Marketing Manager, Octopus Investments
+ Bonus + Share incentive plan
3+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
Ethical Investments
Open for applications
Ethical Investments
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Bonus + Share incentive plan
3+ days a week in office (Holborn, London)
1001+ 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
- To excel in this role, you need to have a can-do attitude, great attention to detail, and excellent stakeholder management
- We are looking for candidates with financial services experience, a good understanding of financial markets and someone who is willing to learn
- Worked with investments, financial services or a regulated industry
- Attention to detail and producing quality output
- Excellent Stakeholder management
- Excellent at delivering to timelines across multiple projects
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Customer & data obsessed and like to get under the skin of how our clients think
- Bold and not afraid to test and learn and innovate
What the job involves
- As a Marketing Manager, this role supports the delivery of marketing plans that drive our commercial success for our specialist tax investments and funds
- We are leaders in this space and want to continue growing our market share through our marketing efforts. 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 support end-to-end execution of marketing campaigns, including digital marketing, media buying, content creation, channel strategy, events, and partnerships
- This role will report to the Senior Marketing Manager
- Responsible for small & medium multi-channel campaigns and fundraising initiatives, as well as supporting the Senior Marketing Manager on large-scale initiatives. Monitoring and reporting on the effectiveness of campaigns and activities, providing regular reports and insights
- Be a key marketing contact and foster good relationships with the product, sales & investment teams, liaising with these teams and providing marketing support and preparing them with the tools they require (content, presentations, reports, factsheets)
- Developing new literature and content in line with brand guidelines, maintaining accurate fund/product information across all channels and using organic, and paid search strategies to stay visible
- Conducting thorough market analysis, including competitor research and customer insights, to inform marketing strategies
- To develop initiatives to drive customer education and engagement, including webinars and workshops
- Accountable for online awareness & updates, supported by Google Analytics and market insights. Work closely with the digital team to support online visibility, including paid advertising, SEO, and content
- We operate in a highly regulated environment so it’s important that this person can produce high quality content within the financial promotion rules
- This role will evolve as we grow and develop. So, if you are looking for a challenge in a fast paced and dynamic business, we can deliver on that
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.
In their financial services business, they care as much about the impact their investments have, as they do about the returns that they generate for their investors.
Since its inception, the company has grown significantly and has more than 3 million domestic customers and now actively operates in 6 countries.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
43% female employees
26% employee growth in 12 months
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
(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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