Marketing Executive

Royal Academy Of Dance; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned cultural institution in the UK seeks a Marketing Team Member to develop innovative campaigns that attract visitors and enhance brand engagement. You will manage marketing budgets, collaborate with internal teams, and analyze campaign performance to drive results. Ideal candidates are self-starters passionate about Museums and the environment. The position offers a hybrid working model and excellent benefits, including generous holidays and a pension scheme.

Benefits

27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance

Free admission to exhibitions

Staff discounts at shops

Access to training initiatives

Membership to Sports and Social Association

Qualifications

• Proven track record in complete marketing cycle.
• Excellent communicator with strong attention to detail.
• Experience managing budgets effectively.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement paid media and organic marketing plans.
• Manage production of marketing assets.
• Provide performance reports on marketing activities.
• Represent marketing in product and project teams.
• Manage marketing budgets and resource allocation.

Skills

Audience segmentation

Creative flair

Budget management

Communication

Project management

Job description

Salary: £33,714 per annum

Department: Marketing

Location: South Kensington

Employment type: Permanent

Hours Per Week: 36

Closing date: 16/11/2025

About Us

We are a world‑class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.

Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.

We employ 1100 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.

Diversity and inclusion matter to us.

Our vision is of a future where both people and the planet thrive. Diversity is one of our core values and we strive to build a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. All new staff who join us learn about the importance of diversity and inclusion to the Museum and how to contribute to creating an inclusive environment.

We know we have more to do, but we are committed to ensuring that everyone who works at the Museum feels they can thrive and feel valued and respected.

About the role

It is an exciting time to join the marketing team at Natural History Museum.

You will be a part of the team that drives over six million people to our South Kensington site each year, delivers exciting temporary exhibition and event campaigns and supports the awareness of and engagement with the brand. As we approach our 150th anniversary in 2031, we are restoring four existing galleries, including the ever-popular Dinosaur gallery, and reopening two new galleries.

As a member of the Comms, Digital, Marketing and Publishing team you will help achieve the Museum’s mission and vision, centred around creating advocates for the planet, by creating and delivering innovative marketing campaigns that reach the widest possible audience and help to deliver commercial goals.

We are looking for a passionate self‑starter with an audience first approach to marketing. You should have a keen interest in Museums and the environment, have a naturally curious outlook, and be continually striving to learn and grow your marketing skills.

Main Responsibilities

• Work with the Marketing Manager and media agencies to develop and implement the paid media and organic plan for campaigns, on time and within budget, to deliver web and physical visitor, income and ticket sales targets.
• Manage the production of creative assets required for campaigns, working with the internal design and photography teams and external agencies, taking ownership of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Provide regular reports on the performance of marketing activity to the Marketing Manager and other key stakeholders, optimising performance and sharing lessons learned with the marketing team.
• Play an active role as the marketing representative in allocated product and project teams, pushing for decisions based on a customer experience supported by data and insight, and reporting back to colleagues on project status.
• Manage marketing budgets, ensuring the most efficient use of resource and accurate record‑keeping.

About you

• Proven track record in the complete marketing cycle from ideas generation, content creation, media planning, bought and owned media delivery, optimisation, audience segmentation, reporting and analysis.
• Understanding of an audience first approach to marketing through use of audience segmentation and targeting.
• A self‑starter with a passion for developing innovative marketing campaigns and delivering results.
• Excellent communicator with creative flair and strong attention to detail.
• Experience of managing budgets effectively.
• A keen collaborator and team player with a proven track record of managing multiple projects and working to tight deadlines.

Thriving at the Museum: the way we work

We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum’s values and forms the framework for the way we work.

Find out more here

What we offer

• 27.5 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays (full time equivalent)
• Generous defined contribution Natural History Museum Pension Scheme (employer contribution 4 - 10%)
• Season ticket, bicycle and rental loan
• Life insurance
• Free admission to our exhibitions and many other paid exhibitions at museums, galleries and institutions across London and the UK.
• Staff discount at our Museum shops and cafes
• We offer a wide variety of training initiatives and opportunities to build skills. Investing in staff development is important to us, and we are ambitious about helping staff to grow and fulfil their potential.
• Affordable membership to the Civil Service Sports Council which offers a range of benefits including an extensive list of special offers and reduced entry fees at a selection of cinema chains, theme parks, theatres, retailers and supermarkets. It also provides entry to up to 300 English Heritage sites and other national treasures. For more details, visit www.cssc.co.uk
• Membership to our Sports and Social Association (for a small fee), which includes access to our in‑house gym and clubs such as football, softball, table tennis and tennis and classes in Middle Eastern dance, yoga and Tai Chi

Hybrid working

We are working towards a vision where both people and planet thrive, and nothing gives a greater connection with this, than seeing first‑hand, the visitors, scientific research and collections that all of our work is inspired by and working side by side with the teams delivering the visitor experience and events. We also recognise the benefits and flexibility that hybrid working brings. We operate a hybrid working model that requires regular, weekly attendance for this role, with the precise pattern of days on site and worked from home to be agreed with your manager.

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Closing date: 23:59, Sunday 16 November 2025

Interviews expected w/c 24 November 2025

Please note that this role does not qualify for Museum sponsorship so the successful postholder will need to have a valid right to work in the UK at the point of offer.