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Brand Marketing & Experience Consultant
Standard Life plc
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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We’re looking for a Brand Marketing and Experience Consultant to join our Group
Brand and Marketing team. If you’re looking for a new challenge with an
organisation committed to putting customers first, aiming high and working
together, you’ll thrive here.
Job Type: Secondment - 23 months
Location: Hybrid role based in Edinburgh
Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of
flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with
business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about
flexible working here.
[https://www.standardlifeplc.com/careers/flexible-working]
Closing Date: 25/09/2026
Salary and benefits: £25,000 plus an indicative bonus range of 8-16% private
medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life
assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.
Meet the team: Martin Fearn will be hosting a virtual open forum on Thursday
17th September at 2pm if you would like to hear more about this opportunity.
Microsoft Teams meeting
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Meeting ID: 320 510 988 665 228
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The role
This role will work effectively across Group Brand & Marketing and Corporate
Affairs & Brand contributing to an increasingly integrated operating model with
shared priorities, connected workflows and clear interfaces. To support the
Senior Social Media Lead in the delivery of a market leading brand and content
experience by assisting with the planning, creation, analysis and coordination
of social media and marketing content across Standard Life and wider Group
initiatives. The role provides hands on exposure to content production, channel
management, event support and customer experience delivery, while developing
skills in brand governance and performance analysis. Working collaboratively
across the Brand Marketing & Experience team, the role helps ensure
consistent, engaging and compliant brand activity, while offering a strong
development foundation for a future career in marketing and content experience.
As part of the role, you will follow brand, compliance and quality standards.
You will be confident applying brand governance and regulatory requirements to
ensure all outputs align with Group standards and support consistent, high
quality brand execution.
You will also be supported in obtaining a formal qualification in Marketing.
What are we looking for?
• Basic understanding of marketing, content or social media principles.
Demonstrates awareness of how brand, content, social media and marketing
activities work together across a wider marketing system.
• Good communication and collaboration skills. Comfortable working with
colleagues across Group Brand & Marketing, Channel Marketing and other
internal teams to support cross functional delivery.
• Comfortable using or exploring AI-enabled tools and a willingness to learn to
enhance content planning, social analytics and productivity, ensuring outputs
meet brand, regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Curiosity, initiative and a growth mindset. Shows enthusiasm for developing
technical, creative and professional skills through hands on work, feedback,
rotational learning and exposure to content creation, social media, digital
experiences and event delivery.
• A degree‑level qualification (or equivalent) in Brand, Marketing or a related
discipline is preferable.
• Some experience of working in a professional or office environment (for
example through a placement, internship or part‑time role) would be
beneficial
• Some experience of using MS Office applications such as Word, Powerpoint and
Excel to create reports and presentations
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants
from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve
advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to
hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know
so we can help you to be at your best.
We’re reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing
out.
Find out more about working at Standard Life
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