Marketing Communication Executive

Join us as a Marketing Communication Executive at Barclays, where you'll support the planning, development, and delivery of integrated, customer focussed marketing campaigns across our range of banking products. Working closely with our team of Communications Managers, agencies and stakeholders, you’ll play a key role in co-ordinating multi-channel activity from briefing through to campaign launch, ensuring campaigns are delivered on time, within budget and in line with brand legal, and regulatory requirements.

You’ll support campaign performance monitoring, and work with the team to identify opportunities to improve future activity through insights and learning. The successful candidate can manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, maintaining solid attention to detail across projects. You will require excellent organisational skills, stakeholder management, and the ability to keep campaigns on track from briefing through to execution. 

To be successful as a Marketing Communication Executive, you must have the following essential skills:

• Previous experience in Marketing and Communications, with a good understanding of campaign delivery and stakeholder management.
• Experience working across digital marketing channels, such as email, web, paid media, social media, or mobile apps.
• Knowledge of campaign planning and execution, including coordinating activity from briefing through to delivery.
• Good attention to detail, with experience ensuring all communications adhere to brand and regulatory guidelines.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, creative teams, and external agencies.
• Ability to review and assess creative campaign assets, to ensure alignment with campaign objectives, customer outcomes and brand standards.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Understanding of the regulatory environment and the importance of ensuring marketing communications comply with relevant policies, procedures, and governance requirements.
• Experience using Workfront to support campaign planning, tracking, and delivery.
• Experience supporting multi-channel marketing campaigns across customer acquisition, engagement or retention activity.
• Knowledge of marketing communications, CRM or lifecycle marketing.
• Understanding of campaign performance, reporting and optimisation. 

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the role:

To develop and implement marketing strategies to promote brand, products, and services across various markets

Accountabilities:

• Development and implementation of marketing strategies and delivery that aligns with the banks business objectives and are informed by market research, customer needs and competitive landscape.
• Collaboration with product development, sales, and other departments to align marketing efforts with overall business objectives, to achieve specific, well defined outcomes, as needed.
• Development of compelling and targeted content for various marketing channels, including print, media and related collateral, if needed.
• Analysis of data to make informed decisions and optimize marketing strategies, use of data analytics tools to measure and report on the performance of marketing campaigns.
• Management of the marketing budget, allocating resources to maximise ROI.
• Defines marketing vision, sets goals, clarifies objectives and works across organisations to achieve specific, well defined outcomes.

Analyst Expectations:

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.