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Salary: £45,000–£50,000 (DOE), plus bonus.
Benefits: Comprehensive package including 25 days holiday.
Hybrid working with up to two days per week working from home; otherwise office-based in Orpington. Some UK travel required.
Position Overview
The Marketing Project Manager will play a key role in achieving Metfriendly’s growth plans with the UK Police Family.
This individual is passionate about efficiency, optimisation, collaboration and delivery. They will have a strong track record of scheduling and managing various marketing and business development projects in a B2B environment. Experience of managing projects in both a B2B and B2C marketing environment would be an advantage.
They will be highly organised, a strong communicator, have a keen eye for detail and be able to manage many individual tasks alongside tracking several marketing and business development workstreams simultaneously.
The choices you make in your career matter. In this role, you will do interesting work in an important field, for people who give a lot to UK society.
Attributes
There is a lot to think about when applying for a new job, so we try to provide a lot of detail for candidates in our job descriptions. At Metfriendly, we don’t expect you to meet each of the listed requirements perfectly to be considered for any of our roles – if you think you have much of what we need, and you would enjoy being part of a purpose-led organisation, you should apply and have an initial conversation with us.

Key Responsibilities

• End to end management of business development and marketing projects and initiatives
• Stakeholder management - build and maintain relationships with key project sponsors and business development & marketing leadership so you can effectively scope out projects, agree timelines and prioritise resources
• Coordinate cross-functional teams (internal and agency) to ensure their commitment in your projects and their timely responses to avoid delays and minimise risks
• Ensure marketing & business development projects are operating efficiently by reviewing performance metrics and suggest areas for improvement
• Provide support to other team members and cover for them when they are unavailable to ensure the project management is operating optimally
• Understand and solve complex problems that stretch over multiple parts of the business, identifying dependencies, and contingency planning
• Take a pro-active role in continually improving the marketing project management for the tracking and reporting of tasks, initiatives and projects
• Support the director and leadership with research data gathering and the preparation of documentation and reports
• Support the director and leadership with events planning including the measurement of KPIs arising from the events
• Conduct reviews to identify additional opportunities to improve business performance

Person Specification

Experience

• Minimum 3 years in a project management role in a marketing or business development, preferably in a B2B environment
• A solution orientated individual with a “can do” attitude. You’re not afraid to assume responsibility and solve problems
• Experience in process optimisation, innovation, efficiency realisation programs is desirable
• Possess critical thinking; understands the company vision and how the business development and marketing department supports that
• The successful candidate will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to effectively lead project teams
• Excellent influencing skills and ability to establish relationships and engage individuals

• You will be adept at comprehending and translating business needs

• Highly collaborative - skilled at bringing people together, highly organised, and has leadership level communication.

• Comfortable in a high growth, entrepreneurial, and changeable environment

• Experience in financial services is advantageous but not essential.

• End to end management of business development and marketing projects and initiatives
• Stakeholder management - build and maintain relationships with key project sponsors and business development & marketing leadership so you can effectively scope out projects, agree timelines and prioritise resources
• Coordinate cross-functional teams (internal and agency) to ensure their commitment in your projects and their timely responses to avoid delays and minimise risks
• Ensure marketing & business development projects are operating efficiently by reviewing performance metrics and suggest areas for improvement
• Provide support to other team members and cover for them when they are unavailable to ensure the project management is operating optimally
• Understand and solve complex problems that stretch over multiple parts of the business, identifying dependencies, and contingency planning
• Take a pro-active role in continually improving the marketing project management for the tracking and reporting of tasks, initiatives and projects
• Support the director and leadership with research data gathering and the preparation of documentation and reports
• Support the director and leadership with events planning including the measurement of KPIs arising from the events
• Conduct reviews to identify additional opportunities to improve business performanc