with brand-consistent messaging and audience targeting.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain an organisation wide marketing plan supporting all business units.
  • Produce and manage detailed marketing schedules for campaigns, launches and events.
  • Coordinate marketing activity across British Esports, The Place, British Arena, National Esports Performance Campus, IDEG, Student Champs and other organisation wide events and activations.
  • Ensure campaigns meet our corporate identity, engage our audience and are delivered on time, on budget and against agreed objectives.
  • Support the Commercial Vice President to deliver strategic marketing priorities.
  • Take ownership of all organisational social media channels across multiple brands.
  • Develop and maintain a comprehensive social media strategy.
  • Build and manage detailed content calendars across all platforms.
  • Schedule, publish and optimise content using appropriate management tools.
  • Work closely with the Content Manager and external partners to brief, coordinate and deliver creative assets.
  • Ensure brand consistency whilst tailoring messaging for different audiences.
  • Monitor emerging trends and identify opportunities to increase engagement and audience growth.
  • Plan, create and manage paid social media campaigns across Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube and other relevant platforms.
  • Deliver Google Ads campaigns including Search, Display and Performance Max where appropriate.
  • Manage advertising budgets effectively with a clear focus on commercial return.
  • Build targeted audiences, retargeting campaigns and lookalike audiences.
  • Continually optimise campaigns using data and performance insights.
  • Produce clear reporting demonstrating ROI, lead generation, attendance, bookings and commercial performance.
  • Support the promotion and delivery of conferences, competitions, tournaments, hospitality events and venue activities.

Requirements

  • Understanding of esports and gaming communities.
  • Significant experience successfully managing multiple social media platforms professionally.
  • Proven experience planning and delivering successful digital marketing campaigns.
  • Demonstrable experience managing paid advertising across Meta and Google.
  • Evidence of delivering measurable commercial outcomes through marketing activity.
  • Strong understanding of current social media best practice and emerging trends.
  • Excellent campaign planning and project management skills.
  • Experience producing detailed marketing plans and content schedules.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret marketing data.
  • Excellent written communication and copywriting skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
  • Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
  • Commercially minded with a proactive, solution focused approach.
  • Confident working both independently and collaboratively.

Preferred

  • Experience working within events, venues, education, hospitality or sport.
  • Experience using CRM platforms and email marketing software.
  • Knowledge of SEO and website content management.
  • Experience using scheduling platforms such as Hootsuite, or similar.
  • Experience working with Adobe Creative Cloud.
  • Experience promoting ticketed events.
  • Experience supporting sponsorship activation.

Benefits

  • Benefits: * Company pension * Private medical insurance

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