Marketing & Communications Manager

We're looking for a Marketing & Communications Manager to join our newly formed Communications and Marketing Infrastructure team.  You'll play a key role in driving brand awareness for Kier Infrastructure, leading on our awards and events programme. Partnering with senior leaders, you'll create and deliver marketing & communications strategies that enhance our reputation and support work-winning activities. This position requires travel across site and locations.

Location: Nationwide – travel required with some remote working

Hours: Permanent Fulltime 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 per annum + private healthcare + £5.9k car allowance + benefits

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role

What will you be responsible for?

As a Marketing & Communications Manager, working as part of our communications and marketing team, you'll collaborate with sector specialists to deliver our awards and events programme, plan and deliver integrated campaigns across our key markets, supporting our work‑winning activity and strengthening the Kier brand.

Your day to day will include:

• Leading on our awards submissions across the Infrastructure business division
• Coordinating our events programme, including our key messaging and organisation at external events to maximise visibility

• Working with the team to develop and deliver targeted campaigns with clear metrics and outcomes, including paid-for social campaigns
• Building relationships with key stakeholders across the business and industry
• Line managing a marketing coordinator while collaborating with the wider marketing team

What are we looking for?

This role of Marketing & Communications Manager is great if you:

• Have a proven track record of submitting successful entries and winning recognised industry awards

• Proven experience of organising external events, including identifying key speaking opportunities for us to take part in
• Are experienced developing and delivering effective marketing campaigns with measurable results
• Can demonstrate the ability to achieve measurable business results through the effective use of digital marketing tools, including email automation and social media

• Proven experience influencing business leaders, with the confidence to network effectively and build strong, trusted relationships with colleagues and stakeholders at all level

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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