Senior Marketing Manager, Octopus Investments
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
+ Bonus + Share incentive plan
3+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Ethical Investments
Posted today
Ethical Investments
501-1000 employees
Posted today
+ Bonus + Share incentive plan
3+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Octopus Group is a B Corp whose mission is to invest in the people, ideas and industries that will help change the world.
Role
Who you are
- We operate in a highly regulated environment, so it’s important that this person can produce high-quality content within the financial promotion rules
- Customer & data obsessed and like to get under the skin of how our clients think
- Experience working across investments: financial service, tax, business relief, AIM market
- People management experience
- Bold and not afraid to test, learn, and innovate
What the job involves
- As a Senior Marketing Manager, you will own, implement, and deliver marketing plans that drive the commercial success of our Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs), Early Enterprise Scheme (EIS), and support our quoted funds
- Your focus will be on driving awareness and demand generation to increase the lifetime value of our existing clients and attract new prospects
- This role will be focused on fundraising, thematic awareness campaigns, and multi-channel full-funnel activity to support fund growth and increase market share
- The retail marketing team is made up of 6 employees, one of which you will manage. It’s a team that focuses on collaboration, skills learning and feedback to ensure it’s operating at the highest level in order to support our internal stakeholders and customers
- The overall marketing team is around 20 strong
- Shape and deliver go-to-market plans that align with business objectives, utilising storytelling marketing to bring the investment story to life, and launching new products through compelling marketing campaigns
- Maintain accurate fund & product information across all channels and use organic and paid search strategies to stay visible, aswell as conduct thorough market analysis, including competitor research and customer insights, to inform marketing strategies
- Own the product's online presence & updates, supported by Google Analytics and market insights. Maximise engagement with our digital team to support online visibility, including paid advertising, SEO, and content
- Aswell analysing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and product launches, providing regular reports and insights
- Manage, mentor and lead another team membe
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Octopus is a group of companies investing in innovative ideas from various industries. The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Real Estate, Octopus Investments, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs.
Across its financial services business, the company cares as much about the impact its investments have as it does about the returns it generates for its investors.
Since its inception, the company has grown significantly and has more than 3 million domestic customers and now actively operates in 18 countries.
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Meet the team
10 people
Jessica Bourdon-Pierre, Portfolio Manager
Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Flexible working
"Your job and your life can be organised flexibly. I do school runs and finish early to get family time and catch up in evenings on missed time. "
Company benefits
- Critical Illness Cover & Death In Service
- Health Insurance
- Pension Plan
- Performance Bonus
- Share Incentive Plan
- Hybrid Working (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)
- Childcare Vouchers
- Sick pay
- 'Take what you need' Annual leave
- £3000 Bike to Work Scheme
- Employee Discount Portal
- Professional Development & Training
- Monthly 'Drink Up'
- The Greatest Christmas Party Ever
Company values
- Be Helpful: We like people who behave like it’s always day one and who remember that without our customers there is no business.
- Be Straightforward: We like people who have opinions and who express them in a way that’s respectful and easy to understand
- Be Bold: We like people who make decisions quickly and who are OK changing their mind if it turns out there’s a better way of doing things
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Simon Rogerson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Octopus Investments for 20 years, first as Chief Executive and co-founder for 19 years and then as Executive Chairman for 1 year.
Chris Hulatt
(Co-Founder)Previously Investment Manager at Mercury Asset Management for 2 years and Non Executive Director at ClearlySo for 4 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Investments
Riean Stewart (Portfolio Talent Associate)
- 50/50 gender split across all senior leadership roles (currently 43% female / 57% male)
- 15% of managerial roles and above will be held by people from an ethnic background (Currently 8%)
- We partner with Black Young Professionals network, Investment 2020, Work180, Women in Finance, 10,000 Black Interns and more to promote D&I at Octopus and in the Investments industry
- We host events aimed at women in the financial services industry and how we can attract & support people in this space
- We host internal D&I events on how to support ethnic backgrounds in the workplace, Neurodiversity and more!
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