Marketing and Communications Manager

£40,000-£44,000 per annum (depending on experience)

The role leads on the design and delivery of effective, innovative, multi-channel marketing and communications campaigns to achieve programme objectives. Responsibilities include line management, oversight of multiple programmes and supporting the growth of the team’s wider marketing capabilities.

You will join the Marketing Services team which is made up of around 25 colleagues based across the UK. We deliver high-quality marketing and communications activity for our clients across a range of programmes, from energy advice to households to low-carbon travel support for businesses and local authorities. The Marketing Services team works with other Marketing, Digital and Technology colleagues to design, deliver and continuously improve our products and services to delight our customers and exceed our business goals. We work in an increasingly agile way, and we are customer‑centric, product‑orientated and data‑driven in all that we do.

You’ll get access to a rich array of professional development opportunities in this role. This includes company‑wide offers, such as coaching, project management and leadership training, as well as specialist marketing and communications skills development organised by our in‑house ‘champions’. We also cover professional membership costs (such as the Chartered Institute of Marketing) as a staff benefit.

What You Will Do

• Lead on the development and implementation of strategic marketing and communications activity to promote specific programmes and projects.
• Work with programme teams, senior managers and external stakeholders and funders to ensure the planning, implementation and delivery of marketing and communications activity achieves programme objectives and KPIs, and is delivered on time, within budget and to a high standard.
• Manage a team and develop your direct reports to deliver high-quality marketing.
• Manage external stakeholder and contractor relationships and ensure relationships are effective and collaborative.

What You Will Bring

• Proven experience of marketing communications management, with success in creative and cutting‑edge campaign development and implementation that is data‑driven and audience‑centred.
• Demonstrable experience across the marketing mix such as managing websites, data collection systems, social media channels, advertising, PR, events collateral and digital content creation.
• Experience of supervising, mentoring or line managing staff.
• Confident written communication skills, including editing and proof‑reading with attention to detail.
• Experience of using data to drive continuous improvement, including using insights audience segmentation/research, digital analytics and reporting to optimise and target campaign activity.

Work where you thrive

At Energy Saving Trust, flexibility isn’t just a policy, it’s how we work. Most of our roles can be done remotely, and many of our people choose to work from home full‑time. Prefer an office environment? We have welcoming spaces in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cardiff and Hadleigh for those who want to connect in person.

We’ll Support You With

• Generous holiday (25 days + bank holidays + extra Christmas leave)
• True flexibility in how and where you work
• Strong pension & life assurance
• Enhanced family leave
• Green travel perks (EV scheme, cycle to work)
• Professional development support
• Yearly wellbeing allowance

These are just some of the benefits we offer.

Reasonable adjustments

We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive of and accessible for everyone. If you think you may need additional support or reasonable adjustments made to any part of the recruitment process, please get in touch with recruitment@est.org.uk or call reception on +44 (0)20 7222 0101. We will do our very best to support you.

Diversity and inclusion

Energy Saving Trust is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace where everyone can be themselves, with support to be their best. We strongly encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with Energy Saving Trust. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and we ringfence a minimum number of interview slots for candidates who apply via the Disability Confident scheme and meet the criteria for a role.

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications. We can’t provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.