Marketing Manager – Faculty

The University of Southampton is a leading research-intensive University, a founding member of the prestigious Russell Group, and one of the top 100 universities worldwide. We deliver excellent educational experience and world-leading research, and we are known for successfully commercialising our research through enterprise.

This role sits within our Global Recruitment Admissions and Marketing Directorate, which is responsible for nurturing leads, building relationships and recruiting high quality students from around the world to meet our undergraduate and postgraduate student number plans.

We have an exciting opportunity available to join our faculty marketing team on a full-time permanent basis. The faculty marketing team play a crucial role in the delivery of student number plans for the university, they foster strong relationships across the institution to enable strategic join up and deliver a wide range of activities which have real impact.  In this role you will support faculty objectives by managing the implementation of the faculty marketing plan and ensuring the strategic alignment of data and insight with the positioning and proposition of our offering. You will collaborate with a wide range of academic and marketing stakeholders to bring the plan to life, working across the whole recruitment journey from awareness and promotion to conversation activities, you will enjoy scope to innovate and make a significant and measurable impact. Relationship building and collaboration are key elements of the role.

You will work across the full marketing mix including product, positioning, proposition and messaging, as well as ensuring a feedback loop into faculty to share campaign reports and where appropriate, deliver updates on sector insights and audience trends. This post holder will support academic colleagues to deliver ambitious growth plans, and work with the faculty to protect and grow market share and respond to changes in the wider recruitment environment.

Our faculty marketing managers are each aligned with a particular area of the university which may be subject to change as the needs of the university and the team evolve, for the foreseeable future this post will be aligned with The University of Southampton Business School (USBS), which you can learn more about below.

Please apply by uploading your CV and a cover letter detailing how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role.

If you would like an informal and confidential conversation about the role, please reach out to s.crocombe@soton.ac.uk with your availability.

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