Location - Bournemouth (Hybrid – 2 days per week – 1 day fixed, the other flexible)
Salary: £75,000 + £5,000 car allowance

Benefits: + Good bonus + excellent benefits which include 9% personal cont. for 12% company cont. pension, 28 days leave plus bank holidays, 10x life assurance and lots more

A major financial services organisation is looking to appoint a Senior Manager looking to take the next step into a Lead Manager position to run a team of Paid and Organic search marketers within its growing digital function.

This is a step-up opportunity. Ideally seeking an experienced Senior Digital Performance Manager who’s ready to broaden their scope.

Who’s been close to the detail, understands how channels perform, and now wants to take on wider ownership across the full customer journey.

You’ll inherit a solid foundation. A capable team, established channels, and real investment. The role is about building on that. Joining the dots across paid, organic and on-site performance, and shaping how it all works together.

It’s also about ensuring search and other performance channels are future facing, with the company represented appropriately within emerging spaces such as AI – which includes Google AI Search and GEO search. Building from experimentation in these channels to drive significant value and ROI. Adapting to the quick changing landscape, and its impact on performance marketing funnels.

Since this sits in a growth team, it will cover full-funnel digital performance across key customer journeys, covering acquisition, engagement and conversion.

Your team principally handle everything in-house, with occasional use of agencies just to check what they’re doing represents class leading, and to keep them honest. So they tend to utilise agencies more for things like reviewing content structure and UX optimisation, rather than build and execution of a paid search campaign, for example.

This is a growth role, created as a new position to support the company’s ambitions to grow market share as they launch new propositions to market. You’ll be given control of a team of 4 immediately and 2 new hires to make which you will also define and shape to ensure you’ve got the right mix of skills in the team to deliver to the business’ objectives.

What you’ll be doing

• Taking ownership of digital performance across acquisition, engagement and conversion
• Translating commercial goals into clear channel strategies, targets and delivery plans
• Overseeing performance across all paid media, SEO/GEO, CRO and digital journeys
• Using data and insight to identify opportunities and guide optimisation decisions
• Driving a test-and-learn approach across channels and customer touchpoints
• Leading performance reviews and presenting clear, commercially grounded insights
• Managing and developing a team of digital specialists
• Keeping pace with changes in AI, search and media, and applying this in a practical way

Experience Needed

• Ideally you’ve majored in Organic/SEO with a solid exposure to experimentation in GEO search recently. But still have strong skills in paid search too. Able to lead and manage PPC specialists, coach, mentor, train and developing their skills.
• Likely operating at Senior Manager level currently brand side, looking for broader ownership and a role which elevates you into a more strategic position
• Or working agency side in a senior position leading performance marketing teams and overseeing client delivery
• Experience influencing performance across multiple channels rather than sitting in one silo
• Established team leadership experience, with evidenced experience of coaching, mentoring and developing a team of performance marketers
• Strong analytical thinking, comfortable working with data and drawing clear conclusions
• Able to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders without overcomplicating things
• Experience in regulated environments is helpful, but not essential

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile (but please ensure there’s more than just job titles listed) or email me a CV.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

Location - Tunbridge Wells (Hybrid – 2 days per week – 1 day fixed, the other flexible)
Salary: £75,000 + £5,000 car allowance

Benefits: + 20% bonus + excellent benefits which include class leading pension, 28 days leave plus bank holidays, 10x life assurance and lots more

A major financial services organisation is looking to appoint a Performance Marketing Lead into its growing digital function.

This is a step-up opportunity. Ideally seeking an experienced Senior Digital Performance Manager who’s ready to broaden their scope.

Who’s been close to the detail, understands how channels perform, and now wants to take on wider ownership across the full customer journey.

You’ll inherit a solid foundation. A capable team, established channels, and real investment. The role is about building on that. Joining the dots across paid, organic and on-site performance, and shaping how it all works together.

It’s also about ensuring search and other performance channels are future facing, with the company represented appropriately within emerging spaces such as AI – which includes Google AI Search and GEO search. Building from experimentation in these channels to drive significant value and ROI. Adapting to the quick changing landscape, and its impact on performance marketing funnels.

Since this sits in a growth team, it will cover full-funnel digital performance across key customer journeys, covering acquisition, engagement and conversion.

