Marketing Communications Executive

The role

• You will support the creation and delivery of marketing communications plans for the programmes we deliver for clients, including government, combined and local authorities and other organisations.

• You will liaise with internal and external stakeholders to ensure marketing activity is delivered on brand, on time and within budget.

• You will contribute to the growth and development of our marketing activities.

• You will actively measure the impact of our campaign activity and support with the reporting of appropriate marketing metrics, ensuring learnings from previous campaigns inform future activity.

The team

You will join the Marketing Services team which is made up of around 20 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 colleagues in our Marketing, Digital and Technology centre of excellence 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

• You will create and deliver campaign activity to support the achievement of strategy objectives.

• You’ll work across the whole range of the marketing mix including (but not limited to) social media, SEO, digital advertising, content creation, email marketing and print collateral.

• You will build and maintain strong relationships with and provide expert marketing guidance and advice to programme stakeholders.

What you will bring

Essential:

• Excellent communication skills including a demonstrable ability to write clearly for different audiences, and to manage and adapt content for digital and offline channels

• Results-orientated with an excellent eye for detail

• Experience in developing, executing, tracking and analysing multi-channel marketing campaigns to achieve specific objectives

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, managing and prioritising your own workload and always delivering on time and to budget

• Experience of digital marketing strategies including SEO, paid search, paid social media and email marketing

• Experience in managing competing priorities of internal and external stakeholders including colleagues, agencies and suppliers

Desirable:

• Experience of using website content management systems such as Drupal, WordPress etc.

• Experience of using creative and editing software such as Canva, Adobe, Biteable

• Numerical skills including budget management

Please submit an anonymised CV and cover letter, removing your name, address, email address, and any other identifying details.

Who we are

Energy Saving Trust is a leading and trusted organisation, dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, low carbon transport and sustainable energy use. We aim to address the climate emergency and deliver the wider benefits of clean energy as we transition to net zero.

At Energy Saving Trust we don’t just offer jobs – we offer careers. For our people, being part of the effort to address the climate emergency makes working for us truly meaningful and rewarding.

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.

Want to know more about how we make flexibility real? Check out our Benefits and Culture page

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 [email protected] 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. Find out more here.

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

Please note, that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post. To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK