Marketing Executive

BH Live - Marketing

Post Title: Marketing Executive

Sites Location: Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth

Salary: £32,427 per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed term contract

Anticipated start date - July 2026

End date of Fixed term appointment - up to 1 year or return of substantive postholder whichever is sooner

The role:

BH Live is recruiting for a an experienced Marketing Executive to join our team at Bournemouth International Centre on a fixed-term basis, linked to a period of maternity leave.

This post will help the marketing and communications team to plan and deliver multichannel marketing activities, including sales activities, lead generation and awareness campaigns; customer, colleague and stakeholder communication and engagement, and activities that support customer retention for BH Live Active’s leisure centres, sports facilities, attractions and parkland across Dorset and Hampshire.

You will:

• Be a versatile and experienced marketeer and team player, you will be passionate about establishing briefs, and then planning and developing vibrant and engaging content for use across various platforms, including but not limited to digital, media, print, audio and video channels.
• Combine excellent communication and marketing skills to establish briefs and deliver high-quality campaigns and projects for agreed outcomes, you will have an eye for detail, be extremely organised, able to work to a budget and deadline, and be comfortable working in a fast-paced and flexible environment.
• Be quick to establish positive and professional working relationships. Liaising with colleagues, suppliers and stakeholders is key to ensuring output is engaging, factual, follows process and achieves the desired outcome.
• Demonstrate activity outcomes to help inform and shape future marketing activity.

To be successful you will need:

• To have a keen interest in sports and leisure, including but not limited to gyms, swimming, exercise classes, football, tennis, gymnastics, health and wellbeing activities.
• A relevant qualification or substantial experience working within a marketing and communications team
• To be a great communicator (verbal and written) and able to quickly form collaborative relationships with colleagues, suppliers and stakeholders
• Possess a strong understanding and experience of using digital marketing tools, platforms
• Curious and interested in industry and local community trends and opportunities.

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We offer:

• Onsite parking
• Training and development opportunities
• BH Live Active - Gym membership
• Health cash plan
• Employee Assistance programme
• Company pension matched up to 6% contributions
• Colleague discount on food and drink
• Colleague recognition
• Birthday / Celebratory day off
• Loyalty Rewards

About BH Live:

We are one of the UK’s leading leisure and event venue operators – a registered charity and social enterprise.

Our geographical reach spans across multiple venues, leisure centres and attractions across Portsmouth, Southampton, Croydon and the BCP region with millions of visits per year.

Our organisational and charitable purpose is to generate:

• More participation – through the provision of leisure facilities to encourage active communities, improved health, and wellbeing

• Higher audiences – through the provision of a diverse range of cultural and artistic events that appeal to a wide audience

• Greater economic and social benefit – through hosting major conferences, exhibitions, and events for the benefit of the local, regional, and international economies and people

We are making a positive difference across the communities we serve.

Our organisation is changing lives – placing us at the heart of the UK’s growing social economy. We host hundreds of events a year; sell more than half a million cultural, and entertainment tickets; clock up millions of leisure centre visits, and welcome thousands of conference and exhibition delegates. As well as promoting community health and wellbeing, this generates millions of pounds in economic benefit for the local economy through business and cultural tourism.

As a social enterprise, we don’t pay dividends to shareholders. Every pound we make is used to run our business and generate a surplus to reinvest and enhance our centres and facilities for public benefit.

We’re BH Live, and we make things happen.

To apply:

All applications are to be made via the BH Live Careers site: careers.bhlive.org.uk

BH Live reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.