What you’ll be doing

• Taking ownership of digital performance across acquisition, engagement and conversion
• Translating commercial goals into clear channel strategies, targets and delivery plans
• Overseeing performance across all paid media, SEO/GEO, CRO and digital journeys
• Using data and insight to identify opportunities and guide optimisation decisions
• Driving a test-and-learn approach across channels and customer touchpoints
• Leading performance reviews and presenting clear, commercially grounded insights
• Managing and developing a team of digital specialists
• Keeping pace with changes in AI, search and media, and applying this in a practical way

Experience Needed

• A strong performance marketing background across paid and organic channels with evidenced experience of GEO and AI search, even if it’s just experimentation, but you’re able to talk to the results being achieved
• Likely operating at Senior Manager level currently, looking for broader ownership
• Or working agency side in a senior position leading performance marketing teams and overseeing client delivery
• Experience influencing performance across multiple channels rather than sitting in one silo
• Established team leadership experience, with evidenced experience of coaching, mentoring and developing a team of performance marketers
• Strong analytical thinking, comfortable working with data and drawing clear conclusions
• Able to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders without overcomplicating things
• Experience in regulated environments is helpful, but not essential

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile (but please ensure there’s more than just job titles listed) or email me a CV.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

Location: Hemel Hempstead (Hybrid – 3 days per week)
Salary: £45,000 + 15% bonus + benefits

We are looking to appoint a PPC Manager to help evolve the paid search capability of a high-profile consumer-facing business, which operates in a fast paced dynamic trading environment.

On paper, the role talks about ownership, scale and big budget responsibility (in the millions) covering multiple product lines. In reality, it’s a genuine step-up opportunity.

However, they’re not expecting a finished PPC leader to step into this role, but someone who is on that journey to hopefully become one - and who will see the potential through the scale of this opportunity to help you get there.

This is more positioned at an experienced Senior Executive who’s ready to take that next step and grow into a broader, more strategic remit over time.

You’ll be working closely and be coached by a highly experienced and decorated Head of Search Marketing – someone who themselves has been recognised by Google as one of the top players within this space. Gaining exposure to large-scale budgets, advanced bidding strategies and cross-channel planning, while gradually building out your own ownership in the role.

The company you’ll be doing this for is a big brand within the hospitality and leisure industry. They’re recognised for handling campaigns in-house, which is why being technically astute and competent with platforms like SA360 will be important to your success in this role.

What you’ll be doing

• Supporting the planning, management and optimisation of PPC campaigns across Google and Microsoft Ads
• Working with a range of campaign types including Performance Max and AI Max,  automated bidding strategies focused on ROAS
• Analysing performance data and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and scale
• Managing budgets across daily, weekly and quarterly cycles, ensuring strong control and reporting
• Collaborating with internal teams and stakeholders to align PPC activity with wider marketing objectives
• Presenting performance insights in a clear, commercially meaningful way

What they’re looking for

• Solid grounding in PPC, ideally from a Senior Executive or equivalent role – either agency or end brand side
• Must have hands-on experience across Google Ads (and ideally Microsoft Ads), including campaign optimisation and bid strategies, and good knowledge of working with SA360
• Strong analytical capability, comfortable working with data and translating it into action
• Confidence working with spreadsheets, dashboards and tools such as Google Analytics
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Someone who wants to step up, take on more ownership, and grow into a management-level position

Why this role?

• Clear progression path into a more senior, strategic PPC leadership role
• Exposure to large budgets and complex campaign structures early in your development
• Support from an experienced leader who will actively help you grow
• A business that invests in learning, development and long-term career pathways

Package

• £45,000 base salary
• 15% bonus
• Pension and life assurance
• Discount platform covering holidays, utilities, retail and more
• EV car scheme
• Additional lifestyle and wellbeing benefits

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile (but please ensure there’s more than just job titles listed) or email me a CV.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

**Does require travel 2-3 days per week to visit sites around the country. So you do need to have a valid driving license.**

This is a brand new role within a growing UK organisation centred around providing services to young families. It’s part of the marketing team, responsible for creating local marketing plans and strategies for venues – these are often tactical marketing plans with a focus on local communities – these can range from multi-channel campaigns using highly targeted media within local communities, to engaging with employers, community hubs and businesses in the area which will help drive local brand awareness of the venue, which in turn generates new customer enquiries. These are often multi-channel and a mix of on and offline campaigns.

To be successful in this kind of role, you’ve got to the be kind of person who enjoys being out in the world, speaking with people, spotting patterns, joining the dots and giving venue managers the kind of practical ideas that make a measurable difference to how they attract new customers – with practical, workable marketing toolkits they’re able to implement at a local level.

It is a rare mix. Field based. Creative. Commercial. And full of variety.

What you will be doing

You’ll spend a good chunk of your time visiting sites based around the UK – as far north as Shropshire, as south as London.

Sitting with managers of the venues. Understanding why enquiries are flowing or slowing. Figuring out what will help them attract more families. Turning interest into engagement, and engagement into bookings – coming up with ideas which could work for their location and project managing them through a central marketing team, there to support you with getting things from the idea stage through to delivery.

Some days it will be about improving visibility in a local area. Maybe that involves small scale creative campaigns - poster placements, partnerships with nearby employers or clever community outreach ideas that highlights the brand and its benefits to the right audiences in a meaningful way.

Other days might involve supporting open days and events. Helping managers find and organise specialist partners. Creating a network of experts they can draw upon whenever they want something a bit different.

What makes this interesting

There is a lot of freedom to experiment. Fresh thinking is welcomed. The organisation values someone who can take a challenge, break it down, and recommend something practical that fits the local context rather than relying on cookie cutter solutions.

You won’t be stuck behind a screen all week. You’ll travel, meeting a variety of people. You’ll get to see first-hand the impact your ideas have.

And you’ll work with a central marketing team that appreciates clear insight from the field. You deliver a sharp brief, they’ll bring it to life.

Who this suits

• Someone with a solid background in marketing who enjoys being out on the ground rather than confined to strategy docs in an office all day.
• Experience within Retail Marketing, Marketing/Brand Activation, Local Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Field Marketing (B2C / D2C) environments
• Got to have experience delivering marketing campaigns and activations for multi-site environments
• Someone who can switch effortlessly between creative problem solving and commercial reasoning.
• Someone who likes people. Because you’ll be meeting a lot of them.
• Someone with the confidence to advise managers who don’t come from a marketing background.
• Someone organised, adaptable and comfortable travelling to different parts of the UK each week.

Experience in field marketing, local marketing, community engagement or multi-site environments will all translate well.

A full UK driving licence is essential – as is the right to live and work in the UK.

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

You can share your Linkedin profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122
colin@bluepelican.com

Salary: £35,000 to £40,000 base + 12% bonus and benefits

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Working setup: Hybrid (3 days in office) | Onsite parking

If you’re happiest when you’re deep in platforms, pulling levers that shift performance of digital campaigns, this one will feel like home.

If you’ve maybe begun your career agency side working in a specialist programmatic executive remit, and your next step is either to Snr Exec or Account Management, it will seem like more of the same, just with a higher degree of autonomy. Whereas, taking this route will give you added strings to your bow, broadening your career as well as technical skills, giving you that opportunity to become a more rounded digital performance marketer.

Why? Because this isn't a role just doing programmatic - it's also giving you the opportunity to learn Paid Social as well.

This opportunity is with a major UK consumer brand in the leisure and hospitality space working as part of their performance marketing function. It's a small team, but one with a high degree of importance within their digital performance function. Since they drive a lot of leads across the company's product categories.

This will ultimately be your first potential step from single channel specialist into a broader ‘performance marketing’ direction.

The role in real terms

Programmatic campaign management – this will be from the hands-on set up, running, monitoring, optimisation and reporting – so everything you’d expect from a technical perspective and, needs someone who really is fluent with a platform like DV360 in order to deliver effectively.

Being technically proficient here is important, as you will be handling everything end-to-end.

Paid Social campaigns – if you’ve handled these before, great – but if not, this is the learning opportunity with this role, and will include the relevant platforms they’re built and executed over. Both campaign channels will have a clear focus on driving high-quality traffic and strong outcomes, not vanity metrics.

These guys tend to play with big budgets across their performance marketing channels (in the 8 digit space), so you can expect the campaigns you’ll be working on are going to be highly visible.

What that tends to look like day-to-day:

• Planning, launching and optimising Programmatic activity with clear performance goals
• Managing campaigns across key platforms including DV360, Campaign Manager, and Google Ads
• Monitoring pacing, budgets and delivery, then making smart changes based on what the data is saying
• Working with creative and brand stakeholders so messaging, formats and assets are fit for purpose (and actually drive results)
• Keeping reporting useful and actionable: performance updates, insights, learnings, and next steps
• Supporting Paid Social activity where needed, but with the role weighted clearly towards Programmatic
• Partnering with a senior channel lead, learning fast and contributing to how the channel evolves

This isn’t one of those roles where Programmatic sits in the background as an afterthought. It’s central, visible, and taken seriously.

You’ll get:

• Proper ownership in Programmatic campaigns, not just “assisting”
• A chance to become sharper on optimisation, testing and measurement
• Exposure to wider commercial thinking, not just platform work

You’ll like this role because it has momentum.

