Head of Marketing: UPSell, Customer & Reseller Marketing, Access People

Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!

Our core value of ‘Love work, Love life’ has been central to our success and so we’re looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day, to help us become a UK top 10 Software company.

Are you ready for the challenge?

 What are we all about?

At Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more.

We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That's why over 1 million users and over 10,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive.

The Head of Marketing(HOM) for Access People, will be responsible for driving pipeline and supporting sales to drive pipeline from our customer and reseller base.  The HOM will lead the identification and execution of key product and marketing initiatives that will grow their share of wallet inline line with the Access business growth targets.

The HOM will also take ownership of driving social engagement, establishing a thought leadership program, defining and managing the content and website/SEO strategy for the division.  This role will also take on some Strategic Initiatives that impact our customer base.

The success of this role is reliant on a close working relationship with key stakeholders in and out of division, including: the Access People marketing team: other HOMs: Digital Shared Services: the Customer Marketing team: Customer Success:  Sales: Product management: Product Marketing and the wider Marketing community. 

This is an extremely important role within Access People to enable and drive consistency across the rest of the team and also work on some key strategic projects.  The HOM will utilise customer feedback, market data and industry trends to anticipate market, business and technology changes to define, drive and execute integrated marketing plans. 

Day-to-day, you will:

• Strategy: Be the voice of the customer inside Access People. Understand the Access People business goals and pain points and create open lines of communication to and from the market. Actively articulate the divisional products’ vision and how Access solves challenges to prospects, customers, and industry leaders
• Leadership: Own the Access People combined pipeline number for upsell and resellers. Provide marketing vision and leadership for the relevant product lines. Work closely with the Marketing Director and Sales directors on all market positioning and overall go-to- market plans   
• Demand Generation: Develop and manage the execution and tracking of digital multi-channel lead generation programmes that yield the volume and quality of leads required to fuel pipeline development in accordance with Access divisional business and growth objectives and with a clear eye on ROI and key KPIs. 
• Content Development: Understand the customer journey and create stellar content to help guide customers and resellers through the buying cycle
• Lead Management: Understand the intricacies of lead management, and understand the prospect to customer lifecycle which combines marketing activities with sales and SDR teams to nurture leads generated to optimise the yield of required qualified sales opportunities
• Marketing Performance Management: Create metrics-driven budget planning, execution, and continuous ROI analysis. Regular reporting at a senior management level and monthly board level.  Ensuring the digital channel performance are meeting daily and weekly KPIs and stretch benchmarks
• Influencer Relations: Build influencer relationships to maximise Access share-of- voice
• Innovation: Continuously seek to innovate in the field of marketing and product. Create an environment where new ideas and initiatives are generated and implemented

• Stakeholder management  with divisional counterparts in sales, DS, product, support, and customer success while also managing stakeholders across divs where learnings and best practices can be taken  

As a well-rounded Head of Marketing, your Skills and Experiences likely include:

• Proven experience in high tech organisations working in a field facing marketing role for a technology company
• A strong track record in direct and digital marketing working closely with sales teams in executing programs that accelerate growth in sales, new customer acquisition and market leadership
• Experienced in strategic marketing planning with a focus on metrics-driven management and a clear track record of maximising ROI of marketing investments
• Clear track record and understanding of solution-based marketing communications and product marketing.
• Experienced and highly skilled public speaker with exceptional, oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated self-starter with an ability to manage and motivate staff
• Experience managing the strategy, roadmap and go-to- market development of SaaS solutions is strong plus

We are looking for a senior marketer who brings:

• High degree of technical expertise and business acumen, previous general management experience preferred
• Experience leading marketing within a matrixed organisational structure and operating in an entrepreneurial environment
• Ability to set clear and deliverable goals. Demonstrate tenacity, commitment to deliver and be accountable for results
• A motivating leader capable of instilling excitement and inspiring others
• Experience attracting, hiring, retaining, and mentoring high-performing teams and individuals
• Strong ability to influence and work collaboratively with people at all levels and within various functions
• Effective communicator, ability to convey vision

Key Performance Indicator Examples

• Sales qualified leads/pipeline – value and volume
• Marketing qualified leads/meetings – value and volume
• Quality of leads and pipeline generated
• Return on spend for everything we do
• Conversion rates from clicks to lead on digital channels
• Conversion rates of leads to opportunities to deals
• Average order values
• Total revenue
• Year on year momentum
• Sales and stakeholder confidence in marketing

What does Access offer you?

We are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.

In addition to our standard benefits of 25 days holiday, a match contributory pension and healthcare you will get:  

• A Competitive Salary
• Giving Back/Charity days
• Quarterly Socials
• 6 weeks Sabbaticals (after 6 years of service)
• The Access Group Big Break: our all-expenses paid holiday to Spain