Our vision is to nurture PEI Group and our business membership and event brands into must-have resources and interconnected professional networks, enabling private market investors, managers, and service providers to better meet their business objectives and outperform in their markets.
The marketing team acts as strategic partners to the business, delivering customer-centric, creative, and high-performance programmes that drive engagement, strengthen brand preference, and underpin commercial success.
The Marketing Manager – Membership Acquisition, based in New York, will play a key role in delivering marketing strategy and growth across PEI’s business information and network-led membership offering.
Working within the strategic direction set by the Senior Marketing Manager, this role is responsible for the planning and execution of audience-led marketing programmes that drive leads and revenue across priority membership audiences.
Role Overview
You will develop and deliver marketing plans for the PEI Private Equity membership and flagship NEXUS summit, ensuring they are effectively positioned within the market.
You will translate strategy into integrated campaign programmes across the member lifecycle, working closely with Sales, Editorial, Data and Digital Marketing teams.
This role combines campaign leadership, audience insight, and commercial delivery, with accountability for marketing performance across defined brands and audience segments.
Responsibilities and duties:
Delivery of Membership Marketing Strategy
- Deliver marketing plans for Memberships aligned to overall business and marketing strategy
- Translate business objectives into clear, commercially focused campaign programmes
- Deliver campaign and acquisition initiatives aligned to revenue, pipeline, and conversion KPI’s
- Ensure the membership value proposition is effectively communicated and integrated across all channels and touchpoints
Audience-Led Acquisition Marketing
- Plan and deliver acquisition marketing programmes focused on:
- Lead generation
- ICP-qualified pipeline growth
- Lead-to-opportunity conversion
- New logo acquisition
- Develop and execute ABM initiatives across target priority pursuit firms
- Identify opportunities to improve lead-to-membership revenue conversion
Integrated Campaign Planning & Execution
- Own delivery of campaign programme across target audiences and organisations
- Deliver integrated campaigns across:
- Email
- Digital channels
- Social media
- Paid media
- Content marketing
- Events and nurture journeys
- Coordinate campaigns across acquisition, demo generation, conversion, and nurture activity
- Ensure campaigns are aligned to audience needs, ICP and commercial objectives
- Optimise landing pages, user journeys, and campaign conversion performance
Audience Insight, TAM & Growth Opportunities
- Develop an understanding of TAM, ICPs, personas, and audience behaviour.
- Identify headroom, penetration, and account-based growth opportunities across target regions and audience segments
- Use data and insights to:
- Optimise targeting and messaging
- Identify growth opportunities
- Improve conversion and engagement
Cross-Team Collaboration
- Work closely with:
- Sales teams to support acquisition, lead pipeline and conversion
- Sales teams to improve lead quality and funnel performance
- Editorial teams to align content with audience needs and value proposition
- Events and Networks teams to support cross-sell and integrated campaigns
- Data and Marketing Ops teams for segmentation, automation, and reporting
- Digital teams to align and continuously improve SEO and AEO visibility
New Product Development & Go-to-Market
- Support the development and launch of new membership products
- Contribute to go-to-market strategies and campaign execution for new initiatives
- Ensure marketing readiness across channels and audiences
Performance, Reporting & Optimisation
- Track and report on key marketing performance metrics, including:
- Leads and ICP-qualified pipeline
- Conversion and funnel performance
- Channel attribution
- Traffic and engagement
- Campaign ROI and acquisition performance
- Analyse activity to identify opportunities for optimisation and growth
- Provide actionable recommendations to improve campaign effectiveness, conversion, and revenue contribution
- Contribute to regular analysis, reporting, benchmarking, and performance reviews across Marketing and Commercial teams
Campaign Delivery, Content & Tools
- Develop marketing material in collaboration with Design and Product Marketing
- Develop sales enablement toolkits and campaign support materials for Sales teams
- Confidently use MarTech platforms (e.g. Marketo, CRM, Tableau, Heap, Sailthru) to execute, optimise, and report on campaigns
- Use data, automation, AI-enabled tools, and audience insights to improve targeting, segmentation, lead scoring, and campaign performance
- Execute targeted inbound and outbound campaigns across channels, audience segments, and priority accounts
- Support campaign automation, nurture journeys, and lead workflows
- Contribute to budget planning, campaign planning, and performance management