Job Opportunity: Senior Marketing Executive / Junior Marketing Manager (Maternity Cover)

📌About the role

• JOB TITLE: Senior Marketing Executive / Junior Marketing Manager
• LOCATION: Based in the UK. This is a remote role, with 1x monthly in-person full day team meeting in London, which you will be required to attend. Plus options to cowork in London and near your home
• WORKING HOURS: Full-time 37.5 hours a week (core working hours 10am - 4pm). Flexi working hours and part-time applications (min. 4 days a week) considered.
• SALARY: £28-34,000, depending on experience
• START DATE: October-November 2025
• ROLE: 12 month fixed term maternity leave cover, with potential to become permanent

🌟Core competencies we look for

Empower seek these competencies across all levels. For this role, we're looking for someone who demonstrates these competencies at a senior executive level, with clear potential to develop into account management responsibilities:

• Leadership: You are developing leadership in digital communications and marketing by reading widely and exploring cause-driven communications. You proactively bring forward solutions, researching and sharing knowledge, being future-oriented and fostering innovation. You're ready to take on increasing leadership, inspiring our team and clients with ideas, trends and innovations.

• Responsibility: You are punctual, have optimal time, deadline and task management. You are self-motivated, consistent and communicate clearly and often as required by a mixture of autonomous and team remote work. You take ownership of your tasks and time, your client relationships and account performance.

• Relationships: You develop strong relationships with clients and colleagues that deliver on client-work, agency and career development for yourself and others. You plan and use time well with others, delivering the best possible outcomes and experiences. You're ready to take on primary client contact responsibilities.

• Creativity: You apply inventive solutions to your work, and apply flexible thinking, bringing forward new ideas and evolving existing ways of working. You are hands-on and able to support varying tasks from social media to strategy, while showing readiness to contribute to strategic thinking.

• Commercial Awareness: You're keen to understand what makes an organisation successful, how your role affects business performance, and to deliver profitable client work and impactful internal projects. You're developing skills in account growth and business development.

• Values-Driven: You are motivated to work for Empower as a B Corp and impact- driven organisation, with passion for working with purpose-led clients.

🎯 Role Overview

This is a brilliant opportunity for an experienced agency professional to join our team and grow into an Account Manager role through their time with Empower. You'll start with strong executive-level responsibilities while being actively developed and supported to take on account management duties. 

You'll work closely with our Account Managers, Account Directors, and Founders in our small, agile team structure. This gives you fantastic exposure to senior-level strategic thinking, client relationships, and business development opportunities.

Our hope is that you’ll be a fully fledged Account Manager by the end of the year with us, and the opportunity will have opened in the business for you to stay permanently.

Key Progression Elements:

• Start as Senior Account Executive with increasing responsibilities
• Structured development programme toward Account Manager role
• Mentoring and support from senior team members
• Clear pathway for career advancement within Empower

💼 Key ResponsibilitiesClient Relationship Management

• Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with multiple client contacts
• Act as primary point of contact for day-to-day client communications
• Support client strategic planning and contribute to account growth initiatives
• Participate in client presentations, meetings, and strategic discussions
• Identify opportunities for account expansion and additional services

Campaign Delivery & Excellence

• Lead exceptional delivery of paid and organic social media campaigns across LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram and other platforms
• Deliver insightful reporting and measurement for clients across paid and organic campaigns
• Create engaging, thumb-stopping content including copy, creative concepts, and visual direction
• Manage community engagement and audience growth strategies
• Collaborate with specialists on paid media, email marketing, and search campaigns
• Ensure all work meets Empower's high standards and is delivered on time and within budget

Strategic Contribution

• Contribute to digital strategy development for clients, working with specialists, Account Managers and Directors
• Analyse paid and organic campaign performance data and provide actionable insights
• Support knowledge transfer and training initiatives for clients
• Stay current with digital marketing trends and innovations
• Contribute strategic thinking to client challenges and opportunities

Team Leadership & Development

• Manage specialist staff, freelancers and upwards to other team members as you progress toward Account Manager role
• Take increasing ownership of client accounts and internal projects
• Collaborate effectively with Account Directors and Founders
• Contribute to agency development initiatives and best practice sharing
• Lead project teams and coordinate cross-functional delivery

Business Development Support

• Support new business development activities including proposal writing and pitching
• Identify and develop opportunities within existing client accounts
• Contribute to client retention strategies and relationship management
• Participate in networking and business development activities

Innovation & Insight

• Research and implement new tools, platforms, and methodologies
• Package insights and trends into weekly updates for team and clients
• Contribute to Empower's thought leadership and content marketing
• Test and evaluate new digital marketing approaches and technologies

Account Management Transition Throughout your first year, you'll progressively take on Account Manager responsibilities including:

• Leading client strategic planning sessions
• Managing tasks, resourcing and reporting
• Handling account budgets and profitability
• Briefing and managing the work of freelancers and Specialists
• Taking ownership of client retention and growth
• Contributing to agency strategy discussions

📊 Success Metrics

• Client Satisfaction: Maintaining high client satisfaction scores and strong relationships
• Campaign Performance: Delivering campaigns that meet or exceed client objectives and KPIs
• Account Growth: Contributing to account retention and expansion opportunities
• Team Development: Successfully mentoring junior colleagues and contributing to team performance
• Professional Growth: Demonstrating readiness for Account Manager responsibilities within 12 months
• Innovation: Bringing new ideas, tools, and approaches that enhance client work and agency capabilities