Marketing Executive

At Clarion, our people are at the absolute heart of what we do. We’re proud that our core values of PASSION, CARE, IMAGINATION, and TRUST define the way we carry out our work across all of our teams.

If you share our values and want to be a part of a successful, dynamic, and creative global business then we want to hear from you.

The Opportunity:

We’re looking for a proactive Marketing Executive to join Clarion’s Retail department, working across a standout portfolio of premium trade events. Clarion Retail is the home of five prestigious market-leading trade events in the UK; Top Drawer Spring, Top Drawer Autumn, Home & Gift, January Furniture Show, Manchester Furniture Show, plus Retail Reveal, the online digital platform for the Retail industry. Clarion Retail is a fast-paced, exciting environment to work in with team members who are passionate about delivering engaging, productive and inspiring events.

The role offers the opportunity to make a visible impact across the brands, develop skills within a supportive team, and grow your career within Retail and Clarion’s wider events portfolio We are looking for a competent, creative marketer with analytical skills to work within the marketing team delivering integrated campaigns, ideally with experience of events or similar environments. The ideal candidate will be highly organised, brand focused, analytically curious, creative and with a customer centric approach.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of customer-centric marketing strategies via information gathering
• Contribute to the delivery of multi-channel marketing campaigns on time and to budget
• Create compelling content across channels including website, email, social, print and digital
• Maintain and update event websites. Optimising customer journeys using tools such as Clarity and GA4
• Plan, implement and analyse engaging email campaigns
• Support the delivery of end-to-end paid digital campaigns across search, display, and social, managing budgets and optimising performance to drive registrations.
• Manage organic and paid social media activity and design.
• Write clear design briefs and collaborate with the creative team to deliver campaign assets
• Build strong relationships with partners, sponsors, media, influencers and exhibitors
• Act as a point of contact with the PR agency
• Liaise with Marketing Operations and report on campaign performance, providing insight and recommendations
• Support onsite marketing and event delivery during live events.

Knowledge, Skills & Behaviours:

• Proven experience of delivering successful multi-channel marketing campaigns
• Strong copywriting, proofreading and analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience building email campaigns and using marketing automation (Pardot desirable)
• Understanding of customer data, segmentation and reporting (Treasure Data desirable)
• Confident working with performance tracking and response reporting

About Clarion Events

Clarion Events is one of the world’s leading event organisers, producing and delivering innovative and market-leading events since 1947. (https://clarionevents.com/welcome)

Clarion Events embrace diversity and equal opportunities in all that we do. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Clarion is private equity backed and owned by Blackstone. Blackstone is one of the world’s leading global investment funds, investing capital for the long term in order to build successful, resilient businesses. (https://www.blackstone.com/)

Our purpose is to deliver exceptional customer outcomes and experiences, by making every connection count.

Our vision is we want every one of our products to be a market leader in customer satisfaction and delight.

Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• End of year wellbeing shutdown (closed for the last week of the year)
• Employees on a permanent or fixed-term contract are gifted an extra day of leave that can be used for a celebration of your choosing, e.g. birthday, Eid, Diwali, etc.
• Summer Hours in August (3pm finish on Fridays)
• Helping Our World (HOW) Days – one paid day per quarter to carry out charity work
• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• Wellbeing Library (MYNDUP)
• Mentoring Programme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free on-site gym and shower facilities
• Free eyesight tests
• Free flu vaccination – offered on site once a year for all employees

Our Values

Passion

We deliver all our events with passion for people, the environment and businesses. We form connections with those who are just as passionate about what they do as we are. We always strive to exceed expectations and celebrate success. We love what we do, and it shows.

CARE

We care about our people and our products and work tirelessly to achieve lasting connections and satisfaction for ourselves, our customers and the businesses they support. We really get people - everyone is welcome.

Imagination

Everything is possible. We constantly challenge the status quo and create amazing experiences and opportunities. We take huge satisfaction in solving problems. As open-minded and fun-loving people, the sky is our limit.

TRUST

We trust our skills, people and partners to deliver extraordinary events our customers have come to rely on. We support everyone around us and always learn through our experiences. We are honest and straight forward. You can always rely on us.

Equal Opportunities

We encourage employees to be open and confident and recognise that every member of the team makes a vital contribution.

Clarion embraces equality, diversity and inclusion and seeks to promote these principles in all of our business activities.

When recruiting new employees or providing opportunities for promotion, we will:

• Recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of background, and make the best use of their talents;

• Ensure that no person is unlawfully discriminated against;

• Select the best person for the role based on their skills, qualifications and abilities.

This statement sets out our commitment to equal opportunities and to preventing discrimination in the workplace.