Marketing Campaigns Manager

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is recruiting for a Senior Marketing Campaigns Manager to be part of our supportive and high-performing marketing team. You will be helping to shape communications across DWP owned channels and across paid communications., We are a close-knit marketing team that collaborates with the press, external affairs, visits and internal comms teams, as well as private offices, policy and frontline colleagues., As a Senior Marketing Campaigns Manager, you will:

• Manage the development of innovative, impactful paid and low/no cost communications strategies, based on data, evidence and audience insight. Use strategic thinking to translate business objectives into actionable marketing plans, driving clarity from ambiguity.
• Develop a strong understanding of our audiences and how to deliver behaviour change. Be an audience champion, act as the voice of the customer, and serve as a subject matter expert, building strong relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Develop and deliver end-to-end multi-channel paid media campaigns, with sizeable budgets, as well as low/no cost marketing activity.
• Manage and build positive relationships with external agencies. This includes overseeing media planning and buying and ensuring that our work is cost effective, high quality and represents good value for the taxpayer.
• Manage the development of messaging and creative content across campaigns, delivering through both in-house and agency creative teams for a full range of channels.
• Prioritise campaign evaluation, including consistent optimisation and improvements to delivery.
• Proactively seek opportunities for innovation, continuous challenge and improvement, and make recommendations to senior leaders.
• Deliver effective team leadership, line management and coaching; helping shape culture by championing our team vision, driving positive ways of working and inclusivity, whilst pushing forward continuous development of colleagues.
  
  To succeed in the role, you will have creative campaigns experience, the ability to think strategically, excellent interpersonal skills, and an aptitude for digesting complex information and explaining it in plain English.