Email Marketing Manager

Vanguard; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services organization based in Manchester is seeking an experienced Email Marketing Manager to lead their email marketing operations. You will oversee a team, manage marketing automation campaigns, and ensure compliance with regulations. Ideal candidates will have at least five years of experience and a relevant degree. This role offers a hybrid working model and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years related work experience in email marketing.
• Experience with managing a team and marketing automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team responsible for email marketing operations.
• Plan and deliver email marketing programme in Europe.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations and brand guidelines.

Skills

Email marketing operations

Marketing automation

Team management

Campaign performance analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Undergraduate degree in Marketing or equivalent experience

Tools

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Job description

Email Marketing Manager

Vanguard Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Hybrid Permanent Position

Job Description Summary

As Email Marketing Manager, you will manage a team responsible for the delivery of email marketing operations, to reach, engage, convert, and build loyalty with Vanguard's retail (D2C, B2D2C) and professional (B2B) investor audiences across Europe. Reporting into the Head of Digital Marketing, Europe, you will lead a team of two email marketing specialists, working closely with internal stakeholders from across Marketing, Sales, Data, UX design, and our external agency partners. You will be responsible for advising, governing, executing, and analysing all aspects of our marketing automation and email programme. With greater industry focus on first‑party data, you will help us achieve our objectives through the application of continually evolving digital technologies, ensuring we deliver against our client experience, digital engagement and wider marketing goals.

Core Responsibilities

• Work closely with a range of stakeholders from across our B2B and D2C businesses to plan and deliver Vanguard's email marketing programme in Europe, from direct action marketing communications, trigger‑based journey automations to transactional service messages.
• Ensure that all email communication campaigns adhere to local regulation, best practice, and brand guidelines.
• Develop, implement, and manage marketing automation campaigns and journeys aligned with our marketing and business objectives.
• Manage a team of two email marketing specialists, ensuring their ongoing development.
• Oversee the governance and segmentation of marketing data (PII), ensuring that it is accurate and adheres to privacy and data management policies.
• Manage the design, build, test and dispatch of HTML email campaigns, automations, and journeys via Salesforce Marketing Cloud, to build engagement, drive specific action, or react to behavioural information.
• Ensure that all emails are tested and render effectively across email clients.
• Understand and evaluate campaign metrics. Distribute email campaign performance insights to the marketing team.
• Create recommendations to improve campaign performance and process improvements.
• Manage marketing automation efforts and processes, proactively researching and implementing the latest best practices, strategies, and industry standards.
• Plan and perform A/B testing, to define and execute enhancements to productivity, conversion rates, program/campaign ROI, and sales growth.
• Engage with Product Owners to troubleshoot and remedy any issues arising with the technology stack.
• Remain up‑to‑date with industry trends, tools and technologies to ensure that Vanguard's email marketing programme is effective and competitive.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years related work experience.
• Undergraduate degree in Marketing or equivalent experience required.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard's continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: "Do the right thing." We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard's core purpose through our values. When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose: to take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in‑person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission‑driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long‑term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

Additional Information

We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require support or adjustments to the recruitment process, our Adjustment Concierge Service is here to help. Please feel free to contact us at [e-mail] to discuss how we can support you.

This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organizations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.