You’re not being hired to “maintain”. You’re being hired to improve and grow the channels, and you’ll be surrounded by teams that care about creative quality and performance insight.

If you’re thinking longer-term, this role sets you up nicely for:

• stepping into broader channel ownership
• developing stronger commercial confidence
• becoming a more rounded performance marketer (Paid Social + Programmatic is a strong combo)

What we’re looking for

Ideal background:

• A couple of years commercial experience with hands-on Programmatic campaign skills in a Consumer facing industry
• Sound knowledge of DV360 – (knowledge of Campaign Manager, and Google Ads is a plus)
• Strong with numbers and genuinely comfortable working with data day to day
• Organised, detail-focused, and able to keep campaigns running cleanly
• Confident using Excel and reporting performance clearly
• Comfortable dealing with multiple stakeholders (and keeping things moving)

Bonus points if you’ve worked in a fast-paced consumer brand environment, or even from a digital agency doing this for a client, or maybe even have a broader view of digital marketing beyond your core channels.

Working pattern & package

• Hybrid working: 3 days a week in the office, 2 from home
• £35,000 to £40,000 base
• 12% bonus, Pension, Healthcare, Holiday discounts and additional benefits
• Onsite parking available

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

Highly ranked boutique law firm in Kent are looking to recruit a property development solicitor to join a very busy and friendly team.

This team act for a variety of property developers (both big and small) on residential developments and plot sales around London and the surrounding areas.  

The ideal applicant will have some property development experience but my client is happy to consider solicitors with a strong property background (either residential or commercial property) who would be keen to be involved with development work.

This is a mid to senior level position and therefore it is anticipated that you will have at least 4 years PQE.

This firm are very friendly and modern and offer lots of flexibility and hybrid working.  They are based in West Kent.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

Very highly regarded and long established law firm based in Kent, are succession planning and looking to recruit a senior level private client solicitor to join at partner level and take over the running of the private client department.

This department is one of the most successful and most profitable in the firm and therefore it is crucial for them to get the right person on board.

The private client department handles a range of work including probate, wills, tax, trusts, LPA's, estate planning, estate administration and some Court of Protection work.  Many clients are high net worth with complex estates.

As this is such a senior level position, applications are welcome from qualified solicitors at senior associate or partner level, with at least 10 years PQE.  You are likely to either be a head of department at the moment, or you will be a number two or three in the department who is looking to take that step up and run your own team.  

STEP membership would be a distinct advantage and you will have experience managing and mentoring more junior members of staff. 

A following is NOT required, but experience of networking and business development is expected.  

For more information or a highly confidential discussion, then please contact Julie Fernandes.

Legal 500 law firm who have been established for many years are looking to grow their employment law department by recruiting at additional lawyer.  

This role will involve managing both contentious and non-contentious employment matters acting mainly for employers.  

This firm offer tons of flexibility and hybrid working (which is set to stay) and are a genuinely fantastic place to work - they are hugely friendly, ambitious, and are heavily investing in their employees to make the firm (and everyone in it) the greatest it can be.

The employment team deal with a high quality client base and caseload and the firm are very highly ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers.  

You are likely to have at least 2 years PQE in employment law and will ideally have experience of acting for employers and employees.  An interest in networking and business development would be an advantage and you will be a team player who is keen to be part of a hugely collaborative department.

This role could be full time or 4 days per week.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

Leading Kent law firm are currently looking to recruit an experienced residential conveyancer for their Canterbury office.

This role will involve managing a high quality, low volume caseload, with plenty of secretarial support.  This firm feel that emphasis should be on providing a high quality professional service to clients, rather than managing a high volume caseload, where client care is bottom of the list.

They are happy to consider qualified solicitors, legal executives or licensed conveyancers and are also very happy to consider experienced conveyancers too.  You must just have at least 5 years experience of managing a residential property caseload from start to finish.

On offer is a highly competitive salary and benefits package and achievable bonus.  Flexibility and hybrid working comes as standard.  This is genuinely a lovely place to work where staff are treated with the value and respect they deserve.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

Boutique Legal 500 law firm are looking to recruit an experienced qualified solicitor to head up their commercial litigation team.  

This team deal with high quality, high value and sometimes high profile commercial disputes, so you will be dealing with City quality work but in rural Kent.

This role is perfect for a lawyer with at least 7 years PQE who is either at senior associate or partner level, but wants to make that next step up, to head up a department.  You will be a strong litigator with a solid background in commercial and contractual disputes.  Any management and business development experience would be useful but is not essential.  No following is required.  

