Marketing and Advertising Compliance Lead
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Role: Marketing & Advertising Compliance Lead
Location: Leeds, LS15 8GB. We operate a hybrid schedule, 1-2 days a week in the office
Salary: £40,000 - £55,000 per annum DOE, plus up to a 10% annual discretionary bonus and our extensive benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Employment type: Full time
Working hours: Monday – Friday 37.5 hours per week. We work on a core hours principle. Our core hours are 09:30 - 16:00; you can work around these to suit you!
Do you want to work for the nation’s largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We’re a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 25 years’ experience, helping over 1.8 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from request through to delivery. We are Great Place to Work certified as we consider colleague experience a top priority every day, and as a certified B Corp we also meet high standards of social and environmental responsibility. Our people are fundamental to our success and ensuring we achieve our vision to be a world leading, patient‑centric digital healthcare provider. We are committed to continuing to develop a positive, open and honest working environment for all.
To enable compliant, effective, and timely marketing and communications for a regulated digital healthcare provider by owning the day‑to‑day marketing and advertising compliance function.
The role embeds compliance by design across CRM, paid media, social, partnerships/affiliates, website and product‑led communications. It reduces regulatory, legal and reputational risk while improving speed to market through clear guardrails, practical tools, and a consistent review and assurance operating model.
Why you’ll love working with us
We believe great people deserve great support. That’s why we offer a benefits package designed to look after your health, finances, career and life outside work.
Financial security & rewards
Competitive contributory pension
Occupational sick pay
Long‑service awards and refer‑a‑friend bonuses
Professional registration fees covered (GPhC, NMC, CIPD and more)
Cycle to Work and Green Car schemes (subject to eligibility)
Family‑friendly
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Flexible hybrid working to help balance work and home life
Health & wellbeing
Private healthcare insurance at discounted rates (Aviva)
Employee Assistance Programme and in‑house mental health support
Access to discounted gym memberships via Blue Light Card and benefits schemes
Regular health and wellbeing initiatives
Career growth
Strong commitment to CPD, training and professional development
Time off & flexibility
25 days’ annual leave, increasing with service
Buy and sell holiday scheme
Everyday perks & exclusive discounts
Blue Light Card and employee discount platform
Exclusive discounts at The Springs, Leeds
25% off health & beauty purchases
25% off Pharmacy2U Private Online Doctor services
Culture & community
Regular social events throughout the year
What you’ll be doing?
Own and operate the end‑to‑end marketing compliance operating model, including campaign intake, risk triage, review, approval, documentation and audit trail
Design and maintain a risk‑tiered triage framework with clear service levels, decision rights, escalation routes, and documented rationales for compliance decisions
Embed PECR‑compliant, consent‑led direct marketing governance across CRM channels (email, SMS, push, in‑app), working closely with CRM and data teams to ensure appropriate consent logic, suppression, objection handling and evidence retention
Establish and maintain clear guardrails distinguishing service versus marketing communications, supported by decision trees, examples, and approved language
Apply UK GDPR controls to marketing targeting, segmentation and profiling, with particular focus on health inference, special category data risk, transparency obligations, and automated decision‑making considerations
Provide expert advice on CAP Code and ASA advertising compliance, including claims substantiation, responsible healthcare messaging, misleadingness risk and vulnerable audiences
Own sector‑specific healthcare advertising compliance, applying MHRA, Blue Guide and NHS‑related rules, with clear escalation and sign‑off for higher‑risk materials (e.g. medicines‑related or condition‑specific communications)
Ensure effective cross‑functional alignment between marketing, clinical governance and compliance teams so that clinical claims, safety messaging and risk statements are accurate, approved and consistently applied
Set and enforce compliance standards for agencies, affiliates and partners, including onboarding requirements, contractual guardrails, ongoing assurance and remediation of recurring issues
Drive training, monitoring and continuous improvement, delivering role‑based training, running audits and sampling, supporting complaints or escalations, and reporting on risks, trends, improvements and KPIs to senior stakeholders
Who are we looking for?
Significant hands‑on experience in marketing or advertising compliance, privacy‑in‑marketing, or a closely related regulatory‑facing role
Proven experience reviewing and enabling multi‑channel marketing campaigns, including CRM (email/SMS/push/in‑app), paid media/social, website content, and affiliates or partnerships
Strong practical knowledge of PECR as applied to electronic direct marketing, including consent, soft opt‑in, suppression and objection handling
Applied understanding of UK GDPR in marketing contexts, particularly lawfulness, fairness, transparency, data minimisation and purpose limitation
Experience managing profiling, targeting and segmentation risk, with a strong grasp of health inference and special category data considerations
Solid working knowledge of CAP Code / ASA advertising standards, especially claims substantiation and responsible healthcare messaging
Experience operating within regulated or high‑scrutiny sectors, ideally healthcare, pharmacy, financial services, insurance or similar environments
Track record of improving speed to market and reducing rework, through playbooks, templates, training and effective intake or approval models
Experience managing agencies, affiliates or third‑party vendors, including compliance onboarding, guardrails and ongoing assurance
Ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, practical guidance that supports marketing teams while managing regulatory and reputational risk
Applicants must prove they have the right to live in the UK.
All successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check.
Unsolicited agency applications will be treated as a gift.
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- Location:
- Leeds
- Job Type:
- PartTime