Email Marketing Manager

Job Introduction

With the number of people living with and at risk of diabetes growing every day, our work has never felt more needed, or relevant. Our ambitious marketing and communications teams are central to helping us reach more people than ever to achieve our vision of a world where diabetes can do no harm.

Email is one of the most important communications channels we have at Diabetes UK, offering us an unique way to reach, and deepen engagement with, our beneficiaries and supporters. Every team in the charity, from Fundraising and Campaigning to our Healthcare Engagement team, relies on email to reach its key audiences. That’s why we’re looking for a brilliant Email Marketing Manager to join our team and help us deliver maximum impact through our email comms.

Interview Date: W/C 27 June 2022

Please note that all job offers are subject to you providing acceptable evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.  You might find the following resources useful:

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 If you have any questions, please contact recruitment@diabetes.org.uk

Role Responsibility

This is an especially exciting time for email marketing at Diabetes UK, as we have just moved to a new email platform, DotDigital. Working within the Strategic Marketing team, this fantastic role will be responsible for leading on the development and delivery of a new email strategy for Diabetes UK.

In this role, you’ll work with teams across the charity to better reach, engage, support, and build meaningful long-term relationships with our supporters and beneficiaries, championing an insight-driven, engagement-first approach to email with our audiences at its heart.

The Ideal Candidate

This is the perfect role for a strategic and creative thinker with excellent skills in email marketing and stakeholder management. You’ll be a talented copywriter, and be adept at building strong working relationships and advising colleagues on email best practice.

You’ll have a strong marketing and communications background (gained within an agency or in-house marketing environment) and significant experience of developing, delivering and evaluating email marketing strategies, as well as managing email data processes and workflows to build effective journeys. You’ll be enthusiastic and passionate about the opportunity to grow this vital communications channel to reach, engage and support more people affected by diabetes.

Package Description

What we can offer you: 

• Generous annual leave starting at 25 days plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days in your first 5 years here. Pro rata’d for those on part time hours or fixed term contracts.
• Generous pension provision, life assurance and income protection insurance
• A Cash Healthcare Plan (giving you up to £1,600 towards a range of out-of-pocket health expenses like new glasses, dentist, chiropractor or osteopath appointments)
• Early finish Friday and agile working
• Discounts on gym membership
• Employee assistance programme to give you support on any issues that come up in life
• Access to Remote GP, physiotherapy, mental health support, and much more
• Annual Season ticket loan (after successful completion of your probation period and for contracts that are permanent or over 12 months if fixed term)
• Home office season ticket (to help you spread the cost of any equipment or furniture you wish to purchase)
• Excellent Family-friendly and Carers policies, e.g. generous maternity, paternity, and neo-natal policies – considerably higher than statutory leave and pay
• Cycle to work scheme (after successful completion of your probation period and for contracts that are permanent or over 12 months if fixed term)
• Very active social scene including sport teams, gardening and other activities which we are delighted have continued remotely during the pandemic 
• We have a variety of well-being sessions throughout the year

About the Company

For nearly 5 million people with diabetes in the UK, there’s no day off. At Diabetes UK, we fight day in, day out for better care, treatment and support. We won’t stop until diabetes can do no harm.

With more people than ever living with diabetes and millions more at risk of developing type 2, our work has never been more needed. We make sure they get the care and support needed to live well with diabetes and avoid devastating complications.

We fund critical research, which has led to life-changing discoveries – like the first insulin pen and programmes to put type 2 diabetes into remission. Now, we want to do this for everyone and find a cure.

We can’t do any of this without you. Our staff are passionate and determined about helping everyone affected by diabetes. For over 85 years, they’ve been behind vital policy changes, as well as new treatments and technologies to make living with diabetes easier every day.

But there’s more to do. And you can be part of it.

We’re a really diverse bunch and we recognise and respect your value as an individual. As well as helping people with diabetes, you’ll be part of one of the top 30 Best UK Charities to Work For, and one of the top 75 Best Large Companies in London.

We’re committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and we need our staff and volunteers to support this.

Our vision is a world where diabetes can do no harm. Join us today, and together, we can make that a reality.

To find out more about what we do, check out our website.

Diabetes UK