Marketing Executive

At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors. Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.

We have an excellent opportunity for a Marketing Executive to join our Investment Vector Marketing EMEA Team. This is a 12 month fixed term contract, covering a parental leave and will be based in Milan.

Multi-lingual skills are desirable (Italian and English essential).

About the Department

The Investments Vector provides a broad range of investment products and solutions to suit clients’ needs, now and in the future. We market our investment products through two core client channels:

1. Wholesale: Financial Advisers, Wealth Managers, Discretionary Fund Managers and Global Banks
2. Institutional: Pension Funds, Family Offices, Charities and Endowments, Insurance and Sovereign Wealth Funds

The Marketing Executive Italy will support the delivery of a wider ranging set of marketing initiatives and plans focused on delivering the commercial and brand outcomes abrdn seeks to achieve.

About the Role

In collaboration with the Marketing Director EMEA build the Marketing Strategy and build the operating model to deliver including:

• Managing the ongoing relationship with the Head of Distribution and the Distribution team members
• Supporting the development of the annual marketing plan and activity aligned to the wider EMEA and Global plans and objectives

Support and inform the delivery of brand, thematic and product campaigns within the markets:

• Adapt and roll out centralized campaigns: campaign design & structure for the markets
• Adopt global standards and processes and embed best methodologies across the markets
• Design campaigns utilizing the full communications mix – PR, Advertising, Events, Digital, Emails etc.
• Maximize Distribution adoption of content and campaigns ensuring follow up to capitalize on opportunities

Digital Marketing Strategy roll out, with the support of digital colleagues:

• Align country and channel strategy to always-on digital marketing strategy
• Develop and implement a direct email strategy in conjunction with Marketing Automation colleagues
• Define a Social Media strategy with Digital colleagues
• Collaborate with Search & Social Media colleagues on Paid Search (PPC) strategy as well as support on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) roll out across websites
• Ensure local content is developed according to digital consumption
• Fully digest digital activity dashboards to ensure all digital activity is appropriate and where applicable, work closely with digital colleagues to identify optimizations for future activity

Event strategy and management:

• Develop an event strategy (both proprietary and sponsored Third party) aligned to product priorities, along with Distribution
• Oversee operational side of events

Deliver Marketing Activity and initiatives to time, scope and budget with a focus on maximizing opportunities and return on investment.

Supervise marketing content production from Investment Capability Marketing team. Assist with re-purposing global marketing content; ensuring materials are revised to meet local compliance and brand requirements; work closely with channel marketing managers to develop new and innovative marketing collateral to support initiatives. Ensure suite of content is available to meet ‘always on’ promotion and campaign needs.

Press agency relationship management, maximizing abrdn press coverage on focus themes and funds.

Discover opportunities to improve marketing processes across the EMEA Marketing team.

Ensure all EMEA Marketing activity follows global standards and processes.

About the Candidate Requirements

A marketing professional with early stage experience working as part of a channel marketing team. Highly motivated, flexible, teammate, great attention to details, personal initiative and ability to carry out projects in autonomy are a must with a proven B2B / B2C track record.

Understanding of the asset management industry and sophisticated client engagement. Knowledge of financial markets, preferably gained within an asset manager or financial services firm, as well as of different asset classes and investment styles. Experience in the delivery of multi-channel marketing campaigns on and offline.

Experience of working alongside Distribution and developing collaborative take to market and conversion plans. Experience of working as part of a cross functional project team to deliver a common goal. Sound organizational and scheduling skills.

Competent digital literacy (ideally SalesForce, Eloqua, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet) to perform job duties listed above.

Teamwork: Displays willingness to collaborate and learn from others, including peers.

Commerciality: Takes steps to understand the market, competitor activity and market.

Experience of working in a business to business industry is desirable. Multi-lingual skills are desirable (Italian and English are a must). Previous experience of working with colleagues from different countries is desirable.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At abrdn we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do.