Marketing & Communications Business Partner

WOW Recruitment; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

35-hour week with flex leave

Job summary

Major Australian University is seeking a Marketing & Communications Business Partner to lead the faculty's annual marketing plan and drive cross-functional campaigns. The role sits in a senior faculty context with opportunities to shape strategy, review data weekly, and brief central teams of specialists in paid media, content, creative and digital.

Hybrid work in Greater Western Sydney, a 35-hour week with flex leave, and collaboration across faculties offer variety and growth.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of broad marketing experience (digital, paid, social, events etc).
• Confident and autonomous, with the presence to hold your own with senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable overseeing delivery and focusing on strategy and insight.
• Strong with data, and able to turn insights into clear recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Own the annual marketing and communications plan for your faculty, aligned to University recruitment strategy.
• Reviewing campaign and website data weekly to find gaps, trends and optimisation opportunities.
• Representing the faculty to the central marketing team and briefing paid media, content, creative and digital specialists.
• Advising faculty leadership and academics on market opportunities and growth.
• Leading University-wide recruitment campaigns with the events team.

Skills

Marketing experience

Stakeholder management

Data-driven insights

Strategic thinking

Job description

Marketing & Communications Business Partner | Major Australian University | Greater Western Sydney | Hybrid

$120K - $135K + 17% Super + Leave Loading

Imagine being the marketing lead that a whole faculty turns to for answers.

A large, fast-growing university has rebuilt its marketing team around specialist roles, and it needs a Business Partner for its biggest faculty. You’ll sit in senior faculty meetings, read the data, decide where the opportunities are and brief a team of specialists who bring it to life.

Why This Job

• Real strategic influence: you are in the room with faculty leadership shaping the plan
• A genuinely new, purposefully designed team with specialists in paid media, content, creative, digital and automation to deliver your ideas
• Variety in the week, from faculty strategy to leading University-wide campaigns like open days and expos
• Two fellow Business Partners to learn from, plus the chance to move across faculties as you grow
• A 35-hour week, with any extra time accruing as flex leave

What You’ll Be Doing

• Owning the annual marketing and communications plan for your faculty, aligned to University recruitment strategy
• Reviewing campaign and website data weekly to find gaps, trends and optimisation opportunities
• Representing the faculty to the central marketing team and briefing paid media, content, creative and digital specialists
• Advising faculty leadership and academics on market opportunities and growth
• Leading University-wide recruitment campaigns with the events team

About You

• 4+ years of broad marketing experience (e.g. digital, paid, social, events etc)
• Confident and autonomous, with the presence to hold your own with senior stakeholders
• Comfortable overseeing delivery and focusing on strategy and insight
• Strong with data, and able to turn insights into clear recommendations
• Higher education experience is welcome but not required