Marketing & Communications Manager - FTC

Belfast, UK (Hybrid)

£42K/yr – £48K/yrMid LevelContract

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross region marketing execution and event program delivery with a focus on Northern Ireland, building content and campaigns that align to programme goals.

  • Own planning and delivery of campaigns and events for key audiences, including hybrid formats.
  • Lead content output across written, video, and digital content to support the programme and brand consistency.
  • Collaborate across internal teams and external partners to keep activities on track and aligned to KPIs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage end-to-end marketing planning and campaign delivery.
  • Lead marketing activities for events to reach key audiences and manage events in-person and/or online on the day, including large scale showcase events and demo days.
  • Manage content delivery – draft written content, manage production of video content, and produce digital content to support programme delivery.
  • Build successful working collaborations with internal teams and a range of external partners.
  • Support our UK Digital Twin Centre Community Manager to ensure content is on brand and aligned to programme, and wider Digital Catapult, messaging.
  • Work with senior leaders in Northern Ireland to provide advice and input into programme deliverables and ensure marketing and communications activities remain on schedule and aligned to KPIs.

Requirements

  • Strong and relevant marketing and/or communication experience.
  • Strong writing and editing skills.
  • Previous experience delivering events (in-person, online and hybrid).
  • Confident stakeholder relationship management skills.
  • Proactive and pragmatic approach to delivery with a solution-oriented outlook.
  • Strong analytical skills and understanding of key marketing tools including Google Analytics and Salesforce.

Preferred

  • Experience using Canva, Mailchimp and WordPress desirable.
  • Experience working in the technology, energy, aerospace or defence sectors is preferred, but not essential.

Benefits

  • We are in the UK’s Top 100 Best Workplaces and placed in the UK’s Best Workplaces in Tech and Large Organisations.
  • Digital Catapult is a Disability Confident Committed Level 1 Employer.
  • Excellent holiday package: 25 days annual leave, Bank Holidays and 3 days between Christmas and New Year
  • Double-matched pension up to 10% of your salary
  • Discretionary company bonus
  • 4% of your salary to use towards selecting benefits that work for you, including health cash plan, Private Medical Insurance; buying holiday, topping up your pension
  • E-Vehicle Scheme; Cycle2Work; Tech Scheme; Gym Discounts; Give As you Earn; PerkPal
  • Life insurance 4x salary
  • Free to access EAP & Financial Wellbeing advice
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
  • Hybrid working - with great offices to work from 2 days per week with some roles needing to be onsite more regularly to ensure the successful delivery of our work
  • Investment in your ongoing learning and development with us
  • Company social events throughout the year and free office snacks!
  • We have a vibrant and engaging culture where all voices are heard and a variety of employee led affinity groups who champion initiatives and provide opportunities for feedback to be shared.
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Digital Catapult is a technology innovation organisation. We accelerate the practical application of deep technologies to equip the UK to be future ready.We partner with businesses, investors and academia to identify valuable opportunities and create market pathways, ensuring the UK is future ready. We enable our partners to think creatively, build resilience and grow by using our expertise to equip them with deep tech capabilities and help them adopt innovative solutions.Digital Catapult helps businesses grow by applying deep tech. We focus on significant challenges and opportunities facing the UK’s economy and society, where technology can play a major role in providing solutions.Digital Catapult is part of the Innovate UK Catapult Network. Catapults provide a unique combination of cutting-edge R&D facilities and world-class technical expertise to support UK business innovation.

Founded in 2013
London, England, GBR
318 employees (30 in marketing)
72% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
17.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.6%
Direct
27.1%
Referral
14.9%
Social
14.7%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~318

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
21 (7% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$1.4M
Last Raise
$1.4M
Grant, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2023
    Grant
  • Feb 2017
    Grant • $1.4M

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