Marketing Technical & Development Manager

Marketing Technical & Development Manager needed ASAP for a number one utility company.

Salary: £50,000 plus 10% Bonus

Hours: Permanent, Full Time

Location: Glasgow City

The Marketing Technical and Development Manager is critical to the success of our marketing function as we go through a time of significant change and transformation. This role will be key in identifying problems and areas for improvement, and then bringing together stakeholders across marketing, IT and senior management to implement solutions either by using our current IT capability, by building a solution or by sourcing a solution from the market.

Reporting to the Head of Performance and Quality in Marketing Operations you'll be a subject matter expert. You'll be responsible for specifying and managing the implementation of key technical capability change and continuous improvement across the whole of marketing. In particular you'll be involved in the technical delivery of Marketing Work Flow tools, Digital Asset Management, Sharepoint Development plus you'll support the on-going Marketing Platform integration (Oracle Marketing Cloud).

As Technical Development Manager, you'll also be responsible for the delivery of key components of the modern marketing vision. This will involve delivery of technical solutions from requirements management through to testing and delivery.

The role is an essential part of the Marketing Operations function and the wider Central Marketing department and is critical in helping the leadership team understand, shape and plan Transformational change activities across technical solutions (SharePoint, Workflow, DAM). Therefore, you'll be expected to fully support all Marketing functions to deliver key technology milestones in line with the Marketing Business Change Framework and Strategy.

Furthermore, the role is an ambassador for business change, creating strong relationships throughout the Retail business and Retail project teams to build knowledge of the IT Roadmap and Marketing Strategy Framework and what it sets out to achieve. The role is therefore key in defining and then continually optimising the marketing end to end business processes, ensuring technical solutions and performance is delivered in a compliant way, meeting all of the corporate and legal requirements.

Your Skills and Experience

The ideal candidate for this role will have knowledge of the process for creating strategic and tactical technical solutions along with knowledge of what are the most effective models for Marketing & Retail functions in large organisations.

you'll also ideally have previous experience of project or change management and knowledge of one or more of the business change disciplines such as business readiness; technical education and training support; target organisational design; or communication and engagement. A proven track record in delivering complex change, combined with project planning and strong financial acumen is also essential and if you have experience in agile methodologies even better! Furthermore, the role demands great attention to detail and an ability to troubleshoot, problem solve and action plan as well as being able to step back and see the bigger picture.

In this role you'll be the subject matter expert, but the role also requires a high degree of gravitas and influencing skills which will help you to guide a wide set of stakeholders including senior leadership. Therefore, stakeholder management and engagement will be key as you'll need to be able to understand and have knowledge of how solutions will work and then be able to explain and simplify these for your marketing stakeholders. You'll be able to explain the problems which marketing need resolutions for in a way that your IT partners will understand and then be able to relay back to the less technical marketing colleagues how the proposed solutions will work for them.

In terms of other technical skills ideally, you'll understand HTML, CSS, Javascript and Workflow Development.

If you are interested in the position please apply now!