Director of Marketing Operations
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Define the long-term MarTech roadmap and establish an operating model across marketing, sales, and product handoffs. Oversee Salesforce, HubSpot, and Iterable architecture to drive improvements in attribution, lead routing, and lifecycle automation while ensuring operational resilience under PRA and FCA standards. Set governance for transactional communications, manage the marketing preference centre, and build vulnerable-customer routing into the comms stack. Own CMS strategy, web performance, and cookie consent compliance across the estate. Define the commercial reporting framework to improve revenue visibility and partner with Technology on CRM enhancements. Operate the end-to-end financial promotion approval workflow as the named operational delegate of the SMF holder, maintaining the Marketing Risk & Controls matrix. Achieve AI-driven productivity gains while enforcing pre-publication review and content provenance logging.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years in marketing operations
- 3+ years at Director or Head of level
- Deep expertise managing a marketing stack at scale: Salesforce, marketing automation (HubSpot, Iterable or equivalent), CMS, consent management, attribution and analytics
- Hands-on experience in a UK FCA/PRA-regulated firm
- Strong commercial acumen and experience enabling frontline teams through systems and data
- Excellent lateral leadership skills — able to influence without direct authority and drive cross-functional alignment
- Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands-on ownership when required
Desired Qualifications
- Experience operationalising AI in customer-facing marketing in a regulated context
- Revenue Operations experience in B2B SaaS
- Affiliate channel governance and third-party risk management in a regulated firm
- US lending or international expansion exposure
- Operational Resilience operating experience
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