Marketing Planning Manager (16 Months FTC)

RVU Co UK; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the FinTech industry is seeking a Marketing Planning Manager for a 16-month fixed-term contract in Cardiff. The role involves managing marketing projects, budget reporting, and cross-functional coordination. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills and a good understanding of digital marketing channels, along with excellent communication abilities. This position offers a hybrid working model and a range of benefits including a discretionary bonus, pension contributions, and professional development support.

Benefits

10% discretionary yearly bonus

Hybrid working approach

Employer matching pension contributions

£300 Work from Home budget

25 days holiday increasing to 30

Private medical cover

Free gym access

Learning and training budget

Employee discounts programme

Regular team events

Qualifications

• Experience managing budget reporting processes within Marketing teams.
• Experience in project management within Marketing.
• Excellent Excel and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Managing budget reporting and marketing planning processes.
• Overseeing and coordinating key marketing projects.
• Developing a rolling 12-month marketing plan.

Skills

Budget reporting

Project management

Excel skills

Digital marketing

Communication

Job description

Marketing Planning Manager (16 Months FTC)

Department: Marketing

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Cardiff

Description

Hybrid: 2 days per week in-office

In 2002, we became the first insurance comparison site. Our purpose? To make the process of sorting your insurance, utilities or personal finances as easy as possible.
We’re part of RVU. A group of online brands that include Uswitch, Tempcover and money.co.uk. As a group, we use our shared knowledge to empower people, and help them make decisions confidently across a range of household services.

Confused.com is at the cutting edge of the FinTech industry, so we’re always looking for extraordinary talent. If you love what you do, get in touch today!

About the role:

We’re looking for a Marketing Planning Manager to join us on a fixed term contract here at Confused.com, working as a key part of the Confused.com marketing team. As Marketing Planning manager, you'll be responsible for driving projects and developments forward in Confused.com. In this role you’ll be working closely with a wide range of stakeholders across all areas of marketing and the wider business and implementing cross functional paths where appropriate.

You’ll also be overseeing and strategically influencing the delivery of a varied mix of projects and developments, by organising and co-ordinating resources, engaging stakeholders, managing timelines and relationships to ensure on-time delivery.

Projects and developments will range from strategically important and high-value initiatives through to smaller, time-critical marketing changes to deliver incremental improvements for the marketing team and wider business.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing budget reporting
• Managing the marketing planning process that feeds budgets and forecasts
• Managing key projects that require cross team co-ordination
• Developing and coordinating a rolling 12-month marketing plan of key initiatives which provides visibility of key campaigns and strategic developments
• Ensuring that activity is flighted in the most effective way throughout the year.
• Creating a briefing process for marketing campaigns between product and marketing teams
• Acting as Marketing lead for supporting product initiatives
• Coordinating key strategic marketing projects, liaising between multiple stakeholders and ensuring delivery within set timescales
• Owning relationships with our benchmarking agency, maximising the relationship and ensuring key insights are actioned throughout the business.

What we're looking for

Essentials:

• Experience of managing budget reporting processes within Marketing teams
• Experience of project management within Marketing team
• Excellent excel and presentation skills
• Good understanding of digital marketing channels
• A flexible and dynamic problem solver who can create solutions and manage workplace differences.
• An effective communicator who is able to positively influence stakeholders at all levels.

Our commitment to you:
At RVU, we are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.

What we offer

We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to (some benefits are pro-rated due to the nature of the role being a FTC):

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
• Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
• A one-off £300 “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover , dental plans and employee assistance programme
• Free gym access
• Employee discounts programme
• A healthy learning and training budget to support your development
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected

*As a tech company who strives to get better every day, we use Metaview during the interview processes for note taking purposes. This records and transcribes interviews so the interviewer can fully focus on your conversation, rather than writing. This has no bearing on the assessment of you as a candidate and you can opt out at any time. Just let us know.