On offer is a highly competitive base salary plus a bonus and commission structure on top, so the earning potential is one of the best I know of in Kent.  

The firm also offer hybrid working (3 days per week in the office), flexible hours and opportunity to travel.  Genuine work/life balance is standard.  

For more information or a confidential discussion then please contact Julie Fernandes.

Top 100 law firm based in West Kent are currently looking to recruit an additional lawyer into their award winning private client team.  This team is one of the largest private client teams in Kent and they deal with top quality work, acting for both high net worth and international clients.  The role will involve probate, wills, LPA's, estate planning and administration and tax and trusts planning.  Initially this will start as a broad role but you will have the opportunity to specialise more later on should you want to.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the best firms in the South East and be involved in a variety of private client work, the quality of which you would normally only expect to get in London.  

This is a mid level position and therefore applications are welcome from qualified Solicitors or Legal Executives ideally with 3+ years experience in private client work, ideally including some experience of working with high net worth clients.

On offer is hybrid working (3 days per week in the office and 2 days WFH), flexibility, very impressive salary, comprehensive benefits package, bonus, and the opportunity to learn from some of the best private client partners in the South East.

The firm are also offering to put the successful applicant through the STEP qualification.

They have an impressive central modern office easily commutable from many Kent towns including Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Bromley, Orpington, Dartford.  It is also commutable from areas of Sussex including Crowborough, Uckfield, Lewes, Haywards Heath.  

For more information please apply or contact Julie Fernandes.

Leading Kent law firm are currently recruiting into their award winning property disputes department.

This team deal with a variety of property disputes acting for both commercial and residential clients.

This role gives the opportunity to handle a quality caseload with high quality clients along with offering fantastic prospects for progression and advancement in the firm.  Many of their lawyers joined them in a junior role and are now partners.

Also on offer is hybrid working (2 or 3 days per week in the office) lots of flexibility and a genuinely friendly and supportive team.  

Applications are welcome from qualified solicitors or legal executives who ideally have 2+ years PQE in property litigation.  

Please also apply if you are an experienced property litigator (but not qualified) or you have a more generalist litigation background but still have solid experience in property disputes.  

For more information or a confidential discussion then please contact Julie Fernandes.

This boutique law firm offer top quality commercial work and clients, alongside heaps of flexibility including remote working.

This role is to join their busy and highly successful commercial team - they provide advice on a variety of commercial contracts including drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts and also advise on IP and IT matters and data protection matters too, specialising in supporting the technology industry.

Tech experience and an interest in it would be a big advantage.

This is a senior level position and therefore it is anticipated you will have at least 5 years PQE.  A qualified Solicitor or Legal Executive is required and you will have solid experience in handling commercial contracts.  You must be a strong negotiator as you will often be dealing directly with magic circle law firms.

You will be enthusiastic and hard working and in return you will be part of a friendly and supportive team, who offer unrivalled flexibility, a competitive salary and benefits package and lots of staff days out!

My client are happy to consider those looking for full time work or those looking to work 4 days per week.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

I am assisting a well-established and growing law firm, to expand their team of Partners. The firm has a reputation for providing exceptional legal services to clients across various sectors such as; Private Client, Corporate, Commercial, Banking, Dispute Resolution/Litigation, IP, Real Estate, Tax, IT, Employment, Regulatory, Fintech etc 

The firm work on a consultancy model and they are described as combining the best parts of private practice and consultancy. The firm was established by the Partners (a former CEO & a consultant at a leading fee share firm) as they recognised and understood the typical pain points of a consultancy model and put plans in place to keep a strong Commercial brand, a measured recruitment process and fantastic culture/retention rates.

What they are doing differently

• Recruitment process to ensure they are recruiting not only the best talent, but also ensuring a great cultural fit (not just recruiting based on extent of following)
• Have an uncompromising approach to quality
• Maintaining a collaborative, energetic & enthusiastic approach (no silo mentality)
• Access to teams to support you with Compliance, Finance, Admin, Marketing, as well as support from paralegals. This enables you to focus on building your practice and benefits your clients.  And allows you to go on holiday knowing your work/clients are covered.
• Support provided during restrictive covenant periods – they understand that solicitors sometimes have restrictions in place when moving to a new firm, so during the interview process they will be able to discuss what work can be internally directed to you, while you continue to build your client base. The managing partners will work with you closely on marketing & BD initiatives.
• They maintain a busy & active social calendar, both face to face and virtually. This helps create a great culture, even though the Partners work all across the UK/Internationally.

