Marketing & Business Development Manager

Manchester Permanent £65000 - £75000 Ref: 418410

Marketing & Business Development Manager

A newly created opportunity has arisen for an experienced Marketing & Business Development Manager to join a growing professional services group at an exciting stage of its evolution. Working across multiple business units, you’ll play a key role in aligning Business Development and Marketing activity, improving commercial performance and ensuring strategic initiatives are delivered effectively.

Reporting into senior leadership, you’ll lead Marketing planning, performance reporting, CRM optimisation and team coordination, helping create a more joined-up, data-driven approach to growth. You’ll also take ownership of a significant HubSpot implementation project, ensuring the business maximises the value of its commercial data, processes and reporting capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Align Marketing and Business Development activity across the group.
• Develop KPI frameworks, reporting dashboards and commercial performance metrics.
• Monitor pipeline activity, lead generation and conversion performance.
• Lead the implementation and optimisation of HubSpot.
• Improve commercial processes, reporting and operational effectiveness.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to translate strategy into action.
• Manage and develop Marketing and Business Development team members.
• Deliver insight and recommendations that support future growth

About You

We're open to candidates from a variety of backgrounds but it is essential you have Commercial marketing experience and have worked closely with Business Development teams with exposure to Marketing operations, business development, CRM leadership(Hubspot) within a B2B or professional services environment.

You’ll bring:

• Experience driving commercial performance and operational improvement.
• Strong CRM, reporting and data analysis capability.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience delivering business change, projects or system implementations.
• A commercial mindset with the ability to turn strategy into measurable outcomes.
• Previous HubSpot experience would be highly advantageous.

What’s on Offer?

• Salary of £65,000-£75,000
• Hybrid working environment - office in Manchester
• Opportunity to shape a newly created role.
• Significant visibility across the leadership team.
• A business investing heavily in growth, systems and commercial capability.
• Excellent long-term career development opportunities.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys creating structure, driving accountability and helping businesses translate commercial strategy into tangible results.