About the Role
Marketing Operations plays a critical role in creating the foundations for marketing success. This role will own how marketing data is structured, analysed, and activated across the business, enabling teams to make insight-led decisions that drive performance and commercial growth. You will lead a specialist Data & Analytics team responsible for reporting, data integration, data governance and customer insight across a growing marketing technology stack.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the Data & Analytics strategy within Marketing Operations
- Manage and develop a high-performing team, setting clear priorities and standards
- Act as the senior lead for marketing data, aligning analytics with commercial goals
- Design and implement scalable, standardised processes for data management, reporting, and insight delivery
- Drive operational efficiency by identifying and removing bottlenecks, streamlining workflows, and accelerating speed to market
- Own prioritisation and delivery of analytics workload, improving task planning, automate processes, and improve team capacity and project delivery across Essential and Enhanced shows
- Own end-to-end marketing performance reporting and KPI frameworks
- Oversee dashboards (Power BI) and ensure consistent, accurate reporting across teams
- Deliver actionable insights to improve campaign performance, customer engagement, and conversion
- Lead analysis across the full customer journey, including funnel performance and attribution
- Own data management and integration across platforms (GA4, GTM, Salesforce, Pardot, Treasure Data)
- Ensure data quality, consistency, and compliance (GDPR/PECR)
- Enable effective segmentation, tracking, and data accessibility for marketing teams
- Establish, document, and scale best practices across data & analytics
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and knowledge sharing within the MOPs community
- Benchmark performance and lead regular reviews to identify areas for refinement and growth
Requirements
- Process-driven and outcomes-focused, with a mindset for continuous improvement and innovation
- Strong understanding of workload and resource management tools and methodologies, with a focus on scaling team output and improving cross-functional collaboration
- Passionate about marketing, the importance of the customer and connecting data across multiple systems to show the full impact of marketing
- Proven ability to lead through change, embedding new processes and technologies while gaining team buy-in
- Proven experience and demonstrated aptitude for all aspects of marketing operations including, but not limited to, CRM & marketing automation, data strategy, website analytics, data visualisation
- Experience working in a matrix organisation structure with skills to successfully manage multiple key stakeholders and competing demands
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable processes and workflows that drive efficiency, consistency, and high performance across marketing operations
- Highly organised with excellent project management skills; capable of managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Superior verbal and written communications skills with high attention to detail
- A positive and collaborative attitude and passionate about operational excellence
Skills
- Data & Analytics strategy
- Marketing data management
- Reporting
- Data integration
- Data governance
- Customer insight
- Marketing technology stack (Salesforce, Pardot, GA4,GTM, Treasure Data, Power BI, Hotjar and Clarity)
- Data visualisation (Power BI desirable)
- CRM
- Marketing automation
- Data strategy
- Website analytics
- Project management
Location
- EMEA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Manager
Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- End of year wellbeing shutdown
- Extra day of leave for a celebration of your choosing
- Summer Hours in August (3pm finish on Fridays)
- Helping Our World (HOW) Days – one paid day per quarter to carry out charity work
- Pension Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Health Cash Plan
- Wellbeing Library (MYNDUP)
- Mentoring Programme
- Season Ticket Loan
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Free on-site gym and shower facilities
- Free eyesight tests
- Free flu vaccination
About the Company
- Clarion Events is one of the world’s leading event organisers, producing and delivering innovative and market-leading events since 1947.
- Clarion Events embrace diversity and equal opportunities in all that we do.
- Clarion is private equity backed and owned by Blackstone.
- Blackstone is one of the world’s leading global investment funds, investing capital for the long term in order to build successful, resilient businesses.
- Our purpose is to deliver exceptional customer outcomes and experiences, by making every connection count.
- Our vision is we want every one of our products to be a market leader in customer satisfaction and delight.
Equal Opportunity
- Clarion Events embrace diversity and equal opportunities in all that we do. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
- We encourage employees to be open and confident and recognise that every member of the team makes a vital contribution.
- Clarion embraces equality, diversity and inclusion and seeks to promote these principles in all of our business activities.
- When recruiting new employees or providing opportunities for promotion, we will: Recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of background, and make the best use of their talents; Ensure that no person is unlawfully discriminated against; Select the best person for the role based on their skills, qualifications and abilities.
- This statement sets out our commitment to equal opportunities and to preventing discrimination in the workplace.
