Product Marketing Manager

Job Description

Career Family and Level: Product & Proposition – Associate Band 1

Job Type: 12 Month FTC

Closing Date: 3th September 2024

Location and flexible working: London, Birmingham, or Edinburgh. We recognise the benefits of flexible working and will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.

Flexible working: All our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.

Salary and benefits: £30,000 - £52,000 plus 8% up to 16% bonus, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more!

We’re currently recruiting for a Product Marketing Manager to join the Product Marketing Team in Retirement Solutions.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The Role

You will be responsible for the creation and management of product marketing collateral and content to launch and promote retirement income solutions to our key audiences, including customers and advisers, achieving the desired external market positioning of the products.

Working closely with product colleagues and other teams within our business you will help shape product marketing communications and manage the go to market plans for new product launches. You will ensure, through research insights, that communications are successful, deliver high impact and support commercial objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Managing the end-to-end development and sign off of product marketing collateral.
• Building strong relationships with business stakeholders to enable collaboration and buy-in
• Partnering with the SL marketing team and Channel marketing teams for timely delivery of high impact product communications
• Reporting on results and progress against plan, for each activity within plan and against budget on a monthly and quarterly basis (as a minimum) and as required
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of end customer and intermediary needs and behaviours, so that communications are tailored to reflect these needs.
• Commissioning research to ensure that product literature aligns to Consumer Duty regulations.

Essential

What We’re Looking For
• Experience and knowledge of the pensions industry; pension and investment products. (If you do not have this specific experience you must come from a regulated business background)
• Relevant B2B2C marketing experience
• Ability to work on, and at times lead multiple activities at one time and manage own workload and the activity of others.
• Ability to translate data or research into compelling insights and recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships, persuade and influence in a matrix structure
• Highly organised with the ability to manage and deliver projects to tight deadlines, both directly, through agencies and with the marketing team
• Strong collaboration and teamwork skills, within immediate team and across other business divisions
• Adept at writing and updating product literature

Desirable
• Keen interest in and aptitude for understanding the products and services offered by the business, as well as the market sector

What We Offer

Bring your ‘whole self’, skills and dedication to the Phoenix Group and we’ll recognise your effort, support your development and help to drive your ambition. We’ll ensure you’re rewarded for your contribution with a competitive package that includes an attractive pension, annual bonus potential, private medical insurance, generous holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity and adoption leave and a range of other financial services and lifestyle flexible benefits.

Online Interviews and Onboarding

All our interviews, onboarding and new joiners are now managed remotely. We have in place a strong virtual support network to ensure new colleagues are supported and developed as they navigate their first few months with us

Find out more about
• Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates
• Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.thephoenixgroup.com/careers/talk-to-us