Marketing Executive

At Octopus, we’re entrepreneurs and we’re investors, on a mission to back the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. 

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What’s in it for you?

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to kick-start your marketing career in a supportive environment. You’ll gain hands-on experience with operational marketing tasks and contribute to creating impactful sales enablement materials. Working closely with experienced marketing managers, you’ll take ownership of smaller, process-driven activities that keep campaigns running smoothly. It’s a chance to learn, grow, and develop your skills while making a real difference to the team’s success. Your primary focus will be on driving awareness and demand generation to increase the lifetime value of our existing clients and attract new prospects

The Team

This role sits within our Retail Marketing team, reporting to a Senior Marketing Managers, and works closely with colleagues across product, sales, digital and design. You’ll play a key role in executing marketing campaigns that promote brand visibility and drive capital raise opportunity. We are looking for someone with a passion for investment marketing and a desire to grow within a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

• Update marketing content such as decks, factsheets, and teasers.
• Deliver small projects and campaigns aligned with marketing plans.
• Manage routine website updates and client retention communications.
• Support events (in-person, online, and third-party).
• Create email campaigns, newsletters, and new content within brand guidelines.
• Collaborate with central marketing and sales teams on campaigns and materials.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and maintain quality standards.
• Monitor campaign performance and keep product information accurate across channels.

We operate in a highly regulated environment so it’s important that this person can produce high quality content within the financial promotion rules. 

Ideally, you’ll have:  

✅ Around 2+ years’ experience in marketing 

✅ Experience across investments, financial services or regulated industry.  

✅ Excellent Stakeholder management   

✅ Excellent at delivering to timelines across multiple projects 

✅ Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

✅ Customer & data obsessed and like to get under the skin of how our clients think. 

✅ Bold, accountable and constantly eager to learn.  

✅ Attention to detail and producing quality output   

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. What’s the worst that can happen?  

This role will evolve as we grow and develop. So, if you are looking for a challenge in a fast paced and dynamic business, we can deliver on that.  

What we offer
💰 A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan 
✈️ Untracked holiday 
🏡 Hybrid working –  most of our people spend 3 days a week in the office
⚓ Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Wellness Cloud, Digital GP & more 
👪 Up to 6 months paid parental leave regardless of gender 
❤️ Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection 
🏥 Private medical insurance for you and your family 
🚗 Electric vehicle leasing 
🌍 The option to work overseas up to a month per year 

Our Values 
At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.   

We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.