Senior Marketing Manager
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Closing date: Mon, 07 Dec 2026
- Full time
- £40k-£50k
- Apply now
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Job Summary
Job Description
This is a new, senior role in the Marketing & Communications team. You'll lead campaigns for our London concerts and set the campaign strategy and marketing calendar for our concerts across the UK. You'll also contribute to the RPO's wider marketing strategy and manage campaign budgets and offline media buying, as well as line-managing the Marketing Coordinator (Residencies) and Marketing Assistant and deputising for the Director when needed.
The role is as varied as the music we play and the places we play it. In the same week we can perform a symphony with our Music Director Vasily Petrenko, a pop night and a family concert, in venues from the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall to BOXPARK Wembley and venues across the UK. Each concert has its own audience, and you'll shape how we reach them, whether they have never been to a concert or come every month. Expect to bring creative ideas, test new approaches and judge what worked: evaluating every campaign is a core part of the job.
The role calls for compelling copy, clear thinking and the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues in ticketing, digital, design and artistic planning. You don't need an orchestral music background, but we'd like you to understand how the cultural sector works and how audiences think, and to care about what music can do for people.
Concert attendance is part of the role, with weekends, evenings and occasional UK-wide travel required.
Job Requirements
Essential Experience
Significant experience developing and delivering creative ticketed or consumer campaign strategies across a range of channels, with a record of meeting sales targets.
Experience of managing and developing a team.
Experience of owning and managing marketing budgets, including media planning and buying.
Experience of measuring return on marketing spend, using sales and campaign data to forecast, set targets and evaluate performance, and changing plans as a result.
Skills and knowledge
Strong planning and project management skills, including managing a calendar and handovers / workflow across several teams.
Sound judgement under pressure, including knowing what to decide and what to escalate.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with the credibility to negotiate and influence at senior level, including with colleagues you don't manage, and to represent a senior leader internally and with partners.
Job Responsibilities
Strategy and Planning
Owns the campaign strategy and marketing calendar for the RPO's UK concerts, including the on sale and ticket release calendar, briefs, timelines and handovers between teams, and has oversight of how campaign plans fit together across the UK.
Contributes to the RPO's overall marketing strategy, including digital, pricing and offers, and audience development, bringing campaign and sales evidence, to support decisions.
Campaigns and Audiences
Leads the planning and delivery of campaigns for all London concerts, working with the Concerts and Artistic Planning teams and the Director of Marketing & Communications on forecasting and target setting, and using insights from the Sales & Ticketing Manager and the Digital Marketing & Insights Manager to inform decisions.
Works collaboratively with the marketing teams at our London partner venues (Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall and Royal Festival Hall) to sell more tickets and reach new audiences.
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Job Overview
- Job Title: Senior Marketing Manager
- Salary: £40k-£50k
- Hours: Full time
- Artform: Music
- Role: Marketing & Digital
- Contract: Permanent
- Closing date: Mon, 07 Dec 2026
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Location:
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Job: Senior Marketing Manager
Job: Senior Marketing Manager
Organisation: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Postcode: HA9 0BP
How to Apply
Apply via our Breathe HR portal with a CV and covering letter
addressed to Beki Smith, Director of Marketing & Communications
- Contact name: Beki Smith
- Contact email: [email protected]
About Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s (RPO) mission to enrich lives through orchestral experiences that are uncompromising in their excellence and inclusive in their appeal, places it at the forefront of music-making in the UK and internationally. Typically performing approximately 200 concerts a year and with a worldwide live and online audience of more than 60 million people, the Orchestra is proud to embrace a broad repertoire and reach a diverse audience.