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🇬🇧 Marketing Manager CV keywords the ATS is scanning for (UK)

Most UK employers — including the NHS, councils, and every major retailer and agency — run applications through an ATS (applicant tracking system) that scores your CV against the job advert before any human reads it. If your CV doesn't contain the right marketing manager keywords, you're filtered out automatically — no matter how good you are. Here are the terms that matter, and a free way to check your CV against the exact job you want.

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Keywords UK employers filter marketing managers by

These are the terms that appear most often in UK marketing manager job adverts — and therefore the terms applicant tracking systems are configured to score:

campaign managementdigital marketing strategySEO / SEMcontent marketingGoogle Analytics (GA4)paid social (Meta, LinkedIn ads)email marketing / CRMmarketing automation (HubSpot, Marketo)brand managementbudget ownershipROI / CPA / ROASA/B testingmarket researchstakeholder managementproduct launchessocial media strategyconversion rate optimisationteam leadership

Important: never paste keywords in blindly. The filter ranks context, and interviewers check claims. Add only what you've genuinely done — the free scan below shows which of these the specific job you want actually asks for, so you don't guess.

How to get a marketing manager CV past the ATS

Numbers first: budget managed, ROAS, pipeline sourced, growth % — marketing CVs without metrics fail both filters.
Name platforms exactly: GA4, HubSpot, Meta Ads Manager, Semrush — tool filters are aggressive in marketing.
Match the discipline in the advert: "demand generation" vs "brand marketing" vs "growth" are separate keyword families.
Show the full funnel: strategy → execution → measurement, one line each per campaign.
Include team/agency management scope if any — a common seniority filter.
UK conventions: no photo, no date of birth, 2 pages max, include a short personal statement at the top.

Questions marketing managers ask

My results are hard to attribute — what do I quantify?

Whatever you truthfully own: budget size, campaigns shipped, audience growth, engagement lift, leads generated. Ranges are fine if honest.

CV or portfolio?

CV for the ATS, portfolio linked as a plain URL for the humans. The ATS only ever reads the CV.

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