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Marketing Managerat CDW Careers (UK)

Job ID: 
R24_00002300
Team: 
Marketing
Post Date: 
01 Nov 2024
Location: 
London, United Kingdom
Eligible For Remote Work: 
Security Clearance Required: 
No

Description

Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we’re the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.

BACKGROUND  TO THE ROLE 

Bring your career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your job and future. With revenues of over £1 billion, CDW UK is a leading supplier of IT solutions and services to a broad range of commercial and public sector customers globally.   

 

This role incorporates business and marketing strategy with planning and delivering impactful and experiential marketing campaigns. You will use business acumen to balance the needs of CDW, our partners, solutions and services to drive incremental pipeline and investment objectives, whilst simultaneously keeping a sharp eye on cost, value and ROI. The successful candidate will be expected to think and act both strategically and tactically demonstrating an understanding of the broader market and what content matters to our customer audience, along with what experiences we want to create to engage our customers and prospects. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

As a Marketing Manager, you’ll be responsible for owning the planning and execution of a subset of CDW’s partners. You’ll be expected to think and act both strategically and tactically demonstrating an understanding of the broader market and what content matters to our customer audience, along with what experiences we want to create to engage our customers and prospects. This position requires a high degree of cross-team collaboration whilst also having the ability to work independently. You will need to ensure the flexibility to attend partner conferences, as well as run events and meetings across the UK as needed. 

 

What you’ll do: 

 

  • Partner Planning Leveraging the full marketing mix, develop marketing plans to drive outcomes set out in the business plan. 

  • Budget - Pitch strategic marketing plans to partners to secure necessary budget, ensuring all activity is compliant for funding claims, and monitor cost/value. 

  • Execution Work with stakeholders to create compelling content/storytelling, either copywriting yourself or briefing into agencies for delivery. 

  • Campaign ManagementProject manage all stages of partner marketing and ensure effective implementation of all plans from conceptualisation stage. 

  • Lead Generation - Build a pipeline of activity for aligned partner(s). 

  • Analysis - Collate, measure, and analyse results of all campaigns making ongoing recommendations for future campaigns to drive optimum return on investment. 

  • Compliance - Ensure a comprehensive understanding of aligned partner marketing schemes and guidelines, ensuring compliance at all times 

  • Funding Claims - Work with the Marketing Operations team to ensure all MDF claims have required Proof of Executions, Proof of Cost and Proof of Performance, and that the claims are submitted in a timely manner, ahead of deadlines to ensure zero exposure to the business. 

  • Relationships Maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in CDW, Partners and Suppliers 

  • Agency Management – work with approved marketing agencies and/or CDW’s internal studio to help drive best practice and best value for CDW and partners

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE 

  • Either bachelor’s degree in marketing/business discipline or a minimum of 3 years’ experience in the IT channel for a partner/reseller across marketing, category management, sales or partner management.  

  • Goal oriented with a strong bias toward action and tangible results. 

  • Strategic thinker who can also balance execution in a fast-paced environment.  

  • Proven track record of Partner Marketing strategies and investment models. 

  • Evidence of managing virtual teams across a broad set of stakeholders in a manner that holds individuals accountable in order to deliver to objectives.  

  • Strong ability to listen, translate and articulate requirements. 

  • Planning, organisation, reporting and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. 

  • Commercially aware with a keen analytical eye.  

  • Events management experience. 

  • Briefing and copywriting experience. 

  • History of managing multiple projects/deadlines simultaneously; ability to set priorities and be comfortable/flexible in changing environments; proven track record of taking ownership. 

  • Microsoft productivity suite – O365, Teams, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PPT. 

  • Excellent interpersonal & communication skills. 

  • CRM/Marketing Automation experience an advantage (especially HubSpot). 

  • Passionate, professional, with a proactive ‘can-do’ attitude at all times. 

ABOUT CDW 

CDW is arguably one of the smallest “big companies” you will ever work for. We believe that it’s the people that make ‘IT’ happen and that by having a culture of passionate people with clear and common goals, we can achieve amazing things. 

 

Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you’ll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self—and your best ideas—to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving—and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape. 

Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small. 

What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers. 
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you’ll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self—and your best ideas—to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving—and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
 

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