Senior Marketing Manager - Tax

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Job description

Sales & Marketing is a centralised function and covers all aspects of professional services marketing, sales support and business development. The prime area of focus for the function is to support the development and implementation of the firm's market strategy and in particular to ensure:

• We innovate every day
• We are inclusive by default
• We deliver commercial impact with purpose
• We tell stories that inspire

About the Tax Marketing team

We're looking for a dynamic and commercial Senior Marketer to join our Tax Marketing team, at what is an exciting time of growth for our diverse and fast evolving business.

The Tax marketing team sits within the firm's Sales and Marketing function and is aligned to the Tax business which spans the Corporate Tax practice, People/HR Consulting and Legal Services. Our small senior team is responsible for the development and implementation of the marketing strategy which delivers on the Tax business strategy and the firm's growth priorities.

We are focussed on driving sustainable and profitable growth as well as building relationships with key audiences and defining our brand within selected markets, segments and buyers.

About the role

The job holder will report to the Head of Tax Marketing and work alongside two other Senior Marketing Managers. They will be responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of marketing activity across key areas of the Tax line of service, in conjunction with our technical marketing specialists (who have expertise in Campaign Management, Digital Marketing and Content & Thought Leadership).

The role will require somebody to be confident with marketing strategy development, thought leadership, audience segmentation, customer journey mapping, channel and content management, analytics and ROI measurement.

The jobholder will:

• provide expert advice and challenge to key stakeholders on the best go-to-market approach, and ensure that quality and brand standards are upheld;
• bring the client perspective and deliver the best of PwC to our target audiences;
• ensure that activity is in line with buyer needs, co-ordinated across the business and generates opportunities for high value conversations;
• manage and collaborate effectively with marketing professionals at all grades, who are assigned to deliver campaign elements;
• be accountable for, and have oversight of, the campaign budget to ensure all costs are directed in the most effective way;
• ensure that campaigns and activity are continuously improved and experience, information and knowledge are shared to build on our marketing capability across Sales and Marketing;
• seek new ways and channels to market to better engage with our audiences;
• define short and long-term ROI measures and take responsibility for evaluation and reporting on ROI for all activity;
• work effectively with other parts of Sales and Marketing - especially Business Development, Client Relationship Programmes and the firm's Communications teams; and
• support the Head of Tax Marketing to establish a high performing marketing team.

Who we're looking for:

The jobholder must possess excellent influencing and communication skills to have impact with senior stakeholders, as well as demonstrating a thorough understanding of the firm's commercial and strategic business drivers.

A proven track record of delivering impactful, integrated marketing campaigns is essential. The successful candidate must be able to communicate key business messages to target audiences, through a range of platforms and channels. Experience of digital marketing and automation would be an advantage.

The candidate must have strong analytical ability, and experience of capturing, analysing and delivering recommendations based on ROI data.

The successful candidate will also have excellent facilitation skills to uncover fresh ideas and to shape campaigns.

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong strategic marketing skills
• A proven track record in the creation of B2B or B2C multi-channel marketing campaigns that have delivered commercial value.
• Excellent communication skills to lead a multidisciplinary team and agencies to deliver to campaign briefs.
• Experience of working in complex, matrix organisations would be helpful, along with evidence of managing varied stakeholder groups.
• Ability to motivate and inspire teams through change and ambiguity.
• A sound business and commercial understanding as well as being risk aware.
• Strong influencing, negotiating and facilitation skills.
• A mind-set which demonstrates a comfort with testing, learning and optimising.
• A creative and innovative eye.
• Solid writing skills
• Strong people management and coaching skills.
• An eye for emerging trends and a curious mind.

Our people need to demonstrate a defined set of core skills and behaviours. We refer to these as our global core competencies. They're integral to who we are as a firm and form the basis of our people appraisal process. We will also assess you against them within our recruitment process to benchmark your own skills and behaviours. We recommend you visit the below web page to find out more about our global core competencies and to consider how your own experiences will align against them. This will help you through the recruitment process with us.

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The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

The Deal

We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'.

Diversity

Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.