Marketing Manager, Microsoft (EMEA) - 9 Month Contract

Location: Uxbridge, Sheffield or Manchester - 3 days a week in office. 
Contract: Fixed Term, 9 Months

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced and commercially minded Marketing Manager to join our EMEA Marketing team on a 9-month maternity cover contract. In this highly visible role, you'll lead the UK Microsoft marketing strategy while contributing to broader EMEA initiatives that drive pipeline growth, customer engagement, and business impact.

Working closely with Microsoft, Alliance teams, Sales, and Marketing stakeholders across the region, you'll be responsible for developing and executing integrated marketing campaigns, optimising marketing performance, and ensuring alignment with key strategic priorities.

This role also offers the opportunity to support the mobilisation and execution of Project Paddington, a high-profile strategic initiative designed to drive engagement, enablement, and growth across the business.

What You'll Be Doing

Strategic Campaign Planning & Execution

• Support and manage the UK element of the Microsoft marketing strategy, delivering ROI-focused campaigns that generate pipeline and new business opportunities.
• Own the UK Microsoft campaign calendar and execution roadmap, ensuring activities align with Microsoft priorities.
• Manage and optimise marketing programmes funded through Microsoft COOP funds, maximising return on investment.
• Collaborate closely with Microsoft UK, Alliances teams, and EMEA Marketing to align priorities and share performance insights.
• Act as a key contact for UK Microsoft partner marketing initiatives.

Performance & Reporting

• Monitor, analyse, and report on campaign performance, providing recommendations for optimisation.
• Maintain ownership of Microsoft UK marketing KPIs and dashboards.
• Contribute to EMEA marketing reporting and performance reviews.

Pan-EMEA Collaboration

• Share UK campaign successes, insights, and best practices across the wider EMEA organisation.
• Support the development and delivery of regional marketing programmes and campaigns.
• Contribute to EMEA messaging frameworks, campaign toolkits, and go-to-market initiatives.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing across countries and teams.

Project Paddington Responsibilities

As Project Paddington progresses, you'll play a key role in bringing the strategy to life through planning, stakeholder engagement, campaign activation, and sales enablement.

Programme Mobilisation & Planning

• Translate the agreed marketing strategy into a structured 6-12 month activation roadmap.
• Coordinate planning sessions across Marketing, Sales, Alliances, and partner teams.
• Support audience segmentation, messaging development, and campaign planning.
• Track key milestones, dependencies, budgets, and success measures.

Client Activation & Engagement

• Help deliver executive roundtables, customer workshops, webinars, account-based marketing initiatives, and demand generation activities.
• Work with Sales and partner teams to identify target accounts and engagement opportunities.
• Ensure campaigns have clear objectives, measurable outcomes, and defined lead progression pathways.

Sales & Partner Enablement

• Support the creation of messaging guides, campaign briefs, sales tools, and customer-facing content.
• Deliver enablement sessions for Sales, Alliances, and partner stakeholders.
• Maintain a central repository of marketing and enablement resources.

Campaign Delivery

• Execute integrated marketing activities across digital, social, email, events, content, and partner channels.
• Coordinate campaign assets, approvals, localisation, deployment schedules, and stakeholder communications.
• Identify opportunities to extend campaign reach through Microsoft and EMEA marketing programmes.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience in B2B technology marketing, ideally within a Microsoft, partner, or channel-focused environment.
• Strong campaign planning and execution experience with a focus on measurable business outcomes.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across regional and global teams.
• Experience tracking marketing performance, reporting ROI, and using insights to drive optimisation.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills.
• Strong communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, matrix environment.
• Experience supporting sales enablement, customer engagement programmes, and partner marketing activities is highly desirable.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact across both the UK and EMEA marketing landscape while working closely with one of the world's most influential technology partners. You'll have the chance to drive strategic initiatives, collaborate with senior stakeholders, and contribute to programmes that deliver tangible business growth.

Interested? We'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help shape the future of Microsoft marketing across EMEA.

About Insight: 

We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes.  Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there’s a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years.   

We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them. 

Application Details: 

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply. 

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful. 

A full job description will be provided upon application.  

Insight is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants and recognizes and values the unique talents and perspectives which individuals with disabilities bring to our workplace and we encourage them to apply. Any information provided regarding changes or adjustments will be kept confidential and used solely for the purpose of ensuring all our candidates can perform at their very best during the recruitment process.