Professional Development & Programmes Manager (4 days)

Professional Development & Programmes Manager

£45,000 (£56,250 full-time equivalent) Four days a week Hybrid, London

Do you get real satisfaction from running programmes that participants love, and care just as much about whether the places fill? The Marketing Society is looking for a Professional Development & Programmes Manager to take ownership of Accelerate, our professional development portfolio for marketing leaders and their teams.

This is a four-day role, reporting to our Chief Commercial Officer, with flexibility around how and where you work. It is not simply a delivery role. We are looking for someone who brings strong programme management together with commercial thinking and a good understanding of learning and development.

Location Flexible, remote working, with easy commuting distance into central London for key team meetings, Member events and industry engagements as required.

The role

You will have three main priorities:

• Manage Accelerate

  , making sure our programmes are well planned, joined up and delivered to a consistently high standard.

• Grow participation and revenue

  , working with colleagues, Members and prospective organisations to fill programmes and deliver against commercial targets.

• Develop the offer

  , using participant feedback, market insight and commercial performance to improve what we already run and shape what we build next.

The portfolio includes the Marketing Leaders Programme, Global Mentoring Programme, Learning Labs, Insiders Programme and Innovation Spotlight, alongside partner programmes such as MiniMBA and Marketing Leadership Masterclass. You will also work with the wider team on Ones to Watch.

What you will do

• Own the annual programme calendar, plans, budgets and milestones, coordinating facilitators, speakers, venues and partners.
• Look after the participant journey from registration and onboarding through to completion and follow-up.
• Be accountable for participation and revenue across Accelerate, with a clear view of bookings, pipeline and capacity.
• Work with Membership, Marketing and Commercial colleagues to build demand, and identify the Members and organisations that would benefit from specific programmes.
• Use feedback and performance data to recommend changes to format, content, pricing or delivery.
• Keep budgets, forecasts and reporting accurate, and carry the learning from each programme into the next.

What we are looking for

• Around five years’ experience in professional development, L&D, executive education, membership or a similar environment, including at least two to three years owning programmes end to end.
• Experience running several programmes at once, including timelines, budgets, stakeholders and delivery.
• Confidence working with senior participants, facilitators and external partners.
• Evidence of growing participation, revenue or the performance of a programme or product.
• Comfort owning budgets, forecasts and performance reporting.
• The curiosity to ask what marketing leaders need, what organisations will pay for and how Accelerate should evolve.

You do not need to be a marketer or to have worked in a membership organisation. Relevant practical experience matters more to us than qualifications, although a CIPD or a recognised programme management qualification such as PRINCE2, AgilePM or APM PMQ would be useful.

Why join us

You will be joining The Marketing Society after a record-breaking couple of years, with strong momentum and ambitious plans for what comes next. You will have real ownership of an established portfolio and the chance to shape its future, with access to some of the UK’s and the world’s leading brands and marketers. Our values are care, share, dare.

Benefits

25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata), an extra week’s closure over Christmas, one energiser day a year, a pension scheme and life insurance.

About The Marketing Society

The Marketing Society is the global community for marketers who mean business. We bring together 3,300+ senior marketers across hubs in England, Scotland, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York and the UAE, giving them the platform, programmes and peers they need to lead with impact in an age of change.

How to apply

Email your CV and a covering letter explaining why you are a good fit for the role to [email protected] using the subject line “Accelerate Role” The closing date is 20 October …