Marketing & Communications Director at Connected Places Catapult | London, UK | £98K/yr – £110K/yr

Connected Places Catapult

Marketing & Communications Director

London, UK (Hybrid)

£98K/yr – £110K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own cross‑branding and demand engine for a B2B audience, coordinating strategy, governance and data across marketing, communications and events.

Strategy & People: set marketing and comms direction; lead a multi‑disciplinary team; align plans with business goals.
Data & Audiences: govern CRM data, API integrations, and campaign measurement with dashboards to drive data‑led decisions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Strategy - Develop and oversee delivery of our organisation marketing, communications and events strategy to develop our reputation and grow business with key target audiences.
- Collaborate with Senior Leadership and Management colleagues to ensure departmental plans align with business unit strategies.
- Play an active role in the development of organisational strategy and corporate plan.
People Leadership - Play a visible and proactive role in organisational leadership, role modelling inclusion and our values of respect, accountability, purpose and curiosity.
- Leadership of a multi-disciplinary department and line management of senior team including [insert roles].
- Driving high performance, collaboration and a dynamic and proactive approach
- Nurturing a culture of professional learning within the department to develop, enhance and share skills.
Functional leadership - Provide strategic oversight across the marketing and communications mix including marketing, events, external channels and content production and internal communications.
- Provide guidance and support for Heads of and wider team to shape marketing strategies for business units and ensure successful delivery of operational plans, to time and within budget.
Brand and value proposition - Champion and evolve our brand and external positioning to ensure we remain prominent and relevant to our audiences. Overall accountability for the use of our brand and quality of our owned outputs.

Requirements

Extensive B2B marketing and communications experience - delivering impactful multi-channel campaigns that deliver growth for a business or organisation. With deep knowledge of SEO, PPC, social media, email marketing, and content strategy.
A strong track record of functional leadership experience - leading high performing, multi-disciplinary communications and marketing teams at a senior level.
Proven people leadership experience – leading, mentoring, and managing teams to drive performance, accountability, collaboration and learning.
Experience of working in a partner ecosystem - ideally with central government departments or arm’s length bodies and communicating with government and civil service audiences.
Experience in an organisational leadership role - collaborating with and influencing peers and senior leaders to achieve shared goals.
Budgeting & Financial Acumen - experience of profit and loss (P&L) responsibility and optimising campaign spend for maximum ROI.
Keen to understand your personal strengths and development areas, undertake and reflect upon feedback opportunities and share insights and learnings gained to encourage open feedback channels.
Aware of your surroundings, understands the complexities of social interactions, and manages all relationships astutely. You will tap into collective intelligence, sense the underlying patterns and trends, and harness them to innovate. Understanding that innovation is not just about ideas but also about people and their collaborative efforts.
Understand the networks and relationships you build are key to organisational success, you will use effective relationship building to become a trusted adviser, partner and collaborator, understanding the needs of your network to offer solutions and support.
Question the status quo, challenges conventional wisdom, and empowers your people to develop innovative solutions that give you an edge.
Channel energy from conflict towards constructive debates, promoting a culture of 'innovative disagreements'. Facilitates the process where everyone feels heard, fostering an environment of trust and collaboration, ultimately leading to breakthrough solutions.
Skilled in driving significant organisational change - in strategies, processes, and mindsets. Implementing effective programmatic approach to ensure successful change delivery.
Lead with strong decision-making ability to make informed choices and values led judgements, amidst the uncertainty and ambiguity that can be part of innovation.
Balance risks with potential rewards, making the 'right bets' and having the courage to pivot when those bets don't pay off.
Understand the organisation, and the market in which we operate to drive growth and create commercial opportunities for CPC expertise and networks to maximise value.
Drive inclusion and sustainability as organisational imperatives upholding all aspects of policies, responsible for equalities impact assessment assurance, delivering on our, and ensuring inclusion and sustainability are a reference point in all aspects of CPC’s work.
Articulate a compelling vision, align it with the organization's mission, and share it with the team. The vision is a 'north star' that guides innovative efforts, helping everyone understand how their contributions fit into the bigger picture.
Empower teams, fostering an environment of psychological safety where people feel comfortable sharing ideas. Role modelling resilience and self-care in times of challenge and change.
Understand that innovation isn't a one-time event but a continual process skill in nurturing a culture of continuous learning, encourage experimentation, accept failures as stepping stones, and ensure that innovation becomes part of the organisation's DNA.
Use professional insight, networks and scenario planning to develop strategic plans that reflect the bigger picture to ensure success in evolving landscapes.

Nice to have

Benefits

9 day fortnight for everyone, every other Friday.
23.5 holiday entitlement for everyone, with pro-rata calculations for part-time employees, along with a Christmas shutdown period for additional days off.
Competitive pension, up to 10% company contribution to help you save for your future.
Two paid days of volunteering leave per year (pro-rata for part-time employees) to support charitable activities.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providing 24/7 confidential work/life support services to you and your immediate family members.
Cycle to Work Scheme encouraging a healthy and sustainable commute.
Cash Health Plan, offering reimbursement for a wide range of essential and everyday healthcare expenses, promoting your well-being.
Payroll Giving scheme, allowing regular charitable contributions from pre-tax income, maximizing the impact of your donations.
Discounts and offers from a wide variety of retailers , enhancing your purchasing power and providing savings opportunities.
Mortgage Advice benefit, delivered in partnership with Charles Cameron & Associates – provides employees with free, expert mortgage advice and end-to-end mortgage support from the application process through to completion.

Connected Places Catapult

3.5 Glassdoor

Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership.We provide impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel. We connect businesses and public sector leaders to cutting-edge research to spark innovation and grow new markets. We run technology demonstrators and SME accelerators to scale new solutions that drive growth, spread prosperity, and reduce carbon emissions.

Founded in 2019

London, England, GBR

326 employees (41 in marketing)

cp.catapult.org.uk

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