Senior Manager, Marketing Science Research
Where data meets decisive commercial impact.
We usually respond within three days
What you will do
Within the team, this role will instil best practices, elevate outputs, and champion an insight-led culture that translates to actionable commercial growth
Ensure the Marketing Science Research proposition is embedded into our ways of working and enhance the current skillset
Ensure our clients are constructively challenged and that we’re always adding value
Own and continuously improve the end-to-end digital customer experience to remove friction and unlock growth
Analyse website performance to identify where customer intent is lost and commercial opportunities are missed
Define and champion evidence-led hypotheses grounded in real user behaviour, data, and insight
Translate insight into high-impact experiments that improve conversion, revenue, and customer lifetime value
Create a culture of test-and-learn, ensuring every optimisation delivers measurable commercial outcomes
Translate commercial objectives into prioritised experimentation roadmaps, turning complex business problems into testable questions with clear "what" and "why" rationales
Move beyond the "what" to uncover the "how" and "why" - identifying subsurface friction and psychological gaps
Resolve intent mismatches between ads and landing pages to ensure message relevance meets user expectations across the entire journey
Interpret test results with uncompromised robustness, ensuring every conclusion is backed by absolute statistical confidence, so the resulting insight can pivot and refine future marketing strategy
Synthesise every result into a refined future strategy, ensuring short-term wins fuel long-term growth
Position Marketing Science as a driver of competitive advantage by identifying untapped trends and customer friction points before opportunities are missed
Lead high-level client conversations, translating technical analytic direction into compelling strategic narratives
Proactively open numerous growth opportunities across performance marketing clients
Support our clients to turn brand discovery into preference, intent, and future demand
Maintain a rigorous investigative approach to bridge the gap between brand discovery and future demand
Actively contribute to and learn from the broader Marketing Science team
Requirements
Expert-level GA4 analysis
Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative analysis technique
Strong statistical knowledge regarding significance levels, p-values, Bayesian vs. Frequentist approaches and sample size calculation
Practical experience with session recording and heatmapping tools
Experience with industry standard testing tools
Take a solution driven approach to challenges
Marketing agency background is a significant bonus
5+ years in a similar CRO / Digital Experience / Marketing Science role
Experience managing a team
Diversity & Inclusion
Journey Further takes pride in creating an environment where everyone can be themselves. This starts with recruitment.
We pledge to make our roles as open as possible and to provide equal opportunities to everyone that is kind enough to give us their time. All recruitment decisions we take will be based solely on the positive skills and behaviours that applicants display and absolutely nothing else.
We do not discriminate based on any personal characteristic, we are a people first agency and we care about and celebrate individuals.
If something is important to you, it's important to us. If you have a particular need during the application process or during your time at Journey Further, please let us know.
- Locations
- Leeds, Manchester
- Yearly salary
- £45,000 - £50,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
Perks & Benefits
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Flexibility
We understand that everyone works differently, so we provide them the freedom to work how they want, when they want and where they want. No role is ever fully remote as we want people to be spending time with one another in person – however, we will support you in making sure you are supported in what ways of working suit you best.
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Experience
Work alongside one of the most experienced digital teams in the industry, and collaborate directly with clients at some of the world’s largest brands and high-growth startups.
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Wellbeing
We actively care for our team’s physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
We run various company initiatives to help promote physical wellbeing – yoga, running club, 5-a-side football to name a few.
We believe in taking a proactive approach when it comes to all our people’s mental wellbeing. As such we have partnered with experts from Vitality as well as trained Mental Health First Aiders, who our people can turn to in times of need
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Trust
We believe in giving ambitious people incredible autonomy in their work. You’ll have the freedom to tackle complex problems and the support of some of the talented people in the industry to do so.
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Learning
Through our Learn Together sessions, Book Club and Podcast, we learn from the best minds in the world and apply the most valuable insight to the work we do and how we run the business.
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CSR
CSR is a key priority for the business. We’re currently working on how we can make a lasting, positive impact on the world around us.
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Benefits
Our benefits package is constantly evolving. In the UK it currently includes:
- Pension matched up to 4%
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Private medical insurance
- Personal health fund
- Home working allowance
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and Christmas shutdown
- Unlimited unpaid holiday
In the US it currently includes:
- 401k matching
- Subsidized Medical, Dental & Vision
Company Life Insurance - Enhanced Maternity & Paternity cover
- Flexible and Remote working
- 19 days paid time off plus 12 federal holidays & office closure between Christmas and New Year.
- 1 additional day for observing a cultural, religious, or a personally meaningful occasion of their choice
- Unpaid time off
About Journey Further
Journey Further is a performance marketing agency working with the world's leading brands and fast-growth start-ups. We blend strategic thinking, creativity, digital channels and experimentation taking brands beyond performance.