Senior Marketing Manager

Salary: £50-52,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Hours: Full-time (see 'Flexible working')

Location: Flexible within the UK. Home-based, blended or fully office based (from our offices in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh or London).

Closing Date: Midnight, Monday 8 September 2025

Ref: KH1401

As Senior Marketing Manager, you will take direct responsibility for specific teams delivering marketing and communications activity for our clients, in support of Energy Saving Trust’s mission to tackle the climate emergency.

Who we are

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.

Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with additional leave earned through length of service

• Three extra days off over the Christmas period as a gesture of goodwill

• A competitive pension scheme with generous employer contributions

• Flexibility in our ways of working – work from home, in the office, or a mix of both, depending on your role

• Two paid volunteering days per year – a chance to give back to the causes that matter most to you

Please see our careers page for the full list of benefits we have to offer and why Energy Saving Trust is a great place to work.

The team

• You will join the Marketing Services team which is made up of around 20 colleagues based across the UK. We deliver high-quality marketing and communications activity for our clients across a range of programmes, from energy advice to households to low-carbon travel support for businesses and local authorities.

• The Marketing Services team works with other Marketing, Digital and Technology colleagues to design, deliver and continuously improve our products and services to delight our customers and exceed our business goals. We work in an increasingly agile way, and we are customer-centric, product-orientated and data-driven in all that we do.

• You’ll get access to a rich array of professional development opportunities in this role. This includes company-wide offers, such as coaching, project management and leadership training, as well as specialist marketing and communications skills development organised by our in-house ‘champions’. We also cover professional membership costs (such as the Chartered Institute of Marketing) as a staff benefit.

The role

• You will contribute to Energy Saving Trust’s growth through support for the development of our digital products, services and new business proposals.

• You will ensure that our marketing strategies, services, and business development opportunities are informed by rigorous customer insight, research, evaluation and best practice.

• You will contribute to improving operational processes for the team to maximise efficiencies.

• You will be responsible for resource and budget management.

What you’ll do

• You will ensure marketing and communications activity is effective: maximising reach and impact, delivered on time and budget, achieving KPIs, thoroughly evaluated, and aligned with best practice.

• You will develop and strengthen relationships with internal and external stakeholders, influencing and collaborating to achieve positive outcomes for our marketing and communications.

• You will lead or contribute to market development initiatives and business development opportunities, including the mobilisation of new programmes and campaigns

• You will advocate for and lead on in-depth evaluation of activity to inform the development of our services and how they’re promoted, working in collaboration with relevant team members across the department and the wider company.

What you’ll bring

• You will have extensive knowledge of strategic marketing and communication campaign planning and delivery.

• You will have knowledge and experience of team leadership, coaching, and staff management and development.

• You will bring knowledge and experience of resource planning, budget management, effective research methodologies and evaluation.

• You will bring strong communication and influencing skills that enable you to build relationships at all levels.

• You’ll have an understanding of and commitment to Energy Saving Trust’s mission and values, including our efforts to become a more diverse, inclusive and equitable organisation.

To apply please visit our recruitment portal via our website.

Applications close midnight, Monday 8 September. Interviews11 are intended to be held in the week commencing Monday 15 September.

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Reasonable adjustments: We are a Disability Confident Committed employer. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for, everyone.

If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch.

Flexible working: We offer a range of flexible working arrangements, including working from home, compressed or part-time hours, job shares and other arrangements. There is no need to justify your preferred working pattern and we encourage our people to work in whichever way helps them to perform at their best.

We will be happy to discuss this and our blended working model at the interview stage with you.

Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

Diversity and inclusion

Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best.

We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the minimum criteria for a role. Find out more here.