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At The Times and Sunday Times, B2B events are an integral part of our business. Our events serve as a vital commercial revenue driver and play a fantastic role in brand and reputation building beyond our subscriber-facing platforms. It is an exciting time to join us as our B2B events strategy continues to evolve and expand, delivering world-class experiences to professional audiences.
Your Role
We are looking for an experienced Events Marketing Lead to join us on a maternity cover basis to oversee the strategic marketing for our B2B events portfolio. In this leadership role, you will hold accountability for the end-to-end marketing strategy—from pre-launch to post-event reporting—ensuring every touchpoint meets the highest standards. You will work closely with Marketing Managers and channel teams to drive strategy, manage KPIs, and ensure senior-level stakeholder alignment.
Day to day You Will Own the end-to-end marketing strategy for flagship events, executive roundtables, C-suite dinners, and hybrid events. Define target audiences, delegate profiles, and seniority mixes to ensure high-quality attendance. Align marketing strategies with broader business, editorial, brand, and commercial objectives. Approve and oversee event creative, positioning, and brand alignment across all promotional materials. Coordinate multi-channel campaigns including email/CRM, social media, paid media, and registration journeys. Brief and guide design assets and social content to ensure consistent brand messaging. Support live event marketing and oversee post-event follow-up, including content amplification and lead handover. Serve as the primary marketing point of contact, keeping internal teams and external partners aligned on priorities and timelines. Track and report on registrations, audience quality, and channel performance to share insights with senior stakeholders. Monitor industry trends and best practices to drive innovation across the portfolio. What we're looking for from you Proven experience owning marketing strategy for B2B events or complex multi-channel campaigns. Expert stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with senior executives. Demonstrable experience translating high-level strategy into actionable plans that guide execution teams. Commercial awareness with a focus on hitting registration targets and maintaining audience quality. Exceptional project management skills to lead multiple events with overlapping timelines independently. A confident approach to content oversight, creative briefings, and final marketing approvals. An analytical mindset to interpret performance metrics and act on data-driven insights. Technical familiarity with CRM, email automation, and event marketing technology. A clear understanding of B2B audience segmentation and the landscape of executive-level summits. If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.
News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.
At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.
At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include: Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5% Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you to apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk. About The Candidate About The Company
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