Senior Venue Sales Marketing Manager

Job Introduction

We have an amazing opportunity for a talented Marketing Manager with an endless supply of energy and creative passion and a love of creatively telling stories to help to bring our brand to life!

You will support the Marketing Director to drive our Venue Sales positioning as the market leading sales channel for conferences & events in the UK&I.  You will drive Sodexo Prestige Venues and Events awareness internally and externally with strong focus on digital sales, account-based marketing and acquisition.

The role will require you to work with many different stakeholders across our portfolio of prestigious venues and events.

At Sodexo Live! we bring people together; we create exceptional moments and lasting memories. We are a unique community of people mobilized to create live experiences that are unforgettable.

Role Responsibility

You will:

• Develop and lead overarching digital marketing strategy and approach, including: social media, SEO, email marketing, website development and management of agencies to optimize organic search, identify issues and opportunities, maximize organic and paid lead generation across venue website and catering sales page
• Create content strategy and recommend visual content, photography, and video for campaigns, social and sales collateral and partner with internal sales hub, local venue sales or marketing managers on development of virtual, digital, and print collateral, centralising production and print services
• Write and design key central communications and case studies in partnership with sales hub and venues.
• Partner with Venue Director and venue marketing managers to conduct market competitive analysis and provide future high-level recommendations, based on findings.
• Partner with digital team, external agencies and sales teams to launch and accelerate marketing automation capabilities.

For a full list of responsibilities please review the attached job description

The Ideal Candidate

You will be working across twenty prestigious venues covering sports, major events and hospitality so previous experience within the sector is essential. Proven experience of working with a variety of stakeholders to deliver successful marketing execution to diverse venues is also highly desirable as you will need to be able to work across multiple projects simultaneously.

You will:

• Be up to date with the latest trends and best practices in online marketing, measurement, data management and the C&E and hospitality market        
• Have people management experience
• Have knowledge of Salesforce and account-based marketing for the purposes of customer segmentation and pulling data for campaigns
• Be able to demonstrate strong analytical and data-driven thinking
• Have an expert knowledge on GDPR to ensure compliance with data management

Package Description

For your hard work and dedication you will be rewarded with a salary of up to £55,000 plus fantastic benefits.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process