Marketplace Manager

Join our team and you’ll be responsible for driving the performance of our UK marketplaces. Working in the Marketing department, you will play a key role in shaping and executing our market strategy — turning insights into actionable plans that drive growth, optimise performance, and strengthen our market positioning across regions. You will play a vital role as we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody. 

Your responsibilities:  

• Balance supply and demand in our UK job marketplace, ensuring employers get the right candidates and candidates find the right jobs 
• Develop and implement steering strategies and solutions in line with our global framework via testing and automation, ultimately driving  clear commercial outcomes  
• Continuously monitor and analyse marketplace data in conjunction with a multitude of teams and translate insights into concrete steering actions  
• In close collaboration with commercial, pricing , sales, marketing and product, you will develop a deep understanding of the market, our product suite, commercial and performance data in order to optimise performance at various levels of granularity 
• Work with Analytics functions to produce and develop insightful and actionable reporting  

• 5+ years of professional experience in a marketplace or online trading role 
• Familiar with performance steering, supply-demand optimisation, or marketplace dynamics (experience in job boards or recruitment tech is a plus), with a strong understanding of performance marketing, traffic acquisition and platform economics 
• Confident analysing data with demonstrable experience of turning insights into commercial outcomes 
• Solution orientated and with ability to grasp complex technical architectures  
• Strong at collaborating across teams and can convince stakeholders with clear, data-driven arguments and comfortable working in a highly complex digital ecosystem

We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays   
• Private medical and dental healthcare   
• Matching pension contribution of 4 or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%)   
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme 
• Life Assurance Cover  
• Cycle to work scheme   
• Hybrid working model  (3 days working from the office)
• Volunteering days   
• and you can bring your dog to the office on Mondays and Fridays!   

Our commitment 

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.  

As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work - both locally and internationally, including:  

• Armed Forces Covenant: Silver Award, Employer Recognition Scheme 
• EcoVadis: Bronze Award 
• Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work 
• RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024 
• Stonewall: Gold Award 
• Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)