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Digital Marketing Director Employment Contract UK

Name: Digital Marketing Director Employment Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: advertising_and_marketing_digital_marketing_director_strategy_generated_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Set senior digital leadership around coherent customer journeys, accountable investment and responsible data use.

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
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Job description

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Role-specific duties

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Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.

Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

Notice periods

Notice terms explained for both parties.

Before you create it

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When to use this contract

Deliver integrated digital strategy, deliver governed channel and technology investment, and produce credible portfolio performance decisions.

Workplace context: Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering markets strategy and channels. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering leadership budgets and incentives. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering agencies martech data and security. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering measurement experimentation crisis and public profile. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering company policies.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The director cannot bypass privacy, security, procurement, claims or financial controls despite strategic accountability. May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

What to prepare before you issue it

the market remit
the channel organisation
the budget and people authority
the martech ownership
the measurement model
the executive privacy and security contacts

Day-to-day operating brief

What Digital Marketing Director (Strategy) work looks like in practice

A Digital Marketing Director sets strategy across paid media, search, CRM, social, content and digital experience, aligning teams and technology with commercial objectives. The role makes portfolio recommendations and leads senior stakeholders while board, client and regulated approvals remain separate. Terms should define markets, budget, people and agency authority, martech ownership, customer data, measurement, experimentation, security, procurement, public profile and crisis leadership. Channel plans should define how brand, acquisition, retention and service activity work together rather than make every team compete for the final conversion. Governance must cover account ownership, recovery access and vendor exit as well as everyday performance. Investment reviews should include customer quality, operational capacity and incrementality. The director should make unresolved measurement disagreement visible to executives instead of creating a false single number for convenience.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Set digital growth strategy.
Lead channel and analytics teams.
Allocate approved investment.
Govern agencies and technology.
Align data and customer experience.
Report performance risk and learning.

A realistic working scenario

Channel reports claim the same sale several times. The director resolves measurement governance before reallocating investment rather than adding incompatible attribution totals.

Outputs to agree

integrated digital strategy
governed channel and technology investment
credible portfolio performance decisions

Records and evidence

Strategy objective and assumption.
Budget allocation and approval.
Technology or agency decision.
Portfolio result risk and action.
Work records.
Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Senior Manager, Director or Business Owner. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

The director cannot bypass privacy, security, procurement, claims or financial controls despite strategic accountability.
May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Supervision

Lead channel and analytics teams.
Allocate approved investment.
Allocate and review assigned work within delegated authority and escalate formal people matters through the Employer's procedures.

Tools and systems

HR systems.

Workplace context

Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

Contract priorities

markets strategy and channels
leadership budgets and incentives
agencies martech data and security
measurement experimentation crisis and public profile

Information the employer should prepare

the market remit
the channel organisation
the budget and people authority
the martech ownership
the measurement model
the executive privacy and security contacts

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Maintained role evidence

The facts this Digital Marketing Director (Strategy) contract is built around

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Work setting

Office, client premises, remote systems or assigned work locations.

Primary duties

Set digital growth strategy.
Lead channel and analytics teams.
Allocate approved investment.
Govern agencies and technology.

Tools and training to confirm

HR systems.

Governance focus

Employer procedures and role controls. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering markets strategy and channels. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering leadership budgets and incentives. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering agencies martech data and security.

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Role wording

Digital Marketing Director (Strategy) duties

Deliver integrated digital strategy, deliver governed channel and technology investment, and produce credible portfolio performance decisions.

Set digital growth strategy. Lead channel and analytics teams. Allocate approved investment. Govern agencies and technology. Align data and customer experience.

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What is added to the finished contract

The director cannot bypass privacy, security, procurement, claims or financial controls despite strategic accountability.

May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering markets strategy and channels.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering leadership budgets and incentives.

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