Marketing Manager - Maternity Cover

Hayle, Cornwall, UK (On-site)

£38K/yr – £40K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the UK travel brand’s omni-channel marketing engine with end-to-end channel ownership, audience growth, and brand storytelling that resonates across Guests, Owners and Staff.

  • Growth Infrastructure: Build and optimize cross-channel programs across digital, social, email, PR, and events.
  • Brand & Content: Shape authentic storytelling and maintain a consistent tone across touchpoints.
  • Audience Strategy: Grow and segment audiences, time campaigns for peak engagement and conversion.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Developing and implementing an omni-channel marketing strategy, covering digital, social media, email, PR, outreach & events.
  • Craft compelling content with passion and authenticity to drive our brand messaging and help Guests, Owners & Staff be inspired by our business.
  • Conduct market research, analyse industry trends, benchmark our performance and understand our placement against competitors.
  • Understand and grow our audience, develop new audiences and ensure our campaigns reach and engage these audiences at the optimum moment.
  • Ensuring consistent, high-quality communication across all touchpoints. Share our ethos and passion for what we do.
  • Continually measure and make iterative changes to our marketing channels to improve performance across the entire marketing mix.
  • Analyse our data to optimise our websites and channels. A/B test, Iterate and experiment with the UX through our journey to increase conversion and engagement.
  • Enhance our brand positioning and visibility across the UK market ensuring alignment with business goals and organisational processes. Oversee outreach campaigns to find affiliates and partner brands who we align with.
  • Collaborate with designers, developers, photographers & stakeholders to maintain, develop and raise our company profile.
  • Manage your own budget, inspire your own team and lead the company’s marketing operation as the key decision maker.

Requirements

  • Three or more years’ experience in a Marketing Manager or similar role, ideally within the Travel, Hospitality, or Property sectors.
  • Education to a minimum of a bachelor’s degree.
  • Strong understanding of Digital Marketing channels and analytics tools.
  • Excellent copywriting and communication skills.
  • Branding experience would be an advantage
  • Creativity, with a passion for storytelling and creating inspiring campaigns.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and optimise performance.
  • A proactive, hands-on approach with strong project management skills.
  • Experience managing budgets and external suppliers.
  • A passion for UK travel and a good understanding of the holiday letting market would be a real advantage.
  • Strong leadership skills and ability to make bold decisions.
  • Comfortable engaging multi discipline teams across to deliver change.
  • Excellent phone manner and confidence asserting the company strategy or performance to stakeholders, press, or property owners.
  • Full UK Driving Licence.

Benefits

  • Competitive annual salary of £38,000-£40,000
  • Company performance related bonus, approximately £4,000 per annum
  • 33 days holiday, including bank holidays, plus a day off for your birthday
  • Work mobile phone and laptop
  • Company pension and life insurance
  • 3 paid volunteering days per year
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Discounts on holidays within our group portfolio
  • Additional leave
  • Company events
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Classic Cottages

We are the holiday letting specialists, exclusively marketing idyllic holiday homes across the UK. Established in 1977, we have since expanded our portfolio from a few cottages in a picturesque fishing village in Cornwall, to a collection of properties across all corners of our beautiful British Isles.

Founded in 1977
Hayle, England, GBR
57 employees (9 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
255.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.4%
Direct
38.2%
Referral
10.6%
Social
0.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~57

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
7 (12% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1