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Digital Marketing Manager
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Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£50,100
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
Our predicted code SOC 2432 (74% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £50,100, and MARSHALL MOTOR GROUP LIMITED is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the published rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
About the role
Job Title: Digital Marketing Manager
Salary: £46,700 - £56,000 + 15% Bonus + Benefits!
Location: Hybrid role, with 2–3 days per month at the Milton Keynes head office
Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours per week (9:00am – 5:30pm)
Job Status: Permanent
At cinch our mission is simple - to remove the faff from buying and owning cars, giving customers more choice, with more ease.
Already the UK’s largest online used car retailer, we’re expanding our offering with an exciting roadmap of online and physical retail solutions - including faff-free car servicing at over 100 locations across the country.
We’re part of Constellation Automotive Group - a family of brands that also includes We Buy Any Car, British Car Auctions (BCA) and Marshall Motor Group. Together, cinch and Marshall operate as Constellation Retail - bringing together 100+ years of motoring know-how at 130+ stores (Marshall) with a market-leading digital experience from a much-admired brand (cinch).
The road ahead for you is clear. Join us and you’ll get a unique opportunity to grow your career across two leading automotive brands that are really going places. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Role Overview:
To manage and optimise our digital marketing activation and strategy across key digital channels, including Paid Social, Display, Online Video (including YouTube) and Affiliates. The role acts as a central strategic lead for these channels, translating business objectives into effective media strategies, while managing internal teams and agency partners to activate and deliver against agreed performance targets.
Operating with a high degree of autonomy, the role combines strong technical expertise with commercial and analytical rigor to continuously improve channel effectiveness and contribution to core KPIs.
This role sits in the central marketing team, working across both the cinch and Marshall brands.
What you’ll be working on:
Channel strategy & performance:
- Lead the Paid Social/Affiliates Execs to deliver best-in-class activations, overseeing the structure, creation and optimisation of campaigns. Ensuring activity is aligned to business objectives and performance targets.
- Work with the Media Agency to help shape our Display/YouTube strategy including Programmatic and Native.
- Ensure campaigns are pacing and performing to plan, proactively working with teams to delivery agreed KPIs within budget.
- Support with the fielding of creative production and supply
Measurement, Insight & Optimisation:
- Responsible for overseeing all measurement strategy associated with the aforementioned channels, including reporting (weekly, quarterly, channel related and creative focused), in addition to tracking and tagging.
- Work alongside the Head of Digital Marketing & Marketing Effectiveness to develop forecasting and performance models (eg. conversions, revenue) to inform planning, optimisation and decision making.
- Manage the programme for test & learn across channels ensuring results are statistically significant and taking learnings to ensure continuous campaign improvements.
- Support the Head of with slideware production for senior team presentations and business reviews with their associated channels.
Team leadership & development:
- Line manage Paid Social and Affiliates Executives, providing clear direction, prioritisation, coaching and performance management
- Support development of team capability, ensuring best practice, learning and progression across channels
Agency & Supplier Management:
Governance & Ways of working:
Relationships in cinch:
- Internal stakeholders: Brand, Creative, Product, Engineering, Content, Finance, Procurement
- External stakeholders: Media agency, platform partners (Meta, Google, TikTok), affiliate networks and suppliers
Engagement involves regular performance‑based discussions, technical explanation and collaborative problem‑solving.
Things we look for in you:
- Strong hands-on experience (4+ years) in Paid Social (including Meta, TikTok and Reddit), as well as Display, Programmatic and YouTube experience with a particular focus on direct response/performance campaigns for direct-to-consumer businesses.
- Solid technical understanding and a head for numbers to create practical and value models (Conversions, Revenue) and performance forecasting
- Experience managing agencies and/or external media partners
- People management experience, including coaching and performance development
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills are essential and experience using analytics tools such as Adobe or Google.
- Good understanding of platform pixels, how they collect data, and how they can be used to optimise activity and build audiences.
- A data-driven mindset and the ability to strategise with cross-functional teams.
- Work collaboratively and proactively with multiple teams across concurrent projects.
- Experience with lift studies (e.g. Brand lift/Conversion lift studies etc.) and measurement (e.g., pre bid vs post bid verification etc).
- Affiliate marketing experience, either via direct relationships or via networks (e.g. Awin, Webgains).
- Organic Social/influencer experience.
- Experience with Customer Data Platforms (CDPs).
- Experience managing end-to-end finance & procurement processes.
- Higher maths background/expertise (regression analysis etc).
Formal qualifications are not essential, provided equivalent experience is demonstrated
Desirable:
cinch and rewards
cinch’s benefits programme sees that our people are supported both in and out of work. That’s what a faff-free life is all about.
We offer:
And so much more!
cinch and you:
In making the most out of a career at cinch you need to be curious, creative, and collaborative. See, we are putting you in the driver’s seat, in control of your career and ready to drive your own development.
There’s no bureaucracy, no hierarchy, just an environment with values that bring us together and a purpose that sets us apart. Join us as we continue to accelerate, defy expectations, and revolutionise an entire industry
Diversity and Inclusion:
cinch wants to help all kinds of people in the UK find and buy a car. So it makes good sense to have all kinds of people working with us on the challenge. Conversations and the decisions they lead to are better for featuring different voices. Representation matters.
And doing your job while not being your authentic self is not faff-free. Being free to be the best of who you are as you soar to professional greatness is the kind of business we commit to creating, as one.
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