Marketing Manager

Job summary

Marketing Manager
£65,000 per annum
Bedford
12 Month FTC
Hybrid Working

Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Marketing Manager on a 12-month FTC. The Marketing Manager leads partnerships marketing, ensuring the UK Partnerships Team is well supported to deliver business priorities in their work in each England region and in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This includes developing, coordinating and delivering marketing plans and messaging, as well as the development of final assets such as digital, events, campaign toolkits, and ensuring consistency in all touchpoints.

The role will work closely with the Senior Campaigns Marketing Manager to plan, manage and measure MoneyHelper marketing campaigns utilising paid media. Maximising reach and engagement with target audiences through the co-ordination of low- and no- cost channels to ensure integrated campaigns.

You will also work closely with the Senior Campaigns Marketing Manager to help build, grow and manage our consumer facing brand, MoneyHelper and our corporate brand MaPS, across campaigns, communications and channels, to build and drive awareness with consumers (B2C), partners (B2B2C) and stakeholders (B2B).

Job description

• Work as one team with partnership managers across the UK, including attending team meetings. You will be integral to scoping and developing an overall marketing activity plan to support their work, ensuring all their communication and engagement requirements are captured and assets for collateral, digital, video, events, and campaign toolkits are delivered

• You will be the conduit for ensuring key corporate messages, business objectives and opportunities such syndication of MoneyHelper tools, are shared in a timely way with the partnership managers, and support partnership managers to report back on their activities and impact.
• Act as brand guardian, and support the design team with requests, project managing and monitoring all work produced to ensure creative excellence and adherence to brand guidelines are maintained, conduct regular reviews and promote best practice across the business.

• Play a full role in the brand and marketing team, being flexible to support across the team as needed, and undertaking any other duties as reasonably required. To succeed in this position, you must demonstrate strong B2B marketing expertise, including in paid campaigns, as well as a strong understanding of brand. Experience working as a Marketing Campaigns Manager or Brand Manager in a similar position is an advantage.

• Manage campaigns, optimising activity in real time to hit campaign objectives. Working with media, creative and in-house teams to measure performance and improve impact.

• Collaborating with all our channel owners you will help develop, coordinate and execute marketing plans, for all required campaigns using paid, no and low-cost channels, to deliver communication excellence and high audience engagement. This will include co-ordinating digital marketing across Social – X and Facebook, website, SEO optimisation, chat and WhatsApp, content and tools syndication

Person specification

Essential:

• Marketing qualification (e.g. degree, diploma, professional qualification) and/or equivalent work experience and able to demonstrate learning and progression on the job.
  
  
• Experience in a marketing, brand, or campaign management role in a complex organisation
  
  
• Demonstrable experience in developing and executing successful marketing plans to engage audiences effectively. Experience managing B2B or ‘B2B2C’ marketing an advantage, including paid campaign experience. B2C experience also desirable
  
  
• Experience of digital campaign management set up, optimisation and analysis is essential
  
  
• Demonstrable experience in delivering high-impact campaigns and/or marketing and/or brand activity utilising paid, no and low-cost channels and working with multiple channel owners.
  
  
• Strong knowledge and experience in market research and insight, KPI evaluation techniques and the ability to use data to identify opportunities and improve performance.
  
  
• Experience in writing business cases and procuring agencies and marketing/communications services.
  
  
• A strong interest in working at MaPS and a wider interest in and/or knowledge of financial wellbeing.

Desirable:

• Comfortable using traditional and digital marketing approaches.
  
  
• Marketing experience within the public sector and an understanding of government spend controls and processes.

Benefits

About Us
The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.

At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting, and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves with our values:

• Caring
  We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform.
• Connecting
  We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections.
• Transforming
  We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.

Our Inclusive Working Environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”

Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.

What We Offer

• Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
• Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (employer contribution up to 10% of your salary)
• Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
• Life assurance scheme
• Give as you earn scheme
• Employee assistance programme (EAP)
• PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
• Enhanced family and sick pay
• Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
• Recognition Scheme
• Discounts portal to numerous retailers

Flexible Working
At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per month. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

Recruitment Process:

1. Initial Review: Our recruiter will review your CV. If it looks like a good fit, they'll reach out to arrange a call.
2. Hiring Manager Review: If the recruiter thinks you're suitable, your CV will be passed to the hiring manager, who will decide whether to invite you for an interview.
3. Interview: If selected, you'll participate in a virtual interview. This single-stage process allows you to demonstrate your skills and experience through competency-based questions. This will also require you to deliver a short presentation.

Career Development
In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.

Reserve List
If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.

Application Process
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: recruitment@maps.org.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.

Job Reference: MaPS01219
Close Date: 3/7/2026

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Marty Sikora
• Email : marty.sikora@reed.com

Recruitment team

• Email : moneyand.pensions@reed.com