Head of Digital

As an expert, would you like a newly created Head of Digital role offering hybrid working, and the opportunity to make an impact and instigate effective change with your own ideas within an award winning, innovative business?

An exciting, brand-new Head of Digital opportunity has arisen at a well-established, industry leading membership organisation where you will be responsible for developing and delivering the digital marketing strategy for the business to drive growth, whilst ensuring they are at the forefront of new techniques, and championing a data-driven culture within your team.

Initially you will have the chance to review and audit everything, bringing your ideas to the table to help increase engagement, improve all channels, and create change. You will also be leading across all platforms, websites and apps, to maximise user experience and ensure acquisition, retention and engagement of members. As part of this crucial role, you will lead your team of specialists, manage agency relationships, and be a key member of the senior leadership team.

As a Head of Digital your new role will involve:

Developing and owning the strategy working with senior stakeholders
Making innovative, strategic recommendations to improve performance
Overseeing the analysis of data to provide insights and drive decisions
Being accountable for the development, improvement, and management of all platforms, websites and apps
Leading the CRO programme to grow conversion performance across all products
Taking the lead on the overall SEO / GEO strategy, setting a clear roadmap and defining KPIs to deliver improvements and ensure all platforms are are AI proof
Tracking and analysing KPIs, delivering dashboards for stakeholders
Leading, managing, developing, and motivating your team of specialists
Budget management and ensuring it is used effectively
Managing relationships with agencies and tech partners, maximising value and ensuring all projects are completed on time
Working alongside other Head of stakeholders to deliver a cohesive strategy
Ensuring legal and regulatory compliance across all activities and platforms
I am very interested in speaking with candidates who have experience working as a Head of Digital; Head of Digital Marketing; Digital Marketing Director, Director; Marketing Lead, and who have a background in B2C marketing (the travel, leisure, tourism sectors would be very attractive). Experience working with content management systems (CMS), websites and apps, Google Analytics (GA4), Google Search Console, SEMRush, as well as strong knowledge across SEO, PPC, CRO, content, social media and e-mail marketing is essential. An understanding of UX principles, A/B testing and web optimisation techniques, and AI (and how it impacts what you do) is key too.

Salary for this position is competitive (depending on level of experience), plus car allowance

Benefits include: hybrid working (mainly from home), discounts on retail, holidays and gym, assistance towards training courses, private health scheme and more!

If you drive parking can be found a short walk from the office, but if you don't want to drive, their office is located within 5 minutes walk from the train station - so very easy to get to!

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed