Marketing Director

Job Title:Marketing Manager from Built Environment Sector (eg Candidate must come from Real Estate, Architecture, Law Firm with property clients, construction)

Location:London

Start Date:Mid April

Contract Duration:12 months

Role Overview: Marketing Manager or a 12-month maternity contract,reporting to the Managing Director, UK and Senior Director of Marketing, UK & Europe. Part of a small but expanding hands-on team working on projects across UK and Europe. 

Salary: £50-60k (experience dependent)

Responsibilities:

Marketing & Communications:

• Support the Senior Director of Marketing in implementing the Marketing & Communications Strategy for individual clients or projects where necessary
• Support the Senior Director of Marketing in continuing to drive the integration forward and work collaboratively with their teams
• Work closely with clients and consultants to ensure positive working relationships and a co-ordinated approach to Marketing & Communications
• Feed into Marketing budget alongside Senior Director of Marketing and Finance team
• Oversee creation of all marketing materials
• Oversee creation of press releases/news stories for print and online media and website
• Commission photography
• Manage external agencies (PR, creative, digital etc.)
• Manage relationships with industry bodies, corporate charity partners and stakeholder groups
• Coordination and management of our Thought Leadership pieces such as our Market Update

Bids:

• Working alongside Marketing Executive
• Analyse the tender document/technical staff brief to understand the needs of the client
• Planbid preparation & liaise with technical team to agree roles and responsibilities to ensure that deadlines are met
• Where necessary, prepare case studies, edit or rewrite previous tenders to reuse relevant material
• Collate materials provided by various departments and ensuring a uniform tone across the overall document
• Ensure that the bid is accurate and delivered on time.
• Assess chances and review feedback on viable bids alongside Marketing & Bid Executive

Events and Exhibitions:

• Manage all internal and external events
• Manage all approaches for sponsorship and inclusion in exhibitions/events
• Work alongside the Directors / Account directors to establish the right team for event attendance
• Coordinate presence at industry events, ensuring return on investment from sponsorships, conferences and initiatives.
• Oversee calendar of events and conferences and identify which should be attended

Awards:

• Consider submissions for Awards and assess chances of being shortlisted/winning
• Develop awards submissionsalongside Marketing Executive

Website and Social Media

• Work with the US team to ensure the UK/EMEA is well represented on the global website
• Consider possible angles for content for news pieces to help drive suitable traffic to the website
• Work alongside Marketing Executive to maintain a presence on social media sites such as LinkedIn

Internal Communications:

• Oversee all internal communications activity

• Weekly newsletter
• Briefings
• Events

Team Management:

• Act as first point of contact for Marketing Executive
• Team co-ordination
• Report to Directors meeting monthly

Person Specification/Requirements

• Excellent communication skills, combining creativity and strategic thinking, with attention to detail
• Minimum five years’ experience in a marketing role within the built environment sector
• Excellent organisation skills with the ability to work under pressure, in a fast-paced environment
• A good understanding of brand, communications and business development
• Strong writing and copywriting experience
• Strong Microsoft Suite skills, including creating Word, Excel and PowerPoint templates
• A positive can-do attitude, able to work independently and as a team
• Strong InDesign and Photoshop skills
• Experience in social media management or digital marketing
• Knowledge of CRM systems - particularly Microsoft Dynamics

Work Arrangement:

• Office basedTues-Thurs/ possibility to be hybrid (to be reviewed)