Head of External Communications and Media

Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelPermanent

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and drive brand strategy, tone of voice, and customer voice across external communications while ensuring accessibility and alignment to customer journeys. Lead cross-channel campaigns, events, and digital content to build engagement and trust, and collaborate with senior leaders and external agencies to deliver high-quality campaigns. Govern with data-driven insights and participate in Emergency Controller standby rota.

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
  • 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

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

Benefits

  • Salary circa £100,000 dependant on skills and experience
  • 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.
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Affinity Water

LUV Infinity Group is an exciting UK based umbrella company for a multitude of brands, ranging from nightclubs, bars to restaurants all over the United KingdomLUV Infinity Group has a firm Impression on the UK Nightlife and hospitality industry with our venues bringing thousands of smiles to customers faces every day since 2009; and we only continue to expand and grow today.We pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box, being innovative within our ideas & providing the best quality product across each and every diverse brand that we have created.Focusing at the heart of our business, our people; we believe a successful business begins with the people who operate it & we continually reinvent the wheel when it comes to what makes us good employers – this is what drives us.

Founded in 2009
Bristol, England, GBR
31 employees (4 in marketing)

Salaries

Communications median pay in the United Kingdom

£44K/yr

Most earn £33K to £60K. Based on 99 salaries, including bonus and equity.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (10% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
713

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
425M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$18.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.5%
Direct
31.4%
Referral
5.8%
Social
4%
Paid
5.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~31
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Head of External Communications and Media

Affinity Water · Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK · Hybrid