Senior Consultant/Consultant

Location: Remote (may transition towards client-based engagements in future depending on Covid-19 restrictions)

Role Type: Permanent

Expected Start date: Immediate

Package: Competitive Salary, Bonus Scheme, Pension, Healthcare

About Purple Square

The Marketing Technology landscape is complex, with new ways of engaging with customers it’s increasingly challenging to navigate the different concepts and capabilities. From the outset, Purple Square’s objective is to be recognised as the most focussed, independent, trusted, and transparent enterprise marketing automation experts for our clients and partners.

Our firmly held belief is that technology is an enabler not a magic-bullet, and that our role is to ensure the success of our client’s business objectives, by ensuring the right services and solutions are deployed at the right time.

Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our professional services team as a consultant supporting our clients and partners implementing best in class marketing automation solutions. The role will primarily be focused around the planning, design implementation and enablement for green and brown field implementations of the HCL Unica Platform and the Acoustic Marketing suite, and will over time encompass Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud. The consultant is the face of Purple Square, responsible for identifying and delivering the most appropriate solution to the clients’ needs. The role will report into the Regional Head of Services.

Main responsibilities

Responsibilities of the role will vary in accordance with the Client or Organization, the Industry, the technology platforms in play and the scope of individual engagements; typical duties include:

• Project and Programme Management.
• Business Analysis: Client workshop co-ordination and management, supporting clients to define their Marketing Automation requirements, from scope through to final project deployment.
• Technical/Architectural design; Defining appropriate operational and system architectures and integration pathways.
• Developing client operating models and ways of working.
• On-Premise Marketing Software installation.
• SaaS application service provisioning and configuration.
• Implementing client specific software configuration, in line with customer objectives.
• Developing vendor solution roadmaps for clients.
• Business Development.
• User Acceptance Testing management and support.
• Customer enablement and training; guidance on self-paced learning; best practice advice and guidance on the optimal use of the marketing automation solution.
• Solution blueprint, and enablement documentation.

A consultant may at times fulfil one or more of the following roles within a project:

• Technical Architect
• Business Consultant
• Project Manager
• Trainer

Personal characteristics

As an ideal candidate you will:

• Be responsible; able to take ownership of the role individually and as a representative of Purple Square.
• Be enthusiastic; to inspire our clients and your colleagues to think and deliver in new, more effective ways.
• Have exceptional standards; for us, being just good enough, simply isn’t, our passion drives us beyond this to deliver optimal solutions.
• Work with integrity and have a knowledge sharing attitude; we are transparent in all our business dealings and enthusiastic about share information to benefit all involved.
• Be able to work independently or as part of a team.
• Be able to adapt to changing client requirements & priorities.
• Be able to ‘fit in’ with client culture and processes, while remembering that they are a client and Purple Square is a supplier, so should act and behave accordingly.
• Be helpful, proactive, friendly, and approachable.
• Have strong problem-solving skills and an analytical mindset.

Experience and Qualifications

Essential

• Degree qualified
• Marketing experience (3+ years) or a good understanding of marketing practices
• Experience with campaign management technologies (e.g. Unica/Acoustic/Adobe /Salesforce/Oracle/Alterian/Faststats/Braze)
• Comfortable working with basic use of operating systems (MS Windows/UNIX).
• Data literate, comfortable working with databases and SQL statements (e.g. MS SQL Server/Oracle)
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills
• Excellent self-management and organisation skills
• Analytical skills

Desirable

• Administrative or User experience with one or more of the following is a definite advantage:
  • Unica Platform (Campaign/Interact/Optimize/Plan)
  • Acoustic Campaign and Exchange
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce CRM
  • Braze

Benefits

• Competitive Salary.
• Group Life Assurance (4* Salary).
• Business and personal travel insurance.
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Friendly and supportive workplace.
• Other benefits as they are introduced.

Other Information

The role will require a mixture of remote and onsite work, consultative activities are often required to performed on a clients’ sites and therefore the Consultant should be comfortable with traveling both within the UK and mainland Europe.

It is essential to be based within a reasonable commute of a major airport.