New Product Marketing Manager - 6600

Are you an innovator, passionate about engaging people in new ways to create new income streams? Join us and be a part of an ambitious, empowered and stimulating team at Save the Children. We are looking for a New Product Marketing Managerto own the end-to-end product lifecycle and scaling of our New Product Wonderbooks, including developing new ways to engage our current audience. 

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.  When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave.  We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About you

As our New Product MarketingManager, you will scale our innovative New Product, Wonderbooks. As a Marketing Manager with a creative mindset and entrepreneur spirit, you will  lead on the scaling of this unique subscription product. You will also have ownership of the end-to-end product lifecycle including developing new ways to engage our current audience.  

 80% of this role will focus on scaling Wonderbooks. The other 20% will be working with the wider team across our exciting innovation pipeline, working to research, ideate and test compelling ideas to generate new income for Save the Children.  

 In this role, you will:

• Re-launch and scale the product Wonderbooks across a range of marketing channels (in particular paid social, email, display and direct mail) including leading and delivering our artist and influencer strategy.  
• Lead on new creative positioning for Wonderbooks ensuring it's optimised and reflected across all touchpoints 
• Own the end-to-end customer journey 
• Manage external suppliers ensuring the monthly fulfilment of the product 
• Support Innovation & Development Leads to develop and deliver our innovation pipeline focused on audience engagement and income generation.  Accountable for delivering key parts of innovation cycles to take ideas from insight, through ideation, prototyping and launch to help significantly grow income and engage new audiences.  
• Plan and deliver project management of several portfolio projects at any one time, ensuring deadlines and budgets are met and timelines are clearly communicated to deliver excellent outcomes. 

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Significant experience in testing digital products, digital marketing, tracking and analytics, and prototyping.
• Expertise in conducting or partnering with agencies/internal staff for audience research interviews, workshops, ideation sessions, and sprint delivery.
• Knowledge and evidence of leading and partnering on key parts of innovation cycles, including research, ideation, prototyping, and testing.
• Keen interest in new technical innovations, demonstrable experience of data-led decision-making, and adaptable thinking.
• Proven ability to deliver operational plans on time and within budget.
• Understanding of fundraising marketing delivery and practices (desirable, not essential).

What we offer you:

• Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
• To have the best (and happiest) employees we focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
• You can find is our employment offer here.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

Closing Date: 28^th March 2024

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter).  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here. 

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure: 

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-offer/

Interview Expenses: 

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employmentChecks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• receipt of satisfactory references
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section here. For anything else you can email us on: careers@savethechildren.org.uk