Marketing Executive

Marketing Executive

“Bring our brand to life through insight and engaging content.”

At Castle Trust Bank, we pride ourselves in being a fintech challenger bank, providing specialist property mortgages, retail finance lending and savings accounts to a variety of customers. 

This role is based in Basingstoke on a hybrid capacity 3 days a week in the office and 2 days at home.

The role and what you’ll lead and deliver:

We are looking for a creative and commercially minded Marketing Executive to support the growth of our Savings, Property and Retail Finance business units.

Supporting the Head of Marketing and the Senior Digital Marketing Executive, you will play a key role in planning and delivering multi-channel campaigns, creating engaging content and driving brand awareness. This is a hands-on role with real impact, offering exposure across digital marketing, content creation, campaign analytics and stakeholder collaboration.

You’ll have the opportunity to shape and drive marketing activity, identify new opportunities and help deliver the continued success of a fast-growing challenger bank.

The successful candidate will have a broad range of general Marketing skills and experience, with a particular focus on CRM and email platforms, and a desire to thrive in a financial services environment.

Campaigns & Email Marketing

• Develop, manage and deliver engaging email campaigns aligned to Financial Promotion requirements
• Act as subject matter expert for CRM/email platforms (e.g. Salesforce Marketing Cloud)
• Analyse campaign performance and make data-driven recommendations for improvement

Content & Digital Marketing

• Create compelling content for websites, email and social media channels
• Maintain and update Castle Trust Bank and Omni websites and LinkedIn presence
• Monitor digital performance using tools such as Google Analytics, SEMrush and Hotjar

Brand, Communications & Collateral

• Manage updates to marketing materials and communications (online and offline)
• Develop new collateral to support product launches and campaigns
• Support consistent and engaging brand messaging across all channels
• Support internal departments with brand-focussed materials and activities

Insight & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor competitor activity and market trends
• Provide insight and recommendations to support business growth
• Build strong understanding of customer needs and distribution channels

Stakeholder & Project Management

• Collaborate closely with internal teams and external agencies
• Support delivery of marketing initiatives and strategic projects
• Coordinate events such as roadshows, exhibitions and social events

Creative & Design

• Create visual content including graphics and video assets
• Use tools such as Canva and Adobe Creative Suite
• Manage overflow design work with external agencies

What you’ll bring:

We are looking for a strong communicator with the ability to influence and adapt messaging to different audiences.  You will be highly organised with strong planning and prioritisation skills, proactive, commercially aware, driven by insight and results, and willing to take ownership of delivery.

In addition, you will have:

Essential

• Broad marketing experience across digital, content and campaign delivery
• Strong experience managing and delivering email campaigns via CRM tools (e.g. Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, Mailchimp)

• Experience in website management and performance tracking
• Strong copywriting skills for a range of audiences and channels
• Proficiency in Canva and/or Adobe tools (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)
• Experience using Google Analytics and other marketing tools
• Ability to leverage AI tools to support content creation and campaign optimisation
• GCSEs (Grade A–C) or A Levels (or equivalent) in English and Maths

Desirable

• Experience in financial services, ideally within savings, lending or retail finance
• Marketing degree or professional qualification
• CRM or Adobe-related certifications
• Experience managing business social media accounts

Why join Castle Trust Bank?

• Competitive salary
• Performance bonus (based on individual and company performance)
• Generous contributory pension through Hargreaves Lansdown
• Life Assurance
• 25 days’ holiday + option to buy/sell 5 days
• Additional paid volunteering day
• Private healthcare through Equipsme (includes cash back for Dental and Optical treatment)
• Free access to BHSF Rise EAP to support colleague health and wellbeing
• Gym discounts
• Season ticket travel loans (if applicable)
• A supportive, inclusive culture where your work has real impact

Caught your attention? If so, we’d love to talk to you and tell you more about what it’s like to work at Castle Trust Bank - The Place To Work!

Castle Trust Bank is an equal opportunity employer where we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our colleagues to thrive. We welcome applications from all and will not discriminate against any status/characteristic protected by law and will always base our decisions on merit.

We are proud to support people with disabilities and are committed to be a Disability Confident employer. If you are a person with a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the role you will be offered an interview. Should you require any reasonable adjustment to support you in your application for one of our opportunities, please contact [email protected]

https://www.castletrust.co.uk/careers/who-we-are