Marketing Lead

Job Title: Marketing Lead

Reports to: Head of Marketing & Digital

Responsible for: Data Marketing & CRM Lead

Contract: Permanent full-time

Hours: Min 40 hours per week to include evenings weekends and bank holidays as required

Salary: 29000 - 32000 per annum

Location: Cooper Associates County Ground Taunton

Closing date: 29 January 2026

THE ROLE

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an innovative creative and passionate Marketing Lead to join our award-winning commercial team.

The main purpose of this role is to support revenue growth at the Cooper Associates County Ground from a conference and events and cricket perspective. The role holder has management responsibility and will adopt marketing activities to grow our membership and ticketing base achieved through e-marketing and other marketing campaigns and by ensuring we promote our range of services to the right customer segments.

To give you a snapshot of what this role involves you will lead audience acquisition and retention efforts by analysing the success of engagement campaigns developing innovative multi-channel strategies to attract prospects and reporting on campaign performance. Youll be required to effectively manage relationship and events marketing and create amplification networks across external stakeholders to maximise marketing opportunities. You will oversee the invitation strategy aimed at attracting new cricket audiences and coordinate themed cricket events working closely with the wider commercial team and external partners to deliver successful events such as festivals and family days. Youll be responsible for strategic leadership of email marketing and data management including managing communication channels driving database growth through automation and profiling strategies and ensuring best practices are followed.

You will conduct audience research to identify new prospects and support the creation of targeted campaigns for ticketing and memberships with continuous analysis to optimise marketing efforts. Youll provide strategic support to the commercial department and partnership activations ensuring sponsors receive prominent exposure and that merchandise ticketing and hospitality initiatives are effectively promoted. You will produce regular reports analyse client data to inform growth strategies and support sponsorship and activation campaigns. Additional responsibilities include collaborating on digital marketing initiatives maintaining advertising materials and contributing to the overall marketing strategy with fresh ideas. Developing an events strategy for the venue managing customer feedback processes and maintaining external stakeholder relationships are also key components of this role.

ABOUT YOU

Amongst other essential criteria you will have proven experience in marketing communications or brand management with a strong track record of delivering integrated campaigns across digital social email and traditional channels. You will also have experience in event marketing and management as well as utilising data marketing and analytics to derive business insights. Expertise in developing and managing influencer or strategic partnerships CRM systems and marketing automation tools alongside working with agencies suppliers and internal stakeholders to execute campaigns is essential. Youll be skilled in producing marketing collateral hold a marketing qualification such as CIM degree or equivalent and have experience in both B2B and B2C campaigns including paid social PPC and SEO. Strong analytical organisational and communication skills along with commercial awareness and the ability to manage multiple projects effectively are crucial for success in this role.

To thrive in this role you are innovative creative proactive and highly motivated with a confident and positive attitude capable of inspiring others. You are detail-oriented and committed to delivering quality with a curious and open-minded approach driven by a passion for continuous improvement. Comfortable taking ownership and delivering results you are a skilled negotiator and influencer who adopts a collaborative working approach.

You will need to be eligible to work in the UK.

In return youll be joining a team who values everyones contribution. Youll receive a competitive salary access to health benefits and employee assistance programme continued professional development support free parking and more.

For the full list of responsibilities and criteria for the role please download the job description here: MARKETING LEAD - JOB DESCRIPTION

Youll need to refer to the job description within your application to show how you meet the essential criteria. You will also notice our Club competencies are detailed on the job description along with the proficiency levels for the role. To understand these more please download our competencies framework here: SCCC Competency Framework

To learn more about us as a Club our purpose vision and values please click this link: SCCC

HOW TO APPLY

If you are interested in this position simply complete our application form below - we use fair and safe recruitment methods therefore we dont review CVs as part of our selection process. Please provide as much detail as possible in your application responses as this is how we select candidates for the next stage of the process. For more information and support please read our Application Guidance.

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Selected candidates will be invited to a first stage interview via Microsoft Teams on the w/c 02 February 2026.

Further shortlisted candidates will be invited to a second stage interview to be held face to face at the Cooper Associates County Ground Taunton on the w/c 09 February 2026.