Marketing Executive, Music, Oxford

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About Music Publishing at Oxford University Press

OUP began publishing printed sheet music in 1923 and is now one of the longest-established and most respected music publishers in the world. Eminent composers published in those early days included William Walton, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Constant Lambert. Today, OUP is proud to publish many world-renowned composers including Bob Chilcott, Cecilia McDowall, John Rutter, Sarah Quartel, Gabriel Jackson, Howard Skempton and Mack Wilberg, among many others. Our award-winning educational books for young instrumentalists, including Piano Time and Fiddle Time , are loved by music teachers and students around the world.

About the Role

We are excited to be looking for a Marketing Executive to join the Sheet Music team. In this diverse and wide-ranging role, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering marketing campaigns with a strong digital focus for our products and composers, and ensuring marketing plans and priorities are aligned with wider music strategy.

You'll be working with a range of internal and external stakeholders, including other teams within Sheet Music, the wider Academic Marketing team, composers, music industry bodies, and designers. A typical day might include contributing ideas to a team meeting, writing the brief and copy for a digital advert, creating a graphic or video for use on social media, and writing a report on the success of a recent campaign.

Key duties of the role will include:

• Developing global multi-channel marketing campaigns to promote products and composers.
• Delivering marketing plans according to agreed timescales and budgets, using a range of primarily digital channels including email, digital and social advertising, events / conferences, social media and web content.
• Maximizing the marketing potential of events, networks and organizations within the sheet music sector.
• Measuring the success of marketing activities and continually improving outcomes though analysis and innovation.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

You'll be passionate about marketing with experience of delivering effective campaigns that support strategic marketing objectives, and have an enthusiasm for music (as demonstrated by your education, work, or personal hobbies and interests).

You will have:

• The ability to work independently to plan and deliver effective marketing campaigns.
• Experience in digital marketing tactics and using social media.
• A customer-oriented approach.
• Analytical skills and experience of using data to drive results.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize effectively.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience of working collaboratively within teams and with external stakeholders.
• A demonstrable interest in music.

This advert may close earlier than the stated deadline, so please apply as soon as possible.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days'holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

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