Email & SMS Marketing Executive

EMAIL & SMS MARKETING EXECUTIVE Salary: £24,550 - £28,000 per annum Department: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office). Employment type: Permanent Working hours: Full time 35 hours per week Closing date: Sunday 5 March 23:55 This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications are received or once a suitable candidate is found At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we we’re looking for someone talented, someone who shares our vision, someone like you. We are looking for someone with an enthusiasm for all things email marketing to join Cancer Research UK as the Email & SMS Marketing Executive. This is an exciting role that supports marketing teams from across the charity with journey planning, email optimisation and delivery. This role also supports with post campaign reporting and analysis to gather learnings to improve future campaigns.
A key part of the role is sending emails and SMS through Adobe Campaign Manager. You will have the opportunity to learn from the Senior Executives in the team on email and SMS best practice, and optimisation. Key Responsibilities:

• Build and send email and SMS campaigns through Adobe Campaign
• Manage the teams shared mailbox, ensuring that all emails are responded to promptly
• Work with marketing teams to plan and deliver email and SMS marketing campaign plans on time
• Support the Email & SMS Marketing Senior Executives with larger email optimisation and delivery projects
• Work collaboratively with other Digital Marketing teams, such as Website and content teams to ensure the whole supporter journey is optimised
• Gather learnings of digital marketing trends or changes and work to implement these at Cancer Research UK
• Support on reporting and post-campaign analysis, sharing recommendations on how to improve future campaign

Key Technical Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Behaviours: Essential

• Have an interest and enthusiasm to continue learning about email and SMS marketing
• Able to use Microsoft Office packages including Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Ability to prioritise, manage conflicting deadlines, work well under pressure, and manage multiple tasks deadlines
• Attention to detail
• The ability to build strong working relationships and collaborate effectively

Desirable

• Experience of sending emails through an Email Marketing Platform
• Understanding of audience segmentation, personalization and UX principles and experience of interpreting results
• Experience of writing email content

Click below to see the full candidate pack: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:92fcdb98-8149-4f6c-a0e4-528aeb127ef9 What will I gain? Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that’s impressive. In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well. Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more. We don’t forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture. Our work – from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team. How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively. For more information on this career opportunity please visit our website or contact us at recruitment@cancer.org.uk. . There’s a place for everyone at Cancer Research UK. Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented, and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to beat cancer sooner. If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you. We don’t expect everyone to meet all of the criteria listed. We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen by emailing us at recruitment@cancer.org.uk. Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.