What you get

• Take home 75% of your billings + referral fees are set between 10-30%.
• You decide when, how and where you work (you can achieve a genuine work life balance) - Remote working as standard
• Take as many holidays as you want
• A firm that nurtures and inspires a team culture
• Opportunity to work with talented and well ranked Partners
• Work for a recognised award winning firm
• A huge support network for you to utilise

Requirements

• Client following of £130,000+
• 10+ PQE (although I will consider candidates with less, that have great experience)
• The firm are looking for people that will be a great culture fit, are personable, approachable and collaborative.

Location: UK (Remote working available, with offices to use in London, Birmingham & Manchester)

Remuneration: 75% of your billings

Leading, well established and friendly law firm in Kent, are currently recruiting for a mid level commercial property solicitor to join their Sevenoaks office.

This role involves joining a small collaborative team, who handle a range of real estate matters from large commercial properties/land to light commercial property work and everything in between.

Applications are welcome from qualified solicitors or legal executives who ideally have at least 2 years PQE in commercial property.  

You will join a very friendly and informal firm, albeit very professional.  This firm are also known for their progression opportunities, with many of the partners having joined at a junior level.

On offer is a competitive salary, lots of flexibility and hybrid working (3 days per week in the office).  This is a full time role but they are very happy to consider lawyers looking to work 4 days per week or 5 shorter days.

For more information please contact Julie Fernandes.

With so many industries, as a marketer, finding the USP in the product and being able to amplify that sell can be a challenge. The product can be dry, lacks character or doesn’t necessarily hold powerful or emotive USP’s with the customer.

With this, that’s easy – and it’s because the sell is all about feelings, memories and emotions. But it’s also centred around a product people love.

Their Holidays….

As the CRM Marketing Manager, your role will be owning the lifecycle marketing programme for their holiday segment – sitting at the intersection of CRM strategy, campaign execution and commercial impact. With responsibility for the technical build, test, deployment and optimisation of CRM journeys. As well as coming up with new campaign concepts and CRM strategies which could potentially yield value and benefit for the programme overall.

You’ll manage an experienced CRM Executive, responsible for their development and growth in the business. Around you will be a wider CRM function of 7, and you’ll be reporting to the head of division. It’s a commercially focused role, looking to drive customer engagement and incremental revenue through data-led marketing programmes covering the whole consumer lifecycle.

You will lead the delivery of lifecycle communications across channels such as email, app and direct messaging, leveraging rich data sets to create highly personalised journeys that guide customers from initial inspiration through booking, in-stay engagement and future re-booking.

If you enjoy combining hands-on technical CRM operations with strategic thinking which drive commercial outcomes, this role offers the opportunity to do both.

The Role

As Customer Lifecycle Marketing Manager, you will oversee the planning, build and optimisation of lifecycle campaigns that support holiday sales and customer engagement across the full booking and re-booking journey.

Working closely with commercial, digital and brand teams, you will translate trading priorities into targeted campaigns while continually identifying opportunities to improve performance through personalisation, automation and testing.

The role also includes line management responsibility for a CRM Executive and close collaboration with a broad group of internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Lifecycle Campaign Strategy and Delivery

• Develop and implement lifecycle marketing initiatives that drive bookings, ancillary sales and repeat visits
• Build and optimise automated journeys across key stages of the customer lifecycle including pre-booking, post-booking, during stay and re-engagement
• Deliver personalised campaigns across channels such as email, app messaging and SMS
• Ensure campaigns are delivered accurately and on time from concept through to execution

CRM Operations and Platform Management

• Build and manage customer journeys within a CRM/CDP environment (Bloomreach preferred)
• Implement behavioural triggers and always-on lifecycle programmes
• Analyse campaign performance and identify opportunities for optimisation and incremental revenue
• Use segmentation and personalisation to deliver more relevant communications at scale

Commercial and Strategic Contribution

• Translate trading priorities into CRM campaigns that support holiday sales, upgrades and ancillary purchases
• Develop new campaign concepts and lifecycle initiatives that increase engagement and customer value
• Use data and customer insight to answer commercial questions and guide campaign planning

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with teams across marketing, digital, data and commercial functions
• Present campaign plans, insights and results to senior stakeholders
• Support wider marketing activity by ensuring CRM integrates effectively with paid and owned channels

Team Leadership

• Manage and support a CRM Executive
• Provide guidance on campaign planning, build and optimisation
• Encourage a test-and-learn culture within the lifecycle marketing team

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone who combines technical CRM expertise with commercial thinking. You should feel comfortable both building campaigns and shaping the strategy behind them.

