Marketing & Communications Lead (maternity cover) in Lewes

Fixed term for one year to cover maternity leave. Ideally 30 hours per week, but open to other options. Location: Lewes, East Sussex. Flexible hybrid working, ideally spending at least 2 days per week in the office. Weekly face-to-face team meetings on Tuesdays. Reporting to: Head of Business Development & Growth.

Responsibilities

• Content planning and production
  • Own all aspects of the content strategy and lead on its implementation.
  • Produce the monthly Plain Numbers Insights newsletter, including writing and commissioning pieces, tracking key metrics and increasing subscribers.
  • Develop engaging content for the website, including news articles, case studies, and thought leadership pieces. Content formats include written, video and graphics.
  • Create and manage LinkedIn posts for the company page and support stakeholders with posts on personal profiles to establish thought leadership and subject matter expertise.
  • Work with the partnerships team and external collaborators to generate content.
  • Track and analyse metrics to measure impact and refine plans accordingly.
• Partnership support
  • Engage with contacts in partner organisations to identify and execute co-marketing opportunities (e.g., case studies, testimonials, research).
  • Build strong relationships with new partners to celebrate the Plain Numbers partnership.
  • Collaborate with the partnerships team to identify and capitalise on communications opportunities.
  • Support Plain Numbers Community events with promotion and organisation.
• Brand awareness and development
  • Develop and implement activities to enhance brand visibility and reputation.
  • Identify speaking opportunities, content sharing and opinion pieces with sector partners (trade associations and membership groups).
  • Collaborate with the management team to integrate marketing needs into company planning and strategy.
  • Measure success through KPIs such as engagement, followers, subscribers, views and downloads.
• Website management
  • Maintain and update the website as a central hub for brand awareness and lead generation.
  • Lead website improvement projects, manage third parties, budgets and timelines.
  • Plan and execute external webinars; develop content with management and staff.
  • Build a promotional plan to drive registrations and attendance, with post-event reporting and follow-up.
  • Work with the sales team to track webinar-generated leads and pipeline progress.
• Capture and promote evidence of impact
  • Develop and maintain a portfolio of case studies; publish evidence of impact across LinkedIn, the website and email newsletter.

Person specification

• You will be: Comfortable with a mix of thinking, doing and stakeholder management; responsible for strategy and delivery.
• Able to demonstrate high EQ, working with and advising colleagues including leadership, partners and stakeholders.
• A high-agency colleague capable of managing a varied workload with limited direction.
• Great with people and able to build strong relationships internally and externally.
• A project manager who combines creativity with execution and insight.
• No prior knowledge of the Plain Numbers Method is required, but the candidate should be keen to learn and develop this knowledge.

Essential Skills and Experience

• B2B marketing in consultancy, L&D or related fields
• Prior experience in a start-up or scale-up environment
• Content planning, creation, execution and repurposing
• LinkedIn for business and thought leadership
• Copywriting and editing
• Use of AI tools to support creativity, productivity and analysis

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience in account-based marketing
• Marketing automation to build lifecycles and journeys
• Basic video production and editing

Benefits and remuneration

• Salary based on a full-time equivalent of £36,750
• 25 days paid holiday per year (pro rata where relevant) plus Bank Holidays
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme with 5% employer contributions
• Group life insurance and income protection
• Private health insurance (post probation)
• Corporate health cashplan (post probation)
• Enhanced family pay
• Professional development opportunities and flexible working

Equal opportunity statement

Plain Numbers is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and will consider reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process and beyond. We actively encourage applicants from marginalised groups.

How to apply

To apply, submit a CV and covering letter via our recruitment portal. We will not accept applications without a covering letter. Include what you find most interesting about our work, or the findings of our research, and refer to the job description and person specification in your application.

For an informal conversation to learn more about Plain Numbers and this role, contact our Director of Finance & Operations, Diane Hume, at diane@plainnumbers.org.uk.

Closing date: 16 January 2026. Initial interviews likely to take place in the week of 26 January 2026. Plain Numbers reserves the right to change the closing date or withdraw this opportunity.

Our vision: To enable clearer communication of numbers everywhere, so that people can better understand the choices they face in life.

Our mission: We enable people to better understand information from organisations by supporting partner organisations to integrate the Plain Numbers Method into their communications to improve customer understanding.

Our values

• Changemakers – drive tangible change to enable partners to improve customer understanding.
• Collaborators – work in partnership in a friendly, creative, inclusive way.
• Innovators – bring fresh approaches to communications while maintaining quality.