Marketing Lead - FTC until Feb 2027 in Milton Keynes

Contract type/Duration: Fixed Term (Until February 2027)

Working hours: Full time (9-day Fortnight companywide)

Band: 2.2

Salary: £41,555 - £54,171 (depending on office location and proven ability)

Reports to: Marketing Manager

Location: Milton Keynes/London (minimum of two days a week in the office. You can do more than two days if preferable)

Internal Job Code: RC206F

Closing date: 9am on the 12th January 2026

Recruiter Interviews: Week commencing 18th January

Panel Interviews: Week commencing 22nd January 2026

We are looking for a highly organised, hands-on Marketing Lead (fixed term) with a strong emphasis on marketing project management and end-to-end campaign delivery. Reporting to the Marketing Manager, you will be the engine behind our marketing campaigns, responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing activity across the full marketing mix, from social media and email marketing to events coordination and basic website updates. This role is ideal for a marketing generalist who enjoys variety and thrives in a delivery-focused environment.

This is a pivotal conduit role, bridging internal business lines and specialist execution teams (Events, Content, and Project), ensuring marketing activity is aligned, well-coordinated, and delivered to a high standard. As the primary driver of operational excellence, you will own the full lifecycle of marketing initiatives, from strategic planning through to execution and optimisation. You are not only a marketer, but a delivery lead who ensures campaigns are executed on time, within budget, and with measurable impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Marketing strategy & planning
• Develop and own marketing plans aligned with project objectives and wider business and growth goals
• Work closely with project owners to understand roadmaps and translate project impact into clear, compelling messaging across the marketing mix (e.g. email, video, podcast, digital, events)
• Represent the voice of the customer, ensuring communications reflect real market needs and audience insight
• Build content plans and manage content production across channels and audiences, ensuring consistency with overall marketing and communications strategy
• Plan integrated campaigns across relevant channels (content, email, digital, product marketing, events)
• Manage timelines, budgets, and dependencies to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery
• Hands-on marketing execution
• Personally execute marketing activity, including:
• Campaign setup and delivery
• Messaging and content development (briefing, reviewing, editing)
• Channel management (email, website, landing pages, paid activity where applicable)
• Work closely with design, content teams, and external agencies to deliver high-quality outputs
• Define success metrics for campaigns and initiatives, track performance, and report on results
• Optimise campaigns and plans based on data, insight, and feedback
• Project & stakeholder management
• Act as the central point of coordination across marketing, content and PR, project teams, sales, design, and external agencies or vendors, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery of marketing activity
• Align stakeholders on objectives, priorities, timelines, and execution plans
• Support stakeholder management for marketing deliverables, ensuring clear communication, approvals, and delivery in collaboration with external clients
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies, blockers, and changes
• Undertake any other reasonable duties required to support the Catapult’s strategic outcomes and effective business operations

Required Competencies

• Proven experience in a hands-on marketing role with end-to-end campaign ownership
• Strong ability to develop and execute practical, results-focused marketing plans
• Demonstrated experience working across cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong project management, organisation, and prioritisation skills
• Data-informed mindset with a focus on continuous improvement

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.

Employment here is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law. We also make all reasonable accommodations to meet our obligations under laws protecting the rights of the disabled.

At Connected Places Catapult, we are on a mission to create better connected places across the UK and beyond. We believe that innovation is the key to unlocking the potential of our towns, cities, and transport systems, making them more sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous for everyone.

When connected places work, it benefits:

• People: wellbeing, access and inclusion for everyone.
• Planet: sustainable and increasingly regenerative living and moving.
• Prosperity: prosperous local economies and trade.

From supporting SMEs to develop clean transport technologies to helping local authorities unlock innovation in public procurement, our work is making a tangible difference. We help businesses secure millions in investment, create jobs, and drive forward solutions that address climate change, social isolation, and economic inequality.