Experience

• Proven experience delivering CRM or lifecycle marketing campaigns end-to-end
• Strong experience working with an ESP or marketing automation platform
• Experience building automated customer journeys and personalised communications
• Background in hospitality, leisure, travel or another customer-centric industry is highly desirable

Technical knowledge

• Experience with Bloomreach is highly desirable - Other platforms such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze or similar ESPs will also be considered.
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS for email, JSON for App push

Skills

• Strong understanding of customer lifecycle marketing and behavioural triggers
• Ability to translate commercial goals into effective CRM campaigns
• Analytical mindset with a focus on optimisation and performance improvement
• Confident communicator who can explain campaign strategy and results to stakeholders
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving commercial environment
• Experience managing people is beneficial, but experience in mentoring and developing more junior talent will be a minimum need

Benefits

• £50,000 – £57,000 base salary
• 15% performance based bonus
• Hybrid working (3 days in the office)
• On-site parking available
• 25 days holiday (plus option to buy/sell more)
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• EV car leasing scheme (via salary sacrifice)
• Discounted holiday stays, retail discount scheme, discounted utilities, etc.

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

Salary: £32,000 to £38,000 base + 12% bonus and benefits

Location: Hemel Hempstead

Working setup: Hybrid (3 days in office) | Onsite parking

If you’re happiest when you’re deep in platforms, pulling levers that shift performance of digital campaigns, this one will feel like home.

If you’ve maybe begun your career agency side working in a specialist programmatic executive remit, and your next step is either to Snr Exec or Account Management, it will seem like more of the same, just with a higher degree of autonomy. Whereas, taking this route will give you added strings to your bow, broadening your career as well as technical skills, giving you that opportunity to become a more rounded digital performance marketer.

This opportunity is with a major UK consumer brand in the leisure and hospitality space working as part of their performance marketing function.

Whilst their immediate need is to find someone whose principal expertise lie within programmatic campaigns (both display and video), working with DV360. The role itself will expand upon this and give you the opportunity to learn paid social as part of your career growth.

This will ultimately be your first potential step from single channel specialist into a broader ‘performance marketing’ direction.

The role in real terms

The immediate gap, and value you’ll bring to the team will be your experience in Programmatic campaigns – this will be from the hands-on set up, running, monitoring, optimisation and reporting – so everything you’d expect from a technical perspective and so needs someone who really is fluent with a platform like DV360 in order to deliver effectively.

You will be trained on Paid Social campaigns, and the relevant platforms they’re built and executed over. Both campaign channels will have a clear focus on driving high-quality traffic and strong outcomes, not vanity metrics.

These guys tend to play with big budgets across their performance marketing channels (in the 8 digit space), so you can expect the campaigns you’ll be working on are going to be highly visible.

What that tends to look like day-to-day:

• Planning, launching and optimising Programmatic activity with clear performance goals
• Managing campaigns across key platforms including DV360, Campaign Manager, and Google Ads
• Monitoring pacing, budgets and delivery, then making smart changes based on what the data is saying
• Working with creative and brand stakeholders so messaging, formats and assets are fit for purpose (and actually drive results)
• Keeping reporting useful and actionable: performance updates, insights, learnings, and next steps
• Supporting Paid Social activity where needed, but with the role weighted clearly towards Programmatic
• Partnering with a senior channel lead, learning fast and contributing to how the channel evolves

This isn’t one of those roles where Programmatic sits in the background as an afterthought. It’s central, visible, and taken seriously.

You’ll get:

• Proper ownership in Programmatic campaigns, not just “assisting”
• A chance to become sharper on optimisation, testing and measurement
• Exposure to wider commercial thinking, not just platform work

You’ll like this role because it has momentum.

You’re not being hired to “maintain”. You’re being hired to improve and grow the channels, and you’ll be surrounded by teams that care about creative quality and performance insight.

If you’re thinking longer-term, this role sets you up nicely for:

• stepping into broader channel ownership
• developing stronger commercial confidence
• becoming a more rounded performance marketer (Paid Social + Programmatic is a strong combo)

What we’re looking for

Ideal background:

• A couple of years commercial experience with hands-on Programmatic campaign skills in a Consumer facing industry
• Sound knowledge of DV360 – knowledge of Campaign Manager, and Google Ads is a plus
• Strong with numbers and genuinely comfortable working with data day to day
• Organised, detail-focused, and able to keep campaigns running cleanly
• Confident using Excel and reporting performance clearly
• Comfortable dealing with multiple stakeholders (and keeping things moving)

Bonus points if you’ve worked in a fast-paced consumer brand environment, or even from a digital agency doing this for a client, or maybe even have a broader view of digital marketing beyond your core channels.

