Projects Marketing Manager

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Job Purpose

This is a key role in leading the transformation of the marketing function, influencing the marketing plans to align with strategic priorities , regulatory change and delivering key projects. Reporting to the Head of Marketing Operations, the role holder will lead a small team, working closely with key stakeholders in a matrix structure, and will be responsible for the planning, delivery, measurement and management of workloads and capacity.

They will work closely with key member of the Marketing team, including Operations, Communications, Data and Digital, and forge strong working relationships with the change function as well as business unit and functional teams such as Propositions, Distribution, Compliance, Risk and Legal.

Duties/Responsibilities

• To lead the team responsible for delivering strategic and tactical programmes and projects to improved CLUK marketing and communications to reduce risk, deliver faster solutions and/or improve effectiveness/ROI
• To own the marketing project delivery plan, setting out clear objectives and strategies to deliver through agile or waterfall approaches, defining milestones, highlighting dependencies, deliverables and all project tasks, to ensure all KPI are delivered to time, quality and cost measures
• To supervise the team through the use of strong people management skills, so the staff have the motivation and training to deliver to the required levels of performance, and tomanage team plans and resources using an agile resource pool when required to achieve objectives
• To be the first point of contact to represent Marketing during the discovery and inception stage of project planning, ensuring requirements are fully understood and evaluated through clear assessment framework, with clear recommendations to the SLT or business, and adapting the marketing plans accordingly
• To work closely with the strategic change and regulatory teams to understand future change and strategic programmes, ensuring alignment and prioritisation with the marketing planning cycle
• To manage the project budgets using the agreed budget management process and tools, including supporting the annual budget planning cycle, and the monthly budgeting process for invoices, accruals and transactions
• Work closely with stakeholders in other departments as required, such as distribution, proposition, risk, legal and compliance, and external stakeholders and 3rd parties when required

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• A background in financial services and knowledge of intermediated distribution
• Practical experience in a marketing project management role, demonstrating personal delivery and delivery through teams across all strands of marketing
• Exceptional project management skills, including planning, resourcing, budgeting managing risks and issues, reporting and evaluating effectiveness, and knowledge of agile and/or waterfall methodology
• Ability to manage and prioritise large, fast-paced, varied workloads in a large complex environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent stakeholder skills, and adept at winning support from a wide range of people and collaborating closely when needed to achieve common goals
• Highly organised with excellent time management skills
• A positive mindset with strong self-motivation and resilience, a flexible and proactive approach to tackling problems, and comfort at managing several tasks to often challenging deadlines
• Experience of managing projects or working in a regulated environment
• Experience of producing reports, from briefing to drafting or commissioning content, and through to final publishing.
• Experience of estimating, forecasting, allocating and monitoring resources and budgets.
• Ability to demonstrate exceptional judgement, with a strong commercial understanding

Benefits of working at Canada Life

We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that's regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you'll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development.

How we work at Canada Life

Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others. Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together and find a way forward.

We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. That's why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop.

Diversity and inclusion

Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. We are proud of the progress we're making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus.

"At Canada Life we believe in the power of great people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives coming together to build better futures. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all." Nick Harding, Chief People Officer, Canada Life UK

We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for.