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Stratford-Upon-Avon

Anticipate, interpret, communicate and advise on regulatory and industry rules, codes and guidance, acting as a subject matter expert in financial promotions systems and controls ensuring the production of compliant marketing material.Deliver and enforce an efficient first line of defense capability for financial promotions, ensuring all marketing material is compliant and appropriately signed off to agreed SLAs and regulatory standards.Interpret, assess and respond to regulatory developments in order to define and develop appropriate sign-off criteria for financial promotions, in conjunction with group compliance, to ensure marketing materials are up to date and consistently applied and meet all compliance standards.Manage and deliver the provision of training and support to the marketing division to ensure that all regulatory aspects are considered during the production of promotional material prior to submission in order to ensure a 'right first time' approach. Manage, maintain and communicate decision and substantiation logs for approved marketing messages ensuring a comprehensive list of authorised marketing statements are readily available.Research, collate and interpret regulatory developments to support the delivery of media activity related to financial services.

Project manage the end to end campaign process for commercial insurance and provide regular updates to internal stakeholders on campaign delivery. Identify and mitigate risks and issues and ensure mitigation plans are in place to ensure campaigns are delivered to plan. Collaborate with channel owners to obtain engagement, input and expertise to develop integrated plans that meet business objectives. Own and manage the execution of the campaign and coordinate activity with channel owners to ensure it is delivered on time, to quality and regulatory standards and to budget. Manage, maintain and deliver all relevant marketing collateral including literature, brochures, direct marketing and webpages as part of campaign activity as well as BAU to ensure it is delivered on time, to quality standards and on budget.Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders within the business to ensure communication and planning takes place in relation to campaigns, in particular sales and the internal communications teams. Adopt a culture of test and learn to drive continuous improvement and keep up to date with marketing techniques making recommendations on opportunities, supported by clear rationale.Lead, manage, motivate and develop direct reports so that they know what is expected, are able to maximise their contribution to business objectives and realise their potential.

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Review, check and approve all marketing material and customer communications created by Head Office departments, Agents and Financial Advisers to ensure compliance with the FCA’s COBS/ICOBS client communication and financial promotion rules and guidance.Interpret and assess the practical impact of rule and guidance changes on client communications and financial promotions, and communicate to stakeholders.Monitor and review the systems and controls used by the company for the production of client communications and financial promotions, and to ensure that they are effectively applied.Build and maintain relationships with communication owners to educate, guide and advise to ensure all client communications and financial promotions are compliant and reduce the need for rework.

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Implement marketing compliance systems and controls, including continual review and training new users so that they are able to use these effectively, and in accordance with procedures.Monitor, maintain and store compliance approval records in accordance with policies and procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.Gather system enhancement and update requests and coordinate their implementation in collaboration with IT, to continuously improve processes and production efficiency.Produce management information to report progress against SLAs and KPIs and identify trends and issues.Support communication owners in updating marketing material, including copy changes, proof reading and liaising with digital and print teams and suppliers.

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Design, deliver and evaluate agreed direct marketing activities aligned with regulatory and marketing standards to ensure they are delivered to time, budget and quality required and achieve target KPIs and objectives.Assess, review and recommend ideas which take account of market practice and market trends to improve efficiency, quality and impact of marketing activities.Instruct, brief and oversee delivery of services from third party suppliers and ensure activity is delivered to brief in line with business requirements, service level agreements and budgets.Coordinate marketing activity for campaigns and other initiatives in collaboration with the Marketing department and other internal stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery of business objectives.Build, maintain and manage relationships with internal business areas to ensure activity is delivered on schedule and to budget.

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Motor and home insurance underwriting for large key accounts including fleet risks.Building and maintianing close working relationships with internal stakeholders and Agencies to ensure existing and new business is delivered on time to meet customer expectation.

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