Marketing Executive
Location LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
department MARKETING
Type full time
Minimum Experience MID-LEVEL
What is Footballco?
Footballco is the world’s biggest dedicated football content and media business. Reaching more than 400m football fans across the world each month, and with a growing roster of brands including Goal, Voetbalzone, and Spox, no one else has our reach or depth of understanding within the game. With over 300 employees globally, we’re a young company with some established brands and serious investment behind us. Our future starts now…
What is Mundial?
MUNDIAL reminds you why you love football. A quarterly magazine, best in class social publisher, merchandise specialist and multi-award winning audio producer, MUNDIAL has recently launched CLUB MUNDIAL, a community based subscription plan that will feature all of the above and more.
What’s the role about?
Footballco is looking to hire a driven Marketing Executive to help take MUNDIAL to the next level in 2023 and beyond. The magazine has recently launched Club Mundial, a subscription service, and the goal is to drive awareness and conversion of our football lifestyle audience across all platforms and mediums.
To do that, we need you. You’ll take ownership of execution of key marketing initiatives, develop new acquisition channels and drive marketing blueprint development. You will report into the Head of Marketing and collaborate with the Mundial editorial, creative, design and social media teams, working hand in hand to optimise product and go-to-market strategies.
At Footballco we are building a modern media company that entertains & informs users with credible and original news, reporting, and content from our portfolio of consumer-facing football publishers. A company that services the fan’s desire for knowledge, a global publisher that can ensure the best content travels to fans everywhere.
This position is based in our London offices. We offer competitive compensation and a bonus scheme. We have a hybrid working model enabling you to flexibly manage your time working from our offices or from home.
You Will
Take ownership of execution of key marketing initiatives, including organic and/or paid campaign planning, managing workflows, and reporting to drive optimization
Undertake marketing and targeting experiments, optimising landing pages for new and returning customers to drive results such as conversion or newsletter sign ups
Leverage customer insights from surveys, focus groups and internal data to develop targeting tools such as segments and personas
Work with internal teams to experiment and iterate on approaches for driving customers from the Goal ecosystem into Club Mundial; hands on execution to formalise acquisition blueprint for this channel
Assist Head of Marketing in defining and operationalizing new marketing tools and methodologies across creative, targeting and analytics workstreams, taking ownership of projects as required
Work with broader Mundial / Footballco social, design, editorial and performance marketing teams to track performance, extract insights and takeaways, and ensure learnings are shared across relevant teams
Experiment with new marketing channels; ideate, drive buy in, own and deliver new organic marketing initiatives as required
Report on the effectiveness of activation campaigns using pre-determined KPIs
YOU HAVE
3+ years of experience in delivering performance, paid or platform marketing initiatives; startup experience preferred
Direct to consumer content, consumer product or ecommerce experience preferred
BA in Marketing or related field
Proficiency in paid and organic social
Understanding of marketing planning, management, and measurement
Analytical mindset with ability to report on, manage and use digital KPIs
Ability to project manage in a fast paced environment
Demonstrable follow through and self starter mentality
Creative with a passion for optimisation
You are
Team player - talent for collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and ensuring alignment
Creative problem solver - you love working with a team to creatively solve challenges
Analytical mindset - you derive insights from data and use it to improve results
Strategic thinker - a focus on the goal and ability to manage resources to deliver it
A passion for getting stuff done - no job too big or too small
Attention to detail - ability to connect the dots and multi-task in a deadline-driven atmosphere
Strong leadership skills - Ability to deliver clear recommendations and manage execution
Footballco is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.