Marketing Executive

At Smart Energy GB, we aim to engage and communicate with our diverse nation about the smart meter rollout across England, Scotland, and Wales. We are an independent organisation set up by the government to deliver the national public engagement campaign, raise awareness of smart meters and drive adoption of this technology in everyone's homes. Smart meters are essential building blocks in the creation of a cleaner, greener energy system for the future.

We are looking for a highly organised, collaborative Marketing Executive, who has a keen interest in Marketing and is motivated to learn across multiple disciplines, to join us in our London office! You will support the planning, development and execution of nationwide, multi‑audience campaigns across a variety of channels, including paid media, digital, social, and brand activity. Working with both internal stakeholders and external agency partners, you will help ensure campaigns are effectively coordinated, optimised and delivered to achieve the best possible results.

Key tasks / responsibilities

• Coordinating the raising of POs across marketing teams and ensuring invoices are processed accurately and on time
• Supporting the collation of quarterly campaign updates for key energy supplier stakeholders
• Coordinating feedback on presentations and smaller media plans including PR activations on social, while organising status and agency meetings to ensure the right stakeholders are engaged
• Providing campaign delivery support through key administrative tasks, including briefing support, asset reviews, measurement study co‑ordination
• Assisting with ongoing digital activity, including dashboard management, media monitoring using BrandWatch, trend analysis and AI search tracking
• Managing inputs from internal teams and external partners for regular campaign reporting, and helping share performance insights with wider stakeholders
• Keep abreast of media industry developments and changes, identifying new opportunities for Smart Energy GB where relevant
• Working as a team with other members of the Smart Energy GB team to ensure alignment and integration of campaigns

Skills, experience and competencies

Essential

• 2+ years relevant experience
• Previous involvement in major communication campaigns at a media or creative agency, or an in‑house marketing team, with an understanding of the media planning and creative production process
• Experience of managing finance processes either via agency or an in‑house marketing team
• Proactive, able to work both autonomously, and also as part of a team
• Detail orientated, organised, and able to juggle a variety of projects in a fast‑paced environment against tight deadlines
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (verbal/written)
• Appreciation of the objectives and activities of Smart Energy GB
• Appreciate the diversity of the people and communities of Great Britain and embrace this diversity in your approach to work

Desirable

• Ability to compile clear and compelling briefs, and have experience of briefing and managing external
• Skilled at stakeholder management
• Experience at managing projects from concept through to completion
• Experience using digital reporting, monitoring or analytics tools

Diversity

Smart Energy GB is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We use data to measure the effectiveness of our attraction and selection methods to ensure that they are fair and equitable and that opportunities at Smart Energy GB are accessible to people from all backgrounds. We actively encourage applications from currently under‑represented groups. We have identified ethnic minority, lower socioeconomic backgrounds, disability and gender as the key areas we would like to focus our recruitment efforts.

What do we do to promote diversity and inclusion at Smart Energy GB?

We aim to include at least one candidate from each group in the shortlist for the next stage of the recruitment process, subject to consent, where candidates from ethnic minority and lower socio‑economic backgrounds meet the selection criteria for the role.

Rooney Rule

We are building a team that is able to understand the needs of and effectively communicate with the whole of our diverse nation. We want our team to reflect the diversity of the wider population, in terms of the representation of people from ethnic minority and lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

Disability

All disabled applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the job as set out in the job description will be guaranteed an interview if consent is given for this data to be considered at the shortlisting stage. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to make our interview process or working environment more inclusive and to meet your particular needs. Our offices have full wheelchair access.