Marketing Director, Zen Educate & Zen Locum
4+ days a week in office (Oval, London)
Education and healthcare recruitment platform
Be an early applicant
Education and healthcare recruitment platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
4+ days a week in office (Oval, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make a positive impact and bring about meaningful change within the education recruitment sector.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of hands-on leadership in Marketing, ideally with a focus on paid marketing
- Deep knowledge and passion for how to build a world class Marketing Function – we’re looking for someone keen to roll their sleeves up and get stuck in
- Growth mindset – dedicated to growing your skills as a professional and ready to step in and own the entire People function
- Passion for the education sector and commitment to the company’s success
- Strong bias to action
What the job involves
- You’ll be joining Zen in a key position leading a high performing Marketing team of 8
- Marketing is at the heart of how we are helping to transform the supply and recruitment experience for schools and generate savings in the education system, using innovative channels to find and match our schools and teachers
- The Head of Marketing role is a crucial enabler to our growth and delivery
- You’ll play a significant role in the development of the company and team and this is a great opportunity for someone looking to apply themselves for a great cause and with great responsibility and autonomy to shape the company for years to come
- Strategic Planning & Execution: Develop and lead exciting marketing strategies that align with our commercial goals, focusing on growth channels, school and educator acquisition, and brand awareness
- Growth & Channel Development: Identify, plan, and execute key growth channels for the business, evaluating and scaling opportunities in paid marketing, schools marketing, and brand marketing
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with US and UK commercial teams to translate business objectives into marketing initiatives. Collaborate with finance and commercial teams to align on budgets, projections, and key performance metrics
- Long-Term Planning: Plan marketing requirements and resource needs for the next 6 to 12 months, including technology, hiring, and budget forecasting
- Drive Key Deliverables: Drive and meet paid marketing targets, schools marketing objectives, and brand marketing goals, ensuring each aligns with overall business growth strategies
- Budget Management: Partner with the finance team to review and adjust marketing models, ensuring multi-million pound annual investment in marketing aligns with commercial projections and delivers optimal ROI
- Team Leadership: Directly manage a high-performing Marketing Team of 10 (including team leads you’d be managing), supporting their performance, growth and development
- Get your hands dirty. Like any true start-up, no two weeks will be the same and a general interest in ‘mucking in’ and just getting the job done is crucial
Application process
- Upload a CV and short introduction for why you would be a great fit on our careers page
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With UK schools under immense financial pressure, Zen Educate is providing a smarter approach to education staffing. Recruitment in schools often relies on inefficient and expensive practices. Zen Educate is focused on tackling the pain points in the industry and providing a way to ensure schools get the best teachers possible.
It provides an online platform as an alternative to recruitment agencies, which is the only online platform accredited by the UK's Department of Education, helping schools fill staffing needs quickly and cost-effectively. Schools using the platform have reportedly saved 20-30% on supply cover costs. Zen Educate aims to save the education system £14 million per year by 2024 with its smarter approach.
Zen also operates Zen Locum, a service aimed at solving similar problems for pharmacies and opticians. Offering higher rates and greater flexibility than bigger locum health services such as Tesco Pharmacy, it has already seen high uptake with over 500 new joiners a month.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% female employees
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Nice people
"I'd always wanted to be a part of a business where the culture was taken as seriously as the work. With all of our teams, as we've grown, we've had..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2024
$37m
SERIES B
Oct 2022
$24.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $82.4m
Company benefits
- Macbook and tech equipment provided 👩💻
- Regular "lunch 'n' learns" every month on a range of topics
- Investment in your professional development📈
- Regular socials🥳
- Ownership in the company🚀
- Pension scheme
- 25 days of holidays + all UK public holidays off☀️
- Central London dog-friendly office with perks like fresh fruit, bike parking, showers, and an on-site gym and café ☕️
- Life insurance
- Vitality health insurance and benefits
- Cycle to Work Scheme 🚲
- Electric Car Scheme 🚙
Company values
- Commit to the mission- We commit to our mission, our customers, and our teams. We work hard because we care more
- Choose greatness over comfort- Greatness and comfort rarely coexist. We seek greatness. We understand success takes grit & determination so we seek colleagues that possess it
- Act like an owner- We all take responsibility for driving the company forward and making it a success. If we see something that could be better, we fix it. We offer stock options to all employees
- Help each other be better- Every person at Zen is someone we can respect and learn from
- A culture of trust- We hire people who are great at their jobs and we let them get on with it while being there to lend a hand when needed
- Challenge the status quo- We take action when we can see opportunities for improvement. We are in it to make our customers' lives better and to fix a broken system
- Embrace learning over perfection- We make decisions quickly and we don't hesitate. We may disagree with a decision, but we support the team and the mission by committing to it. We embrace making unknowable mistakes and learning from them
Company HQ
Lambeth, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Slava Kremerman
(CEO)Previously a member of the Leadership Team at Nutmeg a FS startup, they also worked at Barclays and Aon.
Oren Cohen
(CCO)Ran the UK office of Optimizely, a Silicon Valley tech company. Prior to this, they worked at G-STAT and Intel.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zen Educate & Zen Locum
- At Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer, more compassionate environment for all
- We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives — just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work
- We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions, beliefs, and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; we’ve had former teachers, pilots, fundraisers, engineers, lawyers, marketers, social media experts and more join our team
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