Digital Marketing Executive

Guildford, Surrey, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Support end-to-end digital marketing for B2B events, driving audience growth, lead generation, and campaign performance across email, web, social, and assets.

  • Campaign execution: plan and deliver market-leading digital campaigns for events across email, social, web, and paid media.
  • Asset & content ops: create marketing materials, maintain websites, and track performance and analytics.
  • Lead development & collaboration: generate qualified leads and support commercial teams with data-driven insights and cross-functional coordination.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • A-Z Marketing Campaigns: Apply best practice to plan and deliver market-leading digital marketing campaigns for our B2B events to drive audience growth, customer acquisition and revenue performance.
  • Email Marketing: Build and send engaging promotional emails. This will involve design, copywriting, data selection, sending email campaigns, tracking and reporting on performance.
  • Website Updates: Ensure our event websites are always up to date, on-brand, and looking their best.
  • Sales & Marketing Material: Produce visual, informative marketing assets (media kits, digital brochures etc.).
  • Web Analytics: Analyse website traffic and the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
  • Social Media: Execute social media activities to build community and raise engagement across our events.
  • Lead Generation: Assist our commercial teams by providing them with qualified leads.
  • General Digital Support: Support the Senior Digital Marketing Manager across a broad range of marketing activities.

Requirements

  • Experience in a marketing role within a fast‑paced environment.
  • Familiarity with multichannel digital campaigns across email, social, web and paid media.
  • Working knowledge of digital marketing platforms, analytics and performance reporting.
  • Understanding of SEO principles and paid media fundamentals.
  • Ability to interpret data and use insights to support optimisation and decision‑making.
  • Strong written communication skills with excellent attention to detail.
  • A collaborative approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
  • Familiarity with marketing automation, CRM systems, CMS platforms or design tools is advantageous.
  • Experience in event marketing would be a huge advantage.

Benefits

  • 6.6 weeks of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time). The equivalent to 25 days plus standard England and Wales bank holidays for full-time colleagues
  • One additional day holiday per year after 6 years’ service, up to a maximum 7.6 weeks of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time). The equivalent to 30 days plus standard England and Wales bank holidays for full-time colleagues
  • A holiday purchase scheme, allowing employees to purchase up to 3 additional days of annual leave and spread the cost over up to 6 months
  • An additional day of paid leave, a ‘MeDay’, allowing you the flexibility to celebrate a cultural or religious event or your birthday. It recognises that everyone’s background is unique and gives you the freedom to mark what matters to you.
  • One paid volunteering day per year to support a charity or community initiative of your choice
  • Hybrid and agile working opportunities (role dependent)
  • Enhanced Pension Contributions, we offer employer pension contributions above the statutory minimum
  • Life Assurance Scheme
  • Group Income Protection
  • Enhanced family-friendly leave pay entitlements
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William Reed Ltd

We are William Reed, the trusted digital, high value data and events business serving the food and drinks sector for over 160 years.Since 1862, we've been committed to creating impactful connections that inspire and empower our clients, harnessing the latest technology along the way.Today, we're recognised for outstanding multi-platform digital and print media, compelling research, powerful insights, innovative exhibitions and events, prestigious awards and informative conferences. We've been owned and led by the same family since the beginning, providing us with a unique long-term perspective and commitment to our industry that permeates our company. That's why our passionate and authoritative specialists are deeply engaged in their markets and seen as the most trusted professionals in their field.

Pease Pottage, England, GBR
486 employees (161 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
28K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
42.5%
Direct
42.1%
Referral
9.4%
Social
4.5%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~486

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
146 (30% of company)