Event Marketing Manager
Marketing & Communications team
Motorpoint Arena & National Ice Centre
Role details
Location: Nottingham (Office based; with 20% remote working dependent on circumstances)
Job type: Full-time (40 hours)
Show attendance: This role requires attendance at some evening events. TOIL for additional hours worked.
Application closing date: Wednesday 8th July 2026 at 10:00am
Minimum Requirements
Essential: Demonstrable experience of paid-for marketing across digital platforms is essential
Highly Preferrable: Experience of live entertainment industry, ideally in a similar role with experience of managing promoters
Why work for us?
We are transforming how we market the Motorpoint Arena and National Ice Centre and are looking for progressive and creative marketing professionals to join us on the journey - might that be you?
We are a vibrant, 10,000 capacity live entertainment venue in the heart of Nottingham that for 25 years has hosted world-class shows across music, comedy, family, arts, and sports. We are now the sixth most popular entertainment arena in the UK, From Kylie to Peter Kay, to Disney, to Panthers ice hockey and Forest Netball - no two days are the same.
Our sister venue is the National Ice Centre, where our community comes together for ice sports across figure, synchro, speed skating, and ice hockey. Whether you're a family enjoying skating for fun, or a budding professional gliding in the footsteps of our local heroes Torvill and Dean, we provide the UK's best ice sports experience.
Our purpose is to create joyful experiences. Our marketing team is responsible for engaging with our one million visitors from the start to the end of their experience with our venues, encouraging them to visit again, and finding new audiences to enjoy our shows and events.
What will you be doing?
This is a rare opportunity to manage our Event Marketing function, whose primary purpose is to generate ticket sales for the Motorpoint Arena and footfall to the National Ice Centre (NIC).
Your specific responsibilities can be summarised as follows:
Event Marketing plan: Working with the Head of Marketing & Communications to produce a measurable and annual Event Marketing plan across all owned, paid-for, and earned assets - including paid-for digital, e-mail, social media, SMS, SEO, app, website, digital screens, traditional media, PR etc.
Paid-for digital marketing: Create, manage, and measure marketing campaigns across Meta, Tik Tok, Google and other media platforms
E-mail marketing: Create, manage and measure e-mail campaigns, including Arena announcements, pre-on-sales, and multi-event mailers
Social media: Oversee and manage all social media channels, organically growing and measuring engagement
Traditional media: Identify use of traditional media channels (e.g. posters, radio, TV etc) to deliver a balanced marketing plan reaching diverse audiences
PR: Use PR as part of the marketing and communications mix to gain earned coverage for the Arena and NIC
Creative content: Produce compelling content that builds on promoter assets to make the Arena and NIC a must-visit destination
Measurement and evaluation: Champion the regular reporting of all marketing activity at summary and event level, using data and insight to continually evolve and enhance marketing plans
Stakeholder management: Create positive relationships across a broad range of external and internal relationships, including managing the day-to-day marketing relationship with promoters
People management: Manage the Marketing & Communications Executive
Business & team contribution: Be seen as the Event Marketing specialist across the business, contributing positively and collaboratively up to CEO level and within the wider Marketing & Communications team
We're a nimble, streamlined team who thrive on working in a high-pressure live events environment, often working to short deadlines and at unsociable hours. We work in an exciting and high-profile industry, but it is not all glamour. Having a passion for music and entertainment would be beneficial
