Places Leisure is part of the Places for People Group, we're changing lives by creating active places and healthier people for communities to thrive. As one of the UK's leading Social Enterprises, Places for People believes it's people who make a community, which is why we build homes, deliver services and create opportunities that help communities flourish.
At Places for People, we hire People, not numbers. We're looking for individuals who share our values, do the right thing, support their communities and are motivated to grow. We apply the same philosophy to our colleagues as we do to our communities, ensuring everyone feels valued, supported and empowered to succeed. Here, you're more than just a colleague, you're part of our cause. Join a community that cares about you.
So, what are you waiting for? Join a community that cares about you!
More about your role
We're looking for a Marketing Executive to join our Marketing team and support the delivery of estates transformation and business development projects across Places Leisure.
This is a fast paced and varied role, supporting one of the largest investment programmes in the sector. With over 100 leisure centres across the UK and around 50 currently undergoing refurbishment or transformation projects, you'll play a key role in delivering marketing and communications activity that keeps customers informed and engaged throughout periods of change. Projects may include centre refurbishments, new facility openings, contract mobilisations, product launches, and service transitions.
Working closely with marketing specialists, operational teams, suppliers, and clients, you'll coordinate marketing activity across multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring campaigns are delivered on time, stakeholders remain informed, and project plans stay on track. From supporting customer communications and launch activity to monitoring performance and providing project updates, you'll help deliver successful outcomes that enhance customer experience and support business growth.
This is a 12 month FTC role.
Essential Criteria
Previous experience working in a physical locations multisite environment within hospitality, retail or leisure sector.
Delivering marketing campaigns, communications programmes, or project-based marketing activity.
Coordinating multiple projects or campaigns while managing competing priorities and deadlines.
Creating and delivering customer communications across digital and offline channels.
Supporting project delivery through planning, coordination, reporting, and performance tracking.
More about you
You'll be an organised marketing professional with experience supporting campaigns, communications programmes, or project-based marketing activity. Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, you'll be able to manage multiple priorities, balance competing deadlines, and coordinate activity across several projects at once.
You'll have experience creating customer communications across digital and offline channels and be confident working with a wide range of stakeholders, including operational teams, suppliers, clients, and external partners. With a strong eye for detail and a structured approach to delivery, you'll ensure marketing activity is delivered accurately, on brand, and on time.
We're looking for someone who enjoys working in a project focused environment and can support change and transformation initiatives through effective planning, coordination, reporting, and communication.
Benefits
We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:
Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
Bonus scheme for colleagues at 2%
35 days holiday (including bank holidays) with the option to buy or sell days
Healthcare cashback plan for everyday medical costs, with private GP and health support services available
Comprehensive wellbeing support including counselling, flu jabs, our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and access to our Wellbeing Hub, supporting your mental, physical and financial wellbeing
Access to Our Place Rewards, offering discounts and savings on groceries, travel, shopping, home products and other lifestyle purchases
Ongoing training, professional qualifications, internal development programmes and career progression opportunities
Recognition programmes including Star Awards and Colleague Awards, celebrating achievements and recognising great work
Strong focus on inclusion, wellbeing and colleague engagement
Free membership to Places Gyms
Life Assurance to provide financial security for your loved ones, alongside access to will writing services to help you plan for the future with confidence
What's next?
If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and accessible recruitment process for all.
We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We're happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.
If you are a Places for People customer and you're looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team on skillsemployment@placesforpeople.co.uk.
We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.
If you are a recruitment agency please note we operate a PSL and do not take cold calls Safeguarding
At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect.
We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment.
By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities
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