Senior Field Marketing Executive

**About You**

We are looking for a highly motivated, commercially, and analytically strong field-based Senior Marketing Executive who can deploy effective marketing and business development activities to drive awareness and consideration for developments across our Southern Division.

To be successful in this role you will have marketing and business development experience within the property industry and/or an agency environment and/ or a lifestyle-oriented business and you will have proven experience in developing advertising campaigns ideally both on and off-line, to set timescales and within budget. You will possess strong copy-writing and proofing skills and have a great eye for detail and effectively and efficiently work to tight deadlines without sacrificing quality.

Strong commercial awareness and excellent communication skills with the ability to build a network of relationships across a large organisation is essential. You will have the ability to multitask, prioritise and make decisions under pressure and appropriately challenge conventional approaches.

**The Role**:
Providing a commercially focused and professional marketing service you will be responsible for the delivery of overall divisional marketing and business development strategy, to maximise ROI, provide optimised customer experience and deliver against commercial KPIs. You will work collaboratively with Divisional Marketing departments to ensure an efficient and joined up approach to overall marketing strategy.

You will be responsible for sharing effective community engagement plans to support awareness and lead generation through all customer journey phases. Provide understanding, governance and reporting of divisional marketing and business development activity to ensure effective ongoing communication with prospects and to maximise awareness, consideration, and conversion.

This role is a fixed term contract for 12 months and can accommodate an agile working arrangement. We are looking for you to be within a commutable distance of our Ringwood office and with the use of the Company Car allowance provided you will be required to travel to developments across our Southern Division.

**Benefits**

**Financial**:

- Competitive salary and bonus scheme
- Company Car allowance
- Company pension scheme
- Life Assurance

**Lifestyle/Health & Wellbeing**:

- 24 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- 2 fully paid volunteering days per year (supported by the McCarthy Stone Foundation)
- Health benefits such as Remote GP, 24/7 access to EAP Services (including counsellors and legal advisors) and eyecare voucher
- Colleagues Benefit Booklet with a range of store offers discounts and promotions
- Family Friendly Policies

**Your Attributes**

**You will have**:

- 3 A levels at Grade C or above (or equivalent) and ideally a Degree (or equivalent).
- Strong planning and organisation skills with the ability to work to multiple deadlines. Proven project management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to influence and engage to suit customer groups.
- Able to rapidly forge effective and collaborative working relationship with others, both internal and external.
- Able to maintain, adhere to and support others to work to agreed quality standards and ways of working.
- A desire to work in an environment of continual improvement.

**You will be**:

- A proactive self-starter with a ‘can do’ attitude who is able to work effectively both as part of a team and on your own initiative
- Enthusiastic and self-driven
- Able to work closely in line with agreed standards and processes, whilst being practical and able to think outside the box where necessary.
- Tenacious positive in the face of adversity, shows passion, hunger, and a drive to deliver.
- Resilient and adaptable - able to adjust rapidly to change.
- Ambitious, personable and willing to work collaboratively with others
- Customer relationship and Customer service focussed
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPointAs the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.

We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.

We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list