Marketing Technology Manager

London, UK (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelPermanent

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the MarTech stack with cross-functional influence, prioritising tool governance, data-driven messaging, and supplier/agency partnerships to deliver personalised campaigns at scale.

  • Own platform governance and activation for digital marketing tools across the business.
  • Drive platform integrations and data workflows to enable automated, personalised communications.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and agencies to deliver end-to-end automated campaigns and ensure timely delivery.

Job Description

Own and manage Digital Marketing tools through the stack, providing support to primary users across the business in delivering relevant and personalised messaging to our customers.

  • Support the delivery of end-to-end Digital Marketing capability with robust, performant platform and data integrations.
  • Developing functional capabilities by maximising usage of features within existing tools, and delivering Buy Build Partner assessments in collaboration with Product and Engineering stakeholders where capability gaps are identified
  • Facilitating training & development on the tools for cross-functional stakeholders to ensure optimal activation of available capabilities, and unlocking operational efficiencies
  • Planning target state strategy for this part of the stack based on assessment of business impact and operational requirements
  • Managing relationships and contracts with suppliers we leverage to deliver market-leading communications in this space.
  • Working collaboratively with our agency to support the delivery of complex communications programmes through an automated, data-driven delivery pipeline
  • Build great relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across the business so that work is delivered on time

Requirements

  • Significant experience managing and optimising enterprise-scale Marketing Technology (MarTech) platforms, delivering measurable business outcomes through customer engagement, personalisation or digital marketing programmes.
  • Hands-on experience implementing and supporting marketing technology integrations, including digital experience platforms, CMS/DAM solutions, personalisation tools, tagging, tracking and customer data workflows.
  • Strong technical knowledge of marketing and customer data ecosystems, including practical experience using platforms such as GA4, GCP, Snowflake, Azure, Adobe, Tealium or similar analytics and data technologies to improve marketing effectiveness and measurement.
  • Proven experience leading complex stakeholder engagement across technical and non-technical teams, including translating technical requirements into business solutions and influencing senior stakeholders to secure buy-in and adoption.
  • Demonstrable experience managing MarTech projects or roadmaps from strategy through delivery, including identifying capability gaps, building business cases, managing external suppliers/agencies, and delivering measurable commercial or operational benefits.
  • High data literacy and expert knowledge of data-driven digital marketing technology: the technicalities of how data powers effective marketing activity, especially in the content space
  • A high level of industry and competitor awareness, with an ambition to make us a digital leader.
  • Commercial acumen, being able to produce accurate business proposals.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills
  • Good project management and communication skills

Nice to have

  • Enthusiasm for scoping and delivering projects
  • Agency and supplier management.
  • Strong influencing skills to work with a number of internal stakeholders on several concurrent workstreams
  • Be very self-driven, the role requires someone with energy to manage the strategy from end to end at pace.
  • Being able to deliver things quickly and proactively: retail fast environment

Benefits

  • We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
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Sainsbury’s

Over 150 years old and still going strong, we’re the UK’s second-biggest retailer. Every day, the nation shops with us because they know they’ll get affordable, good food and excellent service.We focus on great value and convenient shopping across our family of brands, from Argos, Nectar and Habitat to Sainsbury’s Bank, Smart Charge and Tu.What’s next for Sainsbury’s?We've put food back at the heart of our business and we’re taking Sainsbury’s to the next level. We’re investing in technology and people and we’re thinking bigger about how we attract and connect with our customers, while doing everything we can to create a more resilient UK food system.

London, England, GBR
72K employees (3,187 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
512.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
47.3%
Direct
33.4%
Referral
17.5%
Social
1.2%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~71.6K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3,187 (4% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

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