Working pattern & package

• Hybrid working: 3 days a week in the office, 2 from home
• £32,000 to £38,000 base
• 12% bonus, Pension, Healthcare, Holiday discounts and additional benefits
• Onsite parking available

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

There’s a certain kind of person who loves detail. Who notices when something sounds a bit off, or when a line in an advert might not quite hold up under the rules. Someone who reads both the message and the meaning.

If that’s you, this role might feel like home.

You’d be joining a trusted team that sits right at the heart of things – reviewing customer communications before they go out into the world. It’s a mixture of understanding what’s needed within a communication to ensure it remains compliant under FCA rules, whilst also being clear to the reader/receiver too. Making sure what they say to customers is not only fair and accurate, but genuinely engaging.

You’ll be the person who helps marketing and product teams strike the right balance between warmth and accuracy. One minute, reviewing a financial promotion for a new insurance product. The next, advising a team on how to make something clearer, simpler, better perhaps within the terms and conditions.

This isn’t a role for someone who wants to hide behind rules. It’s for someone who understands why those rules matter – who can explain, challenge and guide others towards getting it right.

Here’s what you’ll bring:

• Experience reviewing financial promotions, customer communications, or even a compliance background – naturally to do this, you must have a background within insurance, financial services or another consumer facing regulated industry where the communications must be clear and correct.
• A solid grasp of FCA, ASA and Consumer Duty standards for marketing content and copy
• The ability to influence and collaborate with different teams
• A sharp eye for language and a steady hand under pressure

And what’s in it for you:

• £40–45k base plus 10% bonus
• Great benefits including pension, healthcare, etc.
• Hybrid working – just two days a week in an office close to Tunbridge Wells
• Parking on a first-come basis, or access via local train station too

It’s a chance to work for a respected financial services provider where words really matter, and good judgement is valued.

If you’ve ever read a piece of customer communication and thought, “That could be clearer”, this might be your kind of challenge.

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

You can share your Linked-in profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122

A high-growth, multi-site organisation is looking for a Commercial Analyst to join its FP&A team. This is one of those roles where you’re not just producing numbers, you’re shaping decisions. The output lands with senior leaders, working with many of them as a business partner, and regularly informs board-level conversations, so it suits someone who likes their work to actually go somewhere.

You’ll be the person who can look at a tangle of operational activity and translate it into clear commercial insight. What’s driving revenue? Where is margin leaking? Are we resourcing in line with demand? And when someone asks “what happens if we change X?”, you’ll have a model (and a point of view) ready.

What you’ll be doing

• Turning operational and financial data into insight on revenue performance, labour efficiency, utilisation/capacity, and OpEx drivers.
• Building and refining a set of commercial KPIs that leaders can trust and use (no more debates about definitions).
• Creating business cases and scenario models to support investment decisions and big initiatives, then tracking ROI afterwards to see what really landed.
• Answering “what if” questions around pricing, wage pressure, staffing mix, utilisation shifts, new site impacts, and operational or policy changes.
• Producing Tableau dashboards and reporting that focus on drivers and actions, not just a rear-view summary.
• Working closely with operational stakeholders, presenting findings clearly, and helping teams understand the commercial levers they can pull.

Tools, data, and the reality of it

You’ll need to be strong in Excel (proper modelling, not just spreadsheets) and confident with Tableau. Data won’t always arrive perfectly packaged, so being comfortable with a bit of wrangling and sense-checking is important. If you enjoy improving reporting and making things cleaner over time, you’ll probably like this.

Experience needed

• Commercial analytics experience in FP&A / Commercial Finance / Finance Business Partnering
• Strong Excel modelling (driver-based models, scenarios, sensitivities, clean structure)
• Experience building business cases and tracking outcomes (ROI/payback, benefits realisation)
• Comfortable analysing revenue and cost drivers, ideally with exposure to labour/efficiency or operational drivers
• Tableau experience building dashboards that answer commercial questions
• Confident partnering with senior stakeholders and landing insights clearly
• Happy working with imperfect data and improving reporting/processes over time

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

You’ve got to have the right to live and work in the UK.

You can share your Linked-in profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Recruiter | Blue Pelican
01892 507122