The Opportunity
This tech business is very busy and needs a talented person to champion all marketing initiatives. The ideal candidate will already have a portfolio of stories and results to talk about. She/he/they will be enthusiastic and continually improving their tradecraft.
Essential skills & experience
The ideal candidate will have:
- Proven track record of creating and running campaigns
- Strong physical marketing skills (i.e. networking, expos, events)
- Digital marketing skills – e.g. blogs, LI posts, webinars, podcasts
- Experienced in content creation – creative writing about tech
- Ideally a creative personality (yellow) but equally can focus (be blue, analytical) when they need to be
- Extrovert
- Excellent written and presentation skills
- Networking and event lover – we love big expos like Farnborough Airshow and Security & Policing, and Public Security Expos in Belgium, Italy, Holland and France
- Loves tech – forget PowerPoint, you will be showcasing software demos about space, cyber and GIS maps, in 3D and real-time tracking of vehicles and satellites!
- Bid writing and producing quotes (dead easy in Xero)
- No, you won’t be cold calling
The MD is really busy and would welcome someone to sift through the ever-filling tenders inbox. This would be most welcome and there are ‘nuggets’ in this inbox going unread! Plenty to get stuck into from day one.
Desirable skills
- Willing to learn more digital skills (e.g. video product, podcasts, webinars)
- Willing to run webinars (we’re new to these so we’re learning too)
- Keen to present the company’s capabilities and case studies at industry events – we will coach you and practice, and then practice, …
- Willing to travel within UK and USA, Europe and Middle East – Well not today, but soon we will go venturing out abroad again
- Ideally speaks some French/German/Italian just for politeness when we’re abroad
- Tender writing – occasionally we partner up with other businesses to bid for larger programmes of work (see comment above about burgeoning tenders inbox)
- Heard of Agile phrases such as Sprints, Scrums, Epics, Features and User Stories – if not we will train you up with the essentials, so that you know how the teams deliver business value
Job description
Create, own and deliver the marketing plan, which support the company’s business objectives
Increase inbound leads – we don’t sell and we don’t have any sales people, we just need good quality inbound leads
Working Hours
The company offers flexible working. Currently the team are working remotely, and soon will return to 2-3 days per week in office based team working.
Salary
£25,000 – £45,000 plus numerous benefits, all based on experience
Contract length
Full-time contract, but could be 4 days per week or 4-5 shorter days – If you really are the ideal candidate we will make this work for you.
Start date
As soon as you want to join us. Yes, that could be tomorrow.
