Head of External Communications and Media

UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 7 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and steer brand strategy and communications, collaborating with leaders and agencies to deliver high-quality campaigns while leveraging data to improve customer journeys.

  • Define and manage brand strategy, tone of voice, and voice of the customer across all external communications
  • Lead campaigns, events, digital content, and social communications that build engagement and trust
  • Influence Executive and Board-level stakeholders and manage external agencies

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and manage brand strategy, tone of voice, and voice of the customer across all external communications
  • Ensure communications are consistent, accessible, and mapped to customer journeys
  • Lead campaigns, events, digital content, and social communications that build engagement and trust
  • Collaborate with senior leaders and manage external agencies to deliver high-quality campaigns
  • Maintain governance frameworks and use data and insight to drive continuous improvement
  • Participation on Emergency Controller standby rota

Requirements

  • Senior leadership in brand, marketing, events, or customer communications
  • Strong digital, social media, and campaign experience
  • Excellent written, editorial, and presentation skills
  • Experience influencing Executive and Board-level stakeholders
  • Passion for customers, sustainability, and organisational purpose

Preferred

  • Understanding of customer journeys in service-based organisations
  • Experience in regulated environments (e.g. Ofwat)
  • Track record of delivering large-scale campaigns and managing agencies
  • Strategic thinking and creativity with attention to detail
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills
  • Confident using data and insight to guide decisions
  • Ability to mobilise teams to deliver ambitious results

Benefits

  • Car allowance
  • Minimum 2 days per week in our Hatfield office
  • Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
  • Entry into the Senior Manager bonus scheme.
  • Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
  • A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
  • A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
  • We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
  • Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
  • Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
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Affinity Water

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Our vision is to be the leading community-focused water company.Water is essential for life so the service we provide is vital for the customers we serve – this is a very special responsibility. We are the largest water-only supplier in the UK, delivering more than 940 million litres of safe, high quality drinking water to our 3.6 million customers each and every day! In order to do this brilliantly we need really special people on our team. So if you have a passion for achievement, set sky-high personal standards, want to work in a great environment and love delivering great service for customers you should think seriously about joining us.

Founded in 2012
Hatfield, England, GBR
1.1K employees (36 in marketing)
1% recommend to a friend
1% CEO approval

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
36 (3% of company)
Median Tenure
2.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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Monthly Visitors
907.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.5%
Direct
49.6%
Referral
7.8%
Social
3.5%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.1K

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Head of External Communications and Media

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