Marketing Manager, Demand Generation (Education)

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Education

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is part of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Group, one of the UK's largest privately held software companies. Our Education division serves over 12,000 schools and trusts globally, providing finance, HR, payroll, compliance, and school management solutions across brands including iSAMS, Every, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], and ParentMail.

The Role

As Marketing Lead, Education, you will build and lead the demand generation function for [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], covering both the UK State market and the Independent and International schools market. You will create a high-performing operation with shared goals, standards, and commercial focus, capable of delivering at scale across two distinct and dynamic markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of five marketing professionals, setting high standards for execution quality and commercial impact
• Establish unified campaign planning, performance frameworks, and operating standards across both markets
• Own performance reporting across the demand generation function, acting as the go-to source for campaign results, pipeline contribution, and marketing ROI for senior stakeholders
• Define differentiated approaches for distinct markets: ABM for UK State, scalable demand generation for Independent and International
• Set and own pipeline targets across new customer acquisition and customer expansion
• Manage the demand generation budget with clear ROI accountability
• Improve lead qualification standards and MQL-to-SQL conversion rates
• Partner with Sales, Product Marketing, Content, and Events to deliver integrated programmes

About You

You are a demand generation leader with the experience to both set the strategy and drive execution when needed.

You'll bring:

• B2B demand generation or growth marketing, with at least 3 years leading and mentoring teams
• A track record of delivering pipeline through integrated campaigns across digital, content, and events
• Salesforce experience
• Comfortable working within a defined strategy and budget framework, while owning execution and performance
• Solid commercial acumen: understanding of pipeline metrics, budget management, and ROI reporting
• Organised and process-minded, with the ability to bring structure and consistency to campaign planning
• A data-driven approach with the confidence to optimise based on performance

Bonus if you have:

• Experience in the education sector or edtech
• ABM programme design and execution
• Marketing automation experience (HubSpot, Marketo, or Pardot)
• Experience managing multi-market or multi-region marketing operations

Why Join [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]?

• Lead a high-impact demand generation function covering two dynamic and growing markets
• Build the team, the processes, and the foundations for long-term growth
• Work in a collaborative environment where marketing has a direct line to commercial outcomes

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

As one of the UK's largest privately held software companies, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy. Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child's school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.

The Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Charity / volunteering days
• Income protection insurance
• Life assurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Private healthcare
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Additional discount schemes
• Cycle to work scheme

Apply Now

If you're a marketing leader who builds teams that deliver, and you're ready to make a measurable impact in education technology, we'd love to hear from you. Please note: vacancy may close early due to high volume of applications.

Alternatively, email [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] or apply via the form on this page.