Senior Marketing Manager – Skiddle, Manchester

Skiddle was born in 2001 as a what’s on guide and began selling tickets in 2006 and is now one of the UK’s most loved ticketing services selling tickets for tens of thousands of events throughout the UK, from independent club nights through to 60,000 capacity festivals. Over this period, we have managed to carve a successful business model by providing promoters and customers across the UK with a high-quality ticketing service. Skiddle currently sells tickets for the likes of The Warehouse Project, Creamfields,Digbeth Dining Club and Live Nation, and hundreds of independent venues andpromoters across the country.

Role Summary:

Reporting to ourHead of Marketing, this is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced MarketingManager to join a thriving ticketing business that offers an excellentwork-life balance and clear career progression opportunities. The role involves reviewing andreflecting on the successes of campaigns to the Head of Marketing. Working withBusiness Development Managers to establish key growth opportunities withAccounts and Content. You will be responsible for delivering marketing and communications strategies aimed at Skiddles target market and for collaborating across the business to support the completion ofmarketing tasks.

The role of Senior Marketing Manager involves planning and developing comprehensive and strategic marketing programs, including end to end campaign orchestration. Working autonomously on marketing collateral, coordinating events, tracking existing marketing campaigns and conducting market research studies.

The successfulcandidate for this role will thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment,will uphold our core values throughauthenticity and have a genuine interest in the events industry. We are looking for atalented results-oriented, career-drivenindividual who is enthusiastic and who will deliver

Key Responsibilities:

• Executing end-to-end wider marketing campaigns such as New Year’s Eve, Festivals and Freshers including concept creation to realisation
• Delivering multi-channel marketing solutions across website,email, press, social media and industry events.
• Implementing strategic in-person event plans supporting growth opportunities, surrounding larger marketing campaigns
• Orchestrating digital content strategies across all onlineplatforms, and utilising paid social programmes such as Google AdWords andFacebook Ads Manager to support wider marketing campaigns, in addition tosocial planning tools.
• Creating new business and partnerships.
• Developing a B2B strategy across our Promotion Centre andLinkedIn profiles to convey our brand voice, engage with promoters and initiatediscussions around relevant topics in the industry.
• Management of the marketing team
• Managing a marketing budget
• Measuring the results of marketing activity to inform futuremarketing campaigns
• Management of branded merchandise / stock
• Achieving personal and team KPI’s
• Upholding Skiddle’s core values through authenticity

Person Specification:

• Minimum 3 years marketing and communicationsexperience (a background in the music industry is highly advantageous)
• Highly interpersonal with excellent relationship building skills
• Experience of managing company budgets and stocklevels
• An excellent understanding and ability for organising eventsand using InDesign and Photoshop
• Knowledge of current trends surrounding social media trends, SEO, video editing, copywriting, rapport building and networking
• Action oriented and competent at using all platformsavailable
• Building and developing B2B relationships
• Ability to create and deliver presentations independently whilst assessing and adhering to company guidelines and objectives
• Excellent level of skill when communicating with internal andexternal stakeholders Leadership Skills
• Strong Oral and Written Communication Skills
• Motivational Skills
• Employee Training Experience
• Organised and able to manage own workload.
• Proficient with MS Office

What can Skiddle offer:

• Friendly workingenvironment
• Attending eventsalongside our vibrant team.
• Cycle to work scheme/ Tech scheme
• Company pension
• Health insurance provided by Vitality
• Future career progression
• 33 days holiday(including bank holidays) – Increased Holiday entitlement after 1 year service