Marketing Associate
Franklin Templeton
Date: 10 hours ago
City: Edinburgh, Scotland
Contract type: Full time
At Franklin Templeton, we’re advancing our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we provide opportunities to help you reach your potential while helping our clients reach theirs.
Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!
What is the Global Brand and Marketing Strategy team responsible for?
The team is responsible for developing and executing brand strategy and messaging, assessing and managing global sponsorships (for example, sports), managing marketing projects and materials and coordinating business management functions across the Global Marketing team. As the Marketing Associate, you’ll partner closely with marketing leaders and cross-functional teams to support the needs of business. This will include managing marketing projects related to brand and sponsorships as well as business management responsibilities including aggregating information for marketing reports and communications. In this broad role, the candidate will gain great exposure to strategic and creative marketing, working with partners across business units and countries. Based in Edinburgh, you’ll have support from the onsite marketing team whilst being a part of this global team.
What are the ongoing responsibilities of the Marketing Associate?
Project Management and Reporting
Building teams with diverse skills, backgrounds, and experiences has always been important to us. Cultivating an inclusive culture where employees feel safe to share their voices is not only beneficial for our people, but also drives innovation and enables us to deliver better client outcomes. So, no matter your interests, lifestyle, or background, there’s a place for you at Franklin Templeton. We will provide you with tools, resources, and learning opportunities to help you excel in your career and personal life.
Hear more from our employees
We want our employees to be at their best. By joining us, you will connect with a culture that focuses on employee well-being and provides multidimensional support for a positive and healthy lifestyle. We understand that benefits are at the core of employee well-being and may vary depending on individual needs. Whether you need support for staying physically and mentally healthy, saving for life's adventures, taking care of your family members, or making a positive impact in your community, we aim to have you covered.
Learn more about the wide range of benefits we offer at Franklin Templeton
Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.
As part of our commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, we welcome applicants with flexible working arrangements in their current roles or those seeking a flexible working pattern. We encourage you to communicate any preferences for flexible working so that we can consider this during our hiring process. Additionally, returners – individuals who have taken a break from work – are also encouraged to explore our job opportunities.
As a registered UK Disability Confident Committed Employer, we encourage you to disclose if you consider yourself to have a disability as part of your application. This information enables us to provide the necessary support and leverage your unique talents effectively.
If you believe that you need an accommodation or adjustment to search for or apply for one of our positions, please send an email to [email protected]. In your email, please include the accommodation or adjustment you are requesting, the job title, and the job number you are applying for. It may take up to three business days to receive a response to your request. Please note that only requests for arrangements will receive a response.
Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!
What is the Global Brand and Marketing Strategy team responsible for?
The team is responsible for developing and executing brand strategy and messaging, assessing and managing global sponsorships (for example, sports), managing marketing projects and materials and coordinating business management functions across the Global Marketing team. As the Marketing Associate, you’ll partner closely with marketing leaders and cross-functional teams to support the needs of business. This will include managing marketing projects related to brand and sponsorships as well as business management responsibilities including aggregating information for marketing reports and communications. In this broad role, the candidate will gain great exposure to strategic and creative marketing, working with partners across business units and countries. Based in Edinburgh, you’ll have support from the onsite marketing team whilst being a part of this global team.
What are the ongoing responsibilities of the Marketing Associate?
Project Management and Reporting
- Manage and execute marketing projects, working with key stakeholders to define objectives, timelines, resources and deliverables.
- Support the activation and promotion efforts of sports sponsorships.
- Develop reports, dashboards, presentations and communications for leaders including key initiative summaries, progress to goals and ad hoc business requests.
- Manage department cost centers, ensuring alignment with business.
- Manage department email distribution lists and shared mailboxes, coordinating with communications team, as appropriate.
- Initiate new vendor and contractor set-up, including managing required documents and contracts through approval process (NDAs, Master Services Agreements and Statements of Work).
- Process invoices, track approvals and payments; reconcile budget reports.
- Partner with Compliance on department required supervisory procedures and other business needs.
- Maintain department records, as required.
- Create and maintain a centralized site or folder for internal procedure documents and other key materials for global team.
- Maintain department continuity of business plans.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
- Experience within a marketing function, ideally supporting brand, campaign-related and/or sponsorship marketing projects.
- Superb communication and relationship-building skills with all levels in an organization.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented and proactive.
- Excellent project management and analytical skills.
- Self-starter with a proven ability to work autonomously and to manage multiple projects/deliverables.
- Proficiency at prioritization and ability to work under, and meet, tight deadlines.
- Experience working with global teams across multiple regions.
- Excellent business judgement and ethics.
- Experience with, or a keen interest in, leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and output.
- Understanding of investment management, financial services, or related sectors.
Building teams with diverse skills, backgrounds, and experiences has always been important to us. Cultivating an inclusive culture where employees feel safe to share their voices is not only beneficial for our people, but also drives innovation and enables us to deliver better client outcomes. So, no matter your interests, lifestyle, or background, there’s a place for you at Franklin Templeton. We will provide you with tools, resources, and learning opportunities to help you excel in your career and personal life.
Hear more from our employees
We want our employees to be at their best. By joining us, you will connect with a culture that focuses on employee well-being and provides multidimensional support for a positive and healthy lifestyle. We understand that benefits are at the core of employee well-being and may vary depending on individual needs. Whether you need support for staying physically and mentally healthy, saving for life's adventures, taking care of your family members, or making a positive impact in your community, we aim to have you covered.
Learn more about the wide range of benefits we offer at Franklin Templeton
Franklin Templeton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and existing employees, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, or gender expression, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law, ordinance, or regulation.
As part of our commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, we welcome applicants with flexible working arrangements in their current roles or those seeking a flexible working pattern. We encourage you to communicate any preferences for flexible working so that we can consider this during our hiring process. Additionally, returners – individuals who have taken a break from work – are also encouraged to explore our job opportunities.
As a registered UK Disability Confident Committed Employer, we encourage you to disclose if you consider yourself to have a disability as part of your application. This information enables us to provide the necessary support and leverage your unique talents effectively.
If you believe that you need an accommodation or adjustment to search for or apply for one of our positions, please send an email to [email protected]. In your email, please include the accommodation or adjustment you are requesting, the job title, and the job number you are applying for. It may take up to three business days to receive a response to your request. Please note that only requests for arrangements will receive a response.
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