Marketing Manager

Saffron Walden, Hertfordshire, UK (Hybrid)

£45K/yr – £55K/yrMid LevelContract

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own and orchestrate mortgage marketing tied to broker channels, blending strategy, campaign execution, and cross-functional compliance to drive broker engagement and materials delivery.

  • Growth Strategy: Develop and drive marketing plans for mortgage products while strengthening broker relationships.
  • Campaign Execution: Plan and oversee campaigns across digital, print, social, and events with timely delivery.
  • Collaboration & Compliance: Align with Product, Sales, and Compliance to ensure accurate, compliant messaging and assets.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead Marketing Strategy : Develop and execute comprehensive marketing plans that promote our mortgage products and strengthen broker relationships. You’ll encourage and motivate teams to try new approaches and really stand-out in the market.
  • Campaign Management: Oversee campaign planning, content creation, and channel management across digital, print, social and event platforms.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Sales, and Compliance teams to ensure messaging is accurate, engaging, and compliant with regulatory standards.Broker
  • Engagement: Manage ad hoc broker communications, support intermediary events, and oversee marketing assets that highlight product features and service propositions.
  • Performance Monitoring: Track campaign performance, optimise engagement strategies, and ensure timely delivery of marketing materials.
  • Team Leadership: Coach/manage junior members of the marketing team, providing development opportunities and fostering a collaborative environment.

Requirements

  • Thorough understanding of the mortgage market and broker/intermediary landscape: you’ll want to hit the ground running so need to know your way around the mortgage market and appreciate the crucial role brokers play for a lender like Saffron. Experience in specialist/complex products is an advantage.
  • Strong Stakeholder Management: Ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, especially sales teams, product managers and external agencies. Flexibility, energy and speed are key to success here.
  • Digital Fluency: You’ll be willing and able to get involved with key digital initiatives such as upgrading our website and improving our presence on social media channels.
  • Creative Thinking: Innovative mindset to develop engaging marketing strategies across digital, social and events – and ability to measure results to learn fast.
  • Expertise in Marketing: Proficiency in brand management, content creation and B2B marketing strategies.

Benefits

  • 33 days holiday including bank holidays
  • Holiday Exchange Scheme (buy or sell holiday days)
  • Performance Dependent Annual Bonus Company
  • Pension Scheme with 5% Employee and 8.5% Employer contributions (subject to eligibility, TCs)
  • Life Assurance Income Protection
  • A flexible and supportive working culture including access to mental health first aiders
  • Hybrid working - expectation twice per month + face to face monthly manager 1:1's and team meetings
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Saffron Building Society

3.6 Glassdoor

We are different because we put people at the heart of our business. We opened our doors in 1849 to help people save and borrow. Since then, our products have changed with the times, but what has stayed the same is our commitment to youWho are we?We’re a mutual, regional building society with extremely strong ties within the local community. This puts us in a unique position and helps us to really understand our customers’ needs so we can offer them a personal service. We can do this because as a mutual, everything we do is for our members.What do we do?We combine a competitive range of savings and mortgage products with an ambition to deliver better service.It’s our service that really sets us apart. Time and again, our people go above and beyond to make sure our customers are taken care of.Did you know? Saffron Building Society is a major employer in the region. With a thriving operations centre and our dynamic administration offices in close proximity to Saffron Walden, along with 8 successful branches through Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire, we offer a variety of exciting job opportunities.

Saffron Walden, England, GBR
202 employees (4 in marketing)
62% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
32.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.2%
Direct
53.1%
Referral
3.6%
Social
0.1%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~202

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (2% of company)