Digital Marketing Manager

London, UK

£50K/yr – £63K/yrSenior LevelPermanent

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize paid and email marketing across Wellcome Trust to drive audience growth, engagement and cross‑team alignment, using data and AI insights to improve outcomes for partners, academics and new audiences.

  • Paid media and newsletter ownership: coordinate planning, buying and optimization across search, social, display and video to deliver coherent campaigns with clear messaging.
  • Cross‑team impact: partner with content, product and brand leads to ensure paid activity aligns with priorities and reaches the right audiences.

Job Description

Own and unify Wellcome Trust’s paid and email marketing across the organisation to grow audiences, engage partners and academics, and convert with timely, relevant messaging.

  • With responsibility for all paid marketing and media activity and newsletter programmes for Wellcome Trust, you will lead the development and delivery of a unified digital marketing strategy, and coordinate an organisation‑wide approach to audience growth, engagement and conversion, ensuring Wellcome’s paid activity and email communications reach the right people, at the right time, with the right message.
  • Champion best practice in digital marketing across news and content, build capability across the organisation and ensure all activity aligns with Wellcome’s mission, brand and strategic priorities.
  • Use data, experimentation and AI‑enabled insight to optimise performance, strengthen Wellcome’s reputation, and deepen engagement with partners, the academic community and new audiences.
  • Work closely with the Wellcome Collection Comms & Marketing team to develop a shared understanding of best-in-class use of digital advertising channels and paid media; ensure robust data usage; share channel and audience insights and learnings.
  • Work with the Content Lead to explore all potential avenues to reach new audiences (search, social, display and video ads, sponsored content, influencer ads and out of home)
  • Oversee planning, buying and optimisation across paid search, paid social, display, video, native and emerging channels.
  • Work closely with programme, brand, content and product teams to ensure paid activity supports organisational priorities and reaches priority audiences.
  • Manage relationships with media agencies, platform managers and external partners, ensuring high‑quality delivery and value for money.
  • Lead a unified newsletter strategy across Wellcome Trust and Wellcome Collection, ensuring communications to partners, the academic community and new audiences are coherent, targeted and impactful.
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Wellcome Trust

Wellcome supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. We’re a global charitable foundation. And we want everyone to benefit from science’s potential to improve health and save lives.We support discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and we’re taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, climate and health and infectious diseases.Ask us questions, comment on posts and share your thoughts with us. We want to spark conversations, inspire debate and create new collaborations.Find out more about Wellcome: https://wellcome.org/who-we-are

Founded in 1936
London, England, GBR
1.5K employees (141 in marketing)