Product Marketing Manager

Within Phoenix Group, we have an incredible opportunity to work on our Standard Life brand as a Product Marketing Manager to join our Product Marketing team. 

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

What We’re looking for

• Experience of working in B2B product communications
• Experience and working knowledge of pensions and/or investment products 
• Ability to translate data or research into compelling insights and recommendations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences
• Good stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships, persuade and influence in a matrix structure 
• Ability to work on, and at times lead multiple activities, managing own workload and keeping track of the activity of others to deliver within tight timescales

The role

• This role supports our iconic Standard Life brand where you’ll focus on the development of core product communications material to explain and promote retirement income solutions for our product range. 
• You will be responsible for the creation and management of product marketing collateral and content to launch retirement income solutions to our key audiences, including customers and advisers, achieving the desired external market positioning of the products.
• Working closely with the product team and other teams within our business you will lead the delivery of product marketing communications and manage the go to market plans for new product launches. You will ensure, through commissioning and analysing research insights, that communications are successful, deliver high impact and support commercial objectives.

What are we looking for?

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the end-to-end development and sign off of product marketing collateral 
• Building strong relationships with business stakeholders to enable collaboration and buy-in
• Commissioning the centralised marketing teams to provide support for the development of product collateral e.g. brand and design agency  
• Reporting on results and progress against plan, for each activity within plan and against budget on a monthly and quarterly basis (as a minimum) and as required
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of end customer and intermediary needs and behaviours so that communications are tailored to reflect these needs
• Commissioning research to ensure that product literature is well understood by the target audience and compellingly and accurately describes the product  

Job Type: Permanent 

Location and flexible working: Edinburgh, London or Wythall – hybrid working.

Closing Date: 8th November 2024

Salary and benefits: Up to £52,000, plus 8% bonus up to 16%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.