Chief Marketing & Growth Officer

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver our integrated growth, marketing, external engagement and communications strategies.
• Hold executive responsibility for a significant portfolio spanning marketing, communications, student recruitment, admissions and market development.
• Identify opportunities for sustainable growth, market expansion and education-related income.
• Operate at the intersection of strategy, growth and reputation, bringing a market-informed perspective to our Executive Group and institutional decision-making.
• Ensure market intelligence, customer understanding and external insight inform strategic planning, academic portfolio and investment decisions.
• Connect our institutional ambitions with the needs of learners, employers, partners and wider society; translate ambition into focused, deliverable and sustainable plans.
• Collaborate across Faculties and Professional Services to build shared ownership of growth ambitions.

Requirements

• An accomplished executive leader who combines strategic judgement, commercial awareness and a deep understanding of how growth, reputation and market positioning contribute to organisational success.
• Experience delivering growth, brand, marketing, customer, commercial or other market-facing outcomes.
• Experience leading growth strategies, building brands, developing new markets, strengthening customer or student engagement or delivering commercial outcomes at scale.
• Ability to apply strategic and commercial judgement and to use data, market intelligence and customer insight to inform decisions.
• Experience in providing executive or senior leadership within a large and complex organisation.
• Ability to identify opportunities, assess risk and navigate complexity; communicate and influence effectively with a wide range of audiences; build productive relationships with senior colleagues and external stakeholders; lead and develop substantial multidisciplinary teams; deliver outcomes through influence, collaboration and formal authority.
• Experience in leading growth strategies and market development in a context that balances commercial judgement with institutional values, academic ambition and public purpose.

Preferred

• Higher education experience will be highly valued but is not essential.
• We recognise that relevant insight and leadership capability can be developed in a range of settings.
• We are therefore open to candidates whose experience brings fresh thinking, provided you can demonstrate a genuine understanding of our environment and a strong commitment to our purpose.