Senior Lifecycle Marketing Specialist

Job No.:571038

Work type:Fixed Term

• Full time
• Fixed Term until 6/3/28
• Position based at Bundoora Campus
• HEO7 salary range $106472 $117127 plus 17% superannuation

About the position

The Senior Lifecycle Marketing Specialist sits within the Marketing team in the Marketing Communications and Experience division. The role is responsible for the hands-on build delivery and ongoing optimisation of lifecycle marketing programs including automation journeys and communications that support engagement across the student lifecycle. This includes email/SMS production marketing automation and customer journey builds that support prospective student acquisition nurture conversion and retention objectives across domestic and international audiences.

This is a specialist technical role that sits at the technical heart of the Digital Experience and Innovation team. The Senior Lifecycle Marketing Specialist brings deep platform expertise strong technical discipline and a sophisticated understanding of lifecycle marketing principles to ensure that the teams automation programs journey builds and EDM/SMS communications are produced to a consistently high standard accurately efficiently and in full alignment with campaign strategy brand guidelines and audience targeting requirements.

Skills and Experience

To be considered for this position you will have;

• An undergraduate degree in Marketing or Communications or similar with at least 4 years subsequent experience; or extensive experience and management expertise; or an equivalent alternate combination of relevant knowledge training and/or experience.
• High Experience using marketing automation platforms such as Adobe Campaign Standard (ACS) Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO) Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) Marketo Braze HubSpot or similar.
• Experience building automated campaign workflows customer journeys and audience segments.
• Strong understanding of customer data audience segmentation and targeting principles.
• Understanding of privacy consent management and marketing compliance requirements.
• Sound knowledge of platform reporting tools Adobe Analytics or other marketing/data intelligence software with experience using performance data to monitor lifecycle program delivery and contribute to optimisation recommendations.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to producing high-quality Email content and campaign and data reports.
• Experience in Agile Project Management.
• Ability to edit images in Adobe Photoshop for use in email marketing campaigns.

Please refer to the Position Description for other duties skills and experiencerequiredfor this position.

PD - Senior Lifecycle Marketing Specialist .pdf

Benefits

• 17% employer contributed superannuation
• Private Health Insurance discount
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How to apply

Closing date:By 11:55pm Sunday 27th September 2026

Recruitment Enquiries:

Only candidates withFullWorkingRights in Australiamay apply for this position.

Pleasesubmitan online application ONLY and include the following documents:

• A cover letter outlining why you are interested and what skills and experience you bring to the role.
• An up-to-date resume.

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