Join EY in Manchester - St Peters Square as a Senior Manager, Marketing Transformation in a full-time consulting capacity. You will lead complex client engagements, define future-state marketing operating models, and act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.
Requirements
Extensive experience in marketing strategy, transformation, campaign delivery, or customer experience.
Strong background in consulting, professional services, or agency environments.
Proven ability to manage and mentor high-performing teams.
Desirable qualifications include a relevant degree, CIM accreditation, or platform certifications (e.g., Google, Adobe).
No specific minimum years of experience are explicitly stated.
Skills & Responsibilities
Stakeholder Management: Build strong senior relationships and influence strategic marketing, growth, and customer decisions.
Operating Model Design: Design and implement scalable marketing operating models, governance frameworks, and capability roadmaps.
Campaign & Experience Oversight: Provide senior oversight across the end-to-end campaign lifecycle, aligning creative, data, technology, and execution teams.
Business Development: Shape opportunities, lead proposals, and contribute to client pitches and EY Studio+ growth.
Potential transition routes: People from senior marketing strategy, agency director, or customer experience consulting roles may bring strong stakeholder management and transformation skills, alongside meeting the required professional services background.
Job description
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Senior Manager – Marketing
Key Responsibilities
Lead complex client engagements
Own and oversee the delivery of major marketing transformation programmes, ensuring alignment to client strategy, measurable outcomes, and EY quality standards.
Lead multiple workstreams across engagements, managing interdependencies, risks and senior stakeholders.
Trusted advisor to senior stakeholders
Build and maintain strong, senior relationships, shaping client agendas and influencing strategic marketing, growth and customer decisions.
Provide thought leadership on emerging marketing, CX and growth trends, positioning EY as a long‑term strategic partner.
Define future‑state marketing operating models
Design and implement scalable marketing operating models, governance frameworks and capability roadmaps that enable agility, performance and sustainable growth.
Advise on organisation design, ways of working, capability uplift and partner ecosystems.
Own strategy-to-execution outcomes
Lead the development of integrated, multi‑channel marketing strategies spanning digital, social, CRM, brand and performance marketing.
Ensure strategies translate into executable plans with clear value cases, KPIs and performance measures.
Drive campaign and experience excellence
Provide senior oversight across the end-to-end campaign lifecycle, ensuring alignment between creative, data, technology and execution teams.
Champion customer‑centric experience design and continuous optimisation across journeys and touchpoints.
Harness data, technology and analytics for growth
Guide clients on leveraging data, analytics, martech and CRM platforms to improve ROI, personalisation, acquisition and retention.
Translate insight into commercially focused recommendations and executive‑level narratives.
Lead, mentor and build future leaders
Lead and develop high‑performing, multidisciplinary teams across consulting, creative, data and technology.
Act as a role model and coach, contributing to talent development, progression and a strong EY Studio+ culture.
Shape EY Studio+ growth
Play a key role in business development, including opportunity shaping, proposal leadership and client pitches.
Contribute to market‑facing thought leadership, points of view and the evolution of EY Studio+ marketing propositions.
Ensure excellence in governance and risk
Maintain rigorous standards across project governance, commercial management, risk, and quality assurance in line with EY policies.
Required Skills & Experience
Extensive experience leading marketing strategy, marketing transformation, campaign delivery or customer experience programmes.
Strong understanding of digital marketing, CRM, martech ecosystems and advanced analytics, and how they drive business performance.
Proven ability to lead large, complex consulting or agency engagements with senior stakeholders.
Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring and growing high‑performing teams.
Exceptional executive communication, storytelling and stakeholder management skills.
Background in consulting, professional services or agency environments.
Desirable Qualifications
Degree in Marketing, Business or a related discipline.
Industry-recognised accreditation (e.g. CIM).
Platform certification (e.g. Google, Adobe).
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