Senior Marketing Manager

Role Overview

• Own the full content journey from idea to impact, working with agencies, creators, and in-house teams from concept through to post-campaign analysis.
• Lead platform-first creative across all social channels, content made for the feed, not adapted as an afterthought.
• Build and grow communities people actively choose to follow, with a focus on story-led content that drives awareness and cultural relevance.
• Provide hands-on creative direction across scripts, edits, hooks, and storytelling to maximise engagement.
• Lead the influencer and creator programme, spotting trends early and instinctively knowing how to make them feel on-brand.
• Constantly experiment with formats, tones and storytelling techniques: fast tests, fast learning, fast iteration.
• Use performance data from organic and paid activity to continuously refine creative and messaging.
• Partner closely with the Marketing Manager to deliver standout content with real commercial impact, not vanity metrics.
• Lead on all creative written content and editing high-quality copy across PR, blogs, social, email, and internal communications.
• Champion our B2B content, produce video and written assets for dealers and partners, including case studies and ambassador programmes, ensuring a tailored but consistent brand voice.
• Act as a guardian of brand voice, ensuring consistency, quality control, and compliance across all outputs.
• Analyse performance across content and SEO to identify opportunities for improvement and growth.
• Manage budgets to create content that champions brand values.
• Explore emerging AI tools to improve speed and effectiveness without losing creative judgement.

Requirements

• Are ideas-led, not budget-led, you know how to make simple ideas land hard.
• Come with a proven playbook, you have a track record you can use at Cazoo to maximise results.
• Are autonomous & accountable, you'll be comfortable taking ownership without waiting for permission.
• Have strong creative instincts and can defend your ideas, but are equally happy killing them if the data says so.
• Can write sharp, engaging copy that sounds human, confident and in line with our challenger brand values
• not corporate.
• You're curious, culturally Switched-on and are plugged into what people actually watch, share, and talk about.

Benefits

• Financials 💰 We benchmark every role using Ravio and run annual performance and pay reviews to ensure we’re always competitive in the market.
• We offer an annual bonus scheme.
• We more than match your commitment to your pension, so when you contribute 6% , we put in 9%, taking your total up to 15% of your base salary.
• Quarterly value-led awards with generous cash prizes.
• Referral Bonus: Recommend a colleague, get £2,000.
• Work-Life 🏖️ 25 days (plus bank holidays) in your first year, then +2 days after 2 years, and an extra day for every year after up to 5 extra days.
• Hybrid setup
• you'll be expected to come to our Richmond offices twice a week to collaborate with colleagues.
• Family: Maternity/Pregnant Parent Leave: 20 weeks at 100% pay.
• Paternity/Non-birth Parent Leave: 12 weeks at 100% pay.
• Volunteer Days: We offer 2 volunteer days a year so you can help out wherever matters to you.
• Health & Peace of Mind 🏩 Comprehensive cover so you (and your favourite people) have the care you need.
• AXA Private Healthcare: High-level coverage for you, partners, and dependents—including pre-existing conditions.
• Bupa Dental: Level 2 coverage for cashback on preventative, restorative and emergency care.
• Private GP: 24/7 digital access via Help@Hand.
• Income Protection: 13 weeks of sick pay, before going onto Long term Illness cover with Canada Life.
• Life Assurance: 4x basic salary covered by Unum.
• Specialist Support: Free counseling and menopause/fertility support via Peppy.
• Your Growth 🌱 We hired you for your talent, and we’re committed to helping you expand it.
• Learning budget and continuous development opportunities.
• Every manager has a dedicated budget for your specific role development.
• The Extras 🔍 Your choice of a MacBook or Windows laptop.
• Perks@Work: Discounts at over 30,000 retailers and entertainment venues.
• Annual conference with top tier industry guest speakers. Past guests include names like Matthew Syed and Damian Hughes.
• Whether it’s our Summer bash or the annual festive party, we make sure we take the time to bring everyone together and celebrate in style.
• Free food & drinks in the office.
• We’re proud partners of Brentford FC, and we share the rewards with you. From tickets to matches to the bucket-list opportunity to actually play on the pitch yourself, we bring you closer to the action.