Marketing Manager

Are you a high reaching marketing professional ready to lead and inspire?
Do you have the vision to drive marketing strategies able to deliver innovative, tailored insurance solutions, in a dynamic, fast-paced environment?
Come and join our Marketing team as a Marketing Manager here at Markel
What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realise our potential, we can help others reach theirs.
Join us and play your part in something special!

The opportunity:

It’s an exciting time to join Markel as our business grows, and we are looking for a versatile Marketing Manager to join our Marketing team, (3 days in the office / 2 days working from home). The role can be based at either our London, Leeds or Manchester office but will involve occasional travel as required.

The UK Marketing team is a high-performing, creative team dedicated to delivering innovative, tailored insurance solutions for over 1 million UK customers – ranging from tech providers to charities. As part of our ambitious growth strategy, we’re expanding to unlock exciting new opportunities. Now, we need an experienced and enthusiastic Marketing Manager to join our UK team. This is a unique opportunity to help create and drive integrated, always-on marketing campaigns across all delivery channels, making a significant impact on the company's growth and success.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaboration: You will work closely with the Channel Marketing Manager to implement the UK Broker marketing strategy aligned to business objectives

• Expertise: You will design, develop, and implement creative marketing campaigns to promote Markel’s products, services and brand through a full range of promotional activities, including PR, advertising, events, content, website, social media and e-marketing

  • Includes lead generation, retention, and attrition campaigns

  • Project management of campaigns from creation to execution

  • Creative ideas and guidance for marketing collateral

• Empowerment: You will work with the broader Marketing Services team and external partners to ensure the successful delivery of all campaign activation elements

• Budget Management: You will handle day-to-day marketing budget management of owned projects

• Measure & report: You will track performance through monthly reporting and analysis, providing valuable insights to senior leadership

• Ensure compliance: You will manage marketing activities in line with regulatory requirements

Our must haves:

• 4+ years of marketing experience, ideally with a proven record of delivering multi-channel marketing activity

• Experience in implementing Marketing campaigns and extensive partner engagement skills

• Ability to manage end to end marketing activity

• Experience of working with third party agencies and suppliers to deliver high-quality Marketing collateral

• Strong project management, with the ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines and work on a number of projects at once

• Excellent verbal communication and presentation skills

• Marketing qualification (desirable)

Who we are:

Markel Corporation (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What’s in it for you:

• A great starting salary plus 15% annual bonus & strong benefits package…

• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave

• Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer

• There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we can provide the support needed to do just that!

Are you ready to play your part?

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at [email protected] or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.

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