Performance Marketing Manager – Talent Acquisition

SumUp Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial solutions provider based in London is looking for a Performance Marketing Manager to drive their talent acquisition strategy. In this role, you will integrate marketing efforts to enhance the candidate journey, implement data-driven decision-making, and collaborate across teams to improve hiring outcomes. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in performance marketing and a proven track record in data optimization strategies.

Benefits

Generous time off: 28 days paid leave plus bank holidays

Vitality health cover, including optical and dental

Retirement scheme with matching contributions

Life insurance covering 2x salary

1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in performance marketing, growth, or data-driven recruitment.
• Hands-on experience with LinkedIn, Google, Meta, and job board campaigns.
• Experience tracking and optimizing performance using GTM, GA4, UTMs, and ATS analytics.

Responsibilities

• Transform candidate discovery and application journey by integrating ads and ATS data.
• Design and implement tracking systems connecting ad spend to hiring outcomes.
• Provide actionable insights through dashboards visualizing campaign performance.

Skills

Performance marketing

Growth strategies

Data-driven recruitment

Campaign optimization

Stakeholder alignment

Tools

LinkedIn

Google

Meta

GTM

GA4

Job description

bPerformance Marketing Manager – Talent Acquisition

bLondon, England, United Kingdom · General Marketing

About SumUp: We believe in the everyday hero — those who have the courage to follow their passion and the determination to realize their dreams. Small business owners are at the heart of all we do. We’re creating powerful, easy‑to‑use financial solutions that help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and team‑first attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure small business owners can be successful doing what they love.

You’ll be part of our bGlobal Talent Acquisition team, the engine behind how we attract, convert, and hire great talent at SumUp. Our team blends strategy, storytelling, and data to help every candidate experience feel human, fast, and fair. As a bPerformance Marketing Manager for Talent Acquisition, you’ll be the first in a newly created role designed to connect badvertising performance, data analytics, and candidate experience into one seamless funnel. You’ll play a key role in transforming how we hire at scale — improving quality, speed, and efficiency across our bField Sales EU hiring, one of SumUp’s highest‑impact growth areas.

Your work will shape how thousands of future SumUppers find and join us — turning fragmented recruitment marketing efforts into an integrated, insight‑driven system. You’ll collaborate with bPerformance Marketing, bWeb/CMS, bTA Analytics, and bEmployer Branding teams to build a smarter, data‑backed acquisition engine that ensures every campaign directly contributes to hiring success. This is a bhigh‑impact, bhigh‑autonomy role: you’ll be the architect of a new performance discipline within TA — a builder, problem‑solver, and thought partner for both People and Marketing.

🚀 What You’ll Do

• Funnel Integration & Candidate Journey: Transform how candidates discover and join SumUp by integrating ads, the careers site, and ATS data into a single, insight‑led journey that optimises for quality hires rather than impressions or clicks. Eliminate conversion bottlenecks across the candidate funnel by building, testing, and refining landing experiences that reduce drop‑off and ensure candidates move seamlessly from awareness to application.
• Performance Measurement & Decision Intelligence: Enable smarter media investment decisions by designing and implementing tracking and attribution systems that connect ad spend directly to hiring outcomes and cost‑per‑hire efficiency.
• Empower Talent Acquisition and Marketing teams with actionable insights through unified dashboards that visualise campaign performance, conversion health, and hiring velocity — enabling data‑led decisions at speed.
• Continuously optimise ROI by reallocating budgets weekly toward channels proven to drive high‑quality candidate pipelines, ensuring every euro spent delivers measurable hiring impact.
• Scalability & Operational Excellence: Establish a repeatable performance marketing framework — including playbooks, benchmarks, and standard operating procedures — to scale best practices across markets and hiring segments.

🙌 You’ll Be Great for This Role If

• You have b5+ years of experience in performance marketing, growth, or data‑driven recruitment.
• You’re hands‑on with bLinkedIn, bGoogle, bMeta, and job board campaigns.
• You know how to track and optimise performance using bGTM, bGA4, bUTMs, and ATS analytics.
• You’ve built or improved bconversion funnels or landing pages through testing and iteration.
• You communicate clearly, align cross‑functional stakeholders, and enjoy a fast‑moving, experimental environment.
• You’re curious, analytical, and balance strategic thinking with hands‑on delivery.

💙 Why You Should Join SumUp (London)

🌎 Opportunity to work with a truly global, multicultural team from our bcentral Covent Garden office, wrapped in historic charm and modern flair. This involves an office‑first setup. 🌈 Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: be part of a workplace that values and promotes diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone’s perspectives are respected and embraced. 🚀 Enrolment onto our bVSOP program: own a stake in SumUp’s future success. 🏖 bGenerous time off: 28 days of paid leave, plus bank holidays and special leaves. 🏥 bHealth matters: Vitality health cover, including optical and dental. 🚗 bLife made easier: salary‑sacrifice commuter benefits via Gogeta. 💼 bFinancial security: retirement scheme (SumUp matches 7% when you contribute 5%). 🛡 bPeace of mind: life insurance from MetLife for 2× your salary. 🌴 bBreak4me: 1‑month sabbatical after 3 years of service. 🔗 bReferral Bonus: earn rewards by bringing talented people to SumUp.

At SumUp, we’re on a mission to empower small businesses around the world with simple, affordable tools to help them start, run, and grow. More than 4 million merchants across 36 markets trust us as their financial partner — and we’re just getting started.

We’re a global team of 3,000+ people from over 90 nationalities, united by curiosity, collaboration, and care. Our core values and culture shape everything we do, fostering inclusion, learning, and belonging.

SumUp is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, committed to building a safe, respectful, and diverse workplace where everyone can thrive.

👉 Explore more about our culture on our careers site, or follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

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