Job Description
Job Description
We have an exciting new opportunity for a Brand Campaign Manager to join our dedicated Brand team at AJ Bell, based from our head office in Salford Quays. The Brand Campaign Manager will play a key role in shaping and executing compelling broad-reach advertising campaigns, to contribute towards AJ Bell’s ambitious brand and commercial objectives.
What you’ll be doing:
- Executing our brand advertising strategies for broad reach channels (primarily AV and audio).
- Managing creative production and agency relationships for AV and audio.
- Running test and learn opportunities with our media and creative agencies, from concept through to execution and measurement.
- Monitoring and reporting on key brand health metrics and KPIs.
- Using customer, competitor and industry research to inform future plans.
- Helping to manage the campaign budgets, ensuring work is planned and delivered within budget.
What we’re looking for:
- Solid experience in brand and/or campaign management, with at least 3 years in broad reach advertising.
- Proven experience in managing creative agencies to deliver high-scale advertising productions.
- A thorough understanding of broad reach media channels and planning.
- A people person who can easily build relationships internally and externally.
- Strong organisation skills and the ability to work to demanding deadlines.
- A problem solver who is insight-led, commercially aware and has excellent attention to detail.
- An excellent communicator that can influence cross-functional teams.
About us:
AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 644,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £103.3 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.
Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.
Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK’s ‘Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2025 named a Great Place to Work®.
At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.
Our perks and benefits:
- Competitive starting salary
- Starting holiday entitlement of 27 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service and a holiday buy and sell scheme
- A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 8%
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual free share awards scheme
- Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
- Health Cash Plan – provided by SimplyHealth
- Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
- Free on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Bike loan scheme
- Sick pay+ pledge
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
- Discounted nursery fees at Kids Planet on Exchange Quay
- Loans for travel season tickets
- Death in service scheme
- Paid time off for volunteer work
- Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
- Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
- Free parking at Exchange Quay (Subject to availability)
- Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
- Ongoing technical training
- Professional qualification support
- Talent development programmes
- Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
- Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
- Casual dress code
- Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals
Hybrid working:
At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That’s why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.
AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we’d love to